A GUNMAN, armed bandit, drink-drivers and speedsters have kept Frankston police busy in the lead-up to Christmas. It’s not the start to the festive season they would have liked. No one was injured when a man fired a handgun into a Frankston hotel around 10.40pm last Wednesday. Police said a man approached the door to the function area of Davey’s hotel in Nepean Highway and fired four shots before running away. The bullets penetrated a glass barrier. A woman was in a back office at the time of the incident. On Thursday, a woman driver was caught almost seven times…
Author: Stephen Taylor
AIRCRAFT-related items found by members of the public were up to 3 kilometres from the site of a light plane crash in Chelsea two months ago. They included the pilot’s flight crew licence and aviation medical certificate, aircraft pitot cover and warning flag, flight bag, En-route Supplement Australia book and a very high frequency (VHF) handheld transceiver and antenna. The items were handed in to police and forwarded to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is investigating the cause of the crash of the amateur-built Vans RV-6A on 14 October. Experienced pilot John Stephenson, 77, died when the plane crashed…
A SEAFORD resident was shocked to find only the heads of his two pet ducks when he checked on them last Tuesday morning. The brown and white ducks had their heads “twisted off” – possibly by a callous intruder – overnight and left on the lawn, while their bodies had been taken away. The ducks had been secured in a pen when attacked. Owner Shane Black, of Seaford Rd, said he was “horrified” at the find. “It was disgusting,” he said. “If it was foxes I could understand it – but if it was a cold-blooded killer people should be…
THE recent tragic death of a Mornington Peninsula child after drinking raw cow’s milk has prompted Frankston and Mornington Peninsula health officers to visit retailers suspected of selling the product. Frankston CEO Dennis Hovenden said Environmental Health team officers had attended 10 premises last week. They ranged from health food shops to specialist delis and grocers in Frankston, Karingal and Seaford. “None of the premises inspected had any brand of bath milk available for sale,” he said. “One retailer had previously sold this type of product, but confirmed it would not be sold in future due to the inherent health…
A PROUD soldier thought to be one if the last remaining ‘Rats of Tobruk’ was farewelled by his wife, friends and RSL colleagues at Gateway/Grant funerals in Chelsea Heights yesterday. Richard Charles Scales died on 3 December aged 92. He was an enthusiastic member of the Chelsea Longbeach RSL but not an advocate of war itself: “I just want to promote the memory of the 2/24th Battalion and the Rats of Tobruk,” he said when interviewed by The News two years ago (‘Remembering Charlie’s war’, The News 14/11/12). Mr Scales, who is survived by his wife, Loris, was a member…