Tag: News
Crash conviction
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A MAGISTRATE has questioned why a man suffering chronic post-accident pain had a licence after his careless driving caused another driver to...
Trafficker gets corrections order
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A FIRST-TIME drug trafficker was placed on a 12-month community corrections order without conviction after police seized cannabis from his Berwick house.
Under...
DIY store scam
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
Discarded receipts cash back on stolen goods...
A WOMAN was caught defrauding a Bunnings store using discarded receipts that she collected...
Two arrested on theft charges
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
POLICE have arrested two teens accused of stealing a car and fraudulently using a stolen credit card in Pakenham in...
Refugee’s fight for rights
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
FORMER asylum seeker Hayatullah Rahimi has fled the Taliban in Afghanistan and won permanent residency in Australia, but his struggles are far...
Can-do attitude
By DANNY BUTTLER
Family charity calls for business help...
PAKENHAM businesses are being called on to help provide the basics of life for struggling...
Live baiting ‘well known’
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A STATE-COMMISSIONED report has concluded “clandestine” live baiting of greyhounds was “well known” and unlikely to have been confined to the Tooradin...
Plea to fix it now
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
MORE than 6000 people have signed an online petition for a roundabout to be built at a notorious intersection in Pearcedale.
The Robinsons...
Green tour of Turkey
By CASEY NEILL
BERWICK Rotarians opened Jenny Randle’s eyes to the working life and culture of Turkey.
The Berwick woman told the Rotary Club of Berwick...
Track’s tough test
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
A LIFE goal will soon be struck off Darren Murphy’s bucket list when he takes on the demanding 96 kilometre stretch through...
Visit’s volcanic action
CHILDREN at a Pakenham day care centre gave Shadow Minister for Families and Children Georgie Crozier a tour of the playground during her visit...
Lenscape
Tooradin at sunset. Picture:
MATT BRADFIELD