News
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Tasty Tunes every month
By Cam Lucadou-Wells LIVE music and food trucks are set to return to The Old Cheese Factory on a monthly basis. Buoyed by a 1000-plus…
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Rapist gets six years’ jail
By Cam Lucadou-Wells A MAN has been jailed for up to six years after showing “absolutely no remorse” for the violent rape of a stranger…
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Shopping centre’s drive-in crime
By Georgia Westgarth WESTFIELD Fountain Gate shopping centre is an easy target for car thieves and brazen robbers. The centre includes more than 6000 car…
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Man interviewed over alleged sexual assault
TRANSIT Crime Investigation Unit detectives have interviewed a man following an alleged sexual assault on a train at Narre Warren last week. The 43-year-old Narre…
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Fleet Street burglars disturbed
A NARRE Warren South resident returned home to find some of their belongings stacked up in the hallway. The female homeowner had disturbed thieves who…
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Facebook vigilance to curb crime
By Cam Lucadou-Wells IS the rise of crime-reporting Facebook pages in Casey becoming the new Neighbourhood Watch? Members are flocking onto Facebook groups such as…
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All abuzz at rural hub
By Cam Lucadou-Wells THERE’S a quiet hum of activity most days at Narre Warren North Uniting Church. Fashioned as the rural community’s hub, it is…
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Don’t hold back in this Jeep
A DRIVER of a long-unregistered Jeep seemed to have lived up to the words borne on the vehicle’s false number plates. The man had been…
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Unliked over Facebook clash
By Cam Lucadou-Wells ANDREW Hartley’s aim was to organise an apolitical crime prevention rally – but ended up in a political bunfight with Casey’s Mayor…
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Public square set to be ‘central heart’
ENDEAVOUR Hill’s public square with funky timber-floor kiosk and outdoor dining area was officially launched on 10 September. As part of the opening of the…
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Threatened with knife
A VICTIM walking along the Princes Highway in Berwick was cornered and boxed in before he was threatened with a knife. The early morning attack…
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‘Keep an eye out’
By Cam Lucadou-Wells IT’S hard to imagine a certain soap opera’s ex-stickybeak tangling with the Apex Gang, but residents were urged to find “that piece…