Elderly couple die in ‘pact’
POLICE are preparing a report for the coroner following what’s believed to be a suicide pact between an elderly married Rosebud couple. A neighbour discovered the man barely alive and the woman dead ...
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This train ride’s a scream
THE Halloween train huffed and puffed its way between Mornington and Moorooduc sidings on Sunday with hundreds of scary children dressed in their most frightening costumes. Fittingly, they were ridin...
Wrong way round in Hastings
Police were bowled over when they discovered a 75-year-old woman, who had driven the wrong way around a roundabout in Hastings, had a blood alcohol reading of more than double the legal limit. A conc...
Ulcer risks, mosquitoes on rise
VICTORIA’S mosquito plague has raised fears that the increased risk of mosquito-born diseases such as the flesh-eating Buruli ulcer – already prevalent on the Mornington Peninsula – coul...
Covenant to protect threatened species
ANOTHER piece of the Mornington Peninsula wetland and wildlife habitat in Boneo will be permanently protected after the state government reached a voluntary agreement with the owners to ensure the pr...
Chopper crew flies in with jobs advice for pupils
NAVY crews from HMAS Cerberus literally dropped in to Eastbourne Primary School last week to talk to years 5 and 6 pupils about a career in the armed forces. It was pretty exciting stuff for the youn...
Books from a different perspective
A ROSEBUD mother of two primary-school aged children with autism spectrum disorder has turned her writing skills into an educational book series designed to inform both adults and children about the ...
Dolphins saved from debts demise
FRANKSTON Dolphins Football Club will fight on and hope to be readmitted into the VFL in 2018 after creditors voted to accept partial payment for outstanding debts. Worrells, the administrators of th...
Children and hot cars don’t go together
WHO would leave a child alone in a car on a hot day? No-one would be silly enough do that, would they? Sadly, quite a few people do – and this time of year the warmer weather makes incidents even mor...
Cancer care a specialist role
FRANKSTON nurse Jenny Macindoe has one of the most difficult jobs in healthcare – that of working exclusively with people with an incurable illness. Ms Macindoe, a specialist metastatic McGrath Found...
