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Seventeen of Hume’s brightest students have been recognised by the Victorian Bar for academic excellence in legal studies.Each receives $1000 from the Victorian Bar Foundation and $500 from the Hume City Council.The Victorian Bar Foundation Student Achievement Award and Mentoring Program winners for 2023 are:• Jasmine Roeschmann, Roxburgh College• Komal Joshi Hume, Anglican Grammar• Aron
Purple-lidded bins are now dotting the streets of Merri-bek, as the local Council started collecting waste in its new four-stream waste service.Merri-bek is an early adopter of the service, which is mandated by the State Government for all Victorian councils by 2030.The Council says it can significantly reduce our impact on the environment and improve
Visitors will again be able to enjoy Workshops Pier in Will-iamstown’s historic maritime precinct, thanks to funding for restoration and repair works.Melissa Horne, Minister for Ports and Freight, said the $6 million package announced in the State Budget 2023/-4 would breathe new life into the pier, ensuring the local landmark can be enjoyed for generations
Brimbank Sexual Offence and Child Abuse Investigation Team detectives are investigating a sexual assault.A 12-year-old girl met up with an unknown man she had met online in the carpark of a general store on Eynesbury Rd around 10.30pm in December 2021.The pair walked to an abandoned building in the historical park, about 20 minutes away
Stonnington Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man and woman after an alleged burglary in Chadstone.Three people allegedly climbed onto the roof of a closed restaurant on Warrigal Rd and forced entry into the premises about 12.30pm.Police say they refused to come out and the officers negotiated with them, before a man and a
Hume Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating a hit-run collision in Roxburgh Park on Saturday, July 1.Investigators have been told a black Volvo entered the Roxburgh Park bus terminal off Thomas Brunton Parade about 6.50pm on July 1.Officers believe the car has began to slow when a 16-year-old girl started to cross the road at
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate Sheik Yosif. The 32-year-old is wanted on warrants in relation to contravention of a court order and assault matters. Sheik is of African appearance with a thin build, approximately 185cm tall, brown eyes and short black hair. He is known to frequent the Sunshine, Melton, Footscray
Yarra Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating an affray which occurred outside a commercial premises in Richmond on June 10.Investigators have been told two groups of men got into a verbal argument on Punt Rd about 12.45am.Two offenders then ran up to two people in the other group and punched them, starting a brawl between
Police have charged a man after he was located with a firearm in Pakenham on Monday last week (July 3).Emergency services were called to reports that a man was unresponsive on Railway Avenue about 3.40pm.They say that a firearm and drugs were found on the man and seized by Police.He was taken to hospital for
Police have charged four teenage girls after a follow in Melbourne’s northern suburbs in an allegedly stolen car in the early hours of Wednesday morning (July 5).Investigators tracked an allegedly stolen vehicle on Flemington Rd in North Melbourne about 12.30am.Police followed the car through Carlton before it came to a stop on Queensbury StFive girls
