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CARDINIA: Info sessions for carers

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Cardinia Council is helping to organise Dementia-Friendly and Carer Gateway information sessions.This will assist ccarers of someone living with dementia, a chronic condition, or a diagnosed disease.The Council has partnered with Alfred Health Carers, Dementia Services Australia and Dementia Australia, to bring these sessions to the community.This series of sessions provides crucial and valuable information…

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CASEY: Kids Carnival

The Casey Kids Carnival will be held from 12 Noon-5pm on Saturday, Marchj 15 at the Old Cheese Factory, 34 Homestead Rd, Berwick.The day offers free activities for families, including live performers and entertainers. There are rides, interactive games, face painters, art and crafts and live animals. The event is well suited for children aged…

Emergency Services

MORNINGTON PENINSULA: Radios for rescue squads

Marine Search and Rescue units and volunteers have benefitted from the roll out of new digital radios this month to improve their communication on the water.More than $1.3 million has been spent on 130 portable radios for volunteers and to install radios on 22 vessels and in eight vehicles.This equipment has been rolled out on…

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MITCHELL: Evacuation at Assumption College Kilmore – false alarm

11.20AM Wednesday Evacuation of two buildings is taking place at Assumption College Kilmore. A College representative said: “An evacuation is currently in progress at Assumption College in the Shandon House and Fouviere Buildings only.” The college has asked the public stay tuned on its social media channels for further updates. 11.30am Update The College advises:…

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WYNDHAM: New police station for Point Cook

The Point Cook community is one step closer to receiving a new state-of-the-art police station.Anthony Carbines, Minister for Police, visited the Point Cook Homestead Rd site to mark the beginning of construction for the police station.The $25 million investment will deliver a station with modern facilities for Victoria Police – giving them the best law…

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MORNINGTON PENINSULA: Board of Inqury over McCrae landslide

A Board of Inquiry is to be held into the McCrae landslide, and its handling by the Mornington Peninsula Shire, says Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.Ms Allan says her Government wants to get to the bottom of what happened and to prevent similar incidences occurring in the future.Ms Allan Allan and Local Government Minister Nick Staikos…

Emergency Services

MURRINDINDI: Accident at Strath Creek

8.50AM WEDNESDAY Three emergency services crews are attending at a road accident at Strath Creek. Vic Emergency states the indident is “under control”. More details to come.

Emergency Services

NILLUMBIK: Hazardous chemicals incident at Diamond Creek

WEDESDAY 8.50AM Four emergency services have rushed to Collard Ave, Diamond Creek, to attend to a hazardous chemicals incident. More to come.

Police News

WEST: 7 arrested after pursuit

Police arrested seven teenagers after a pursuit in Melbourne’s West.Officers spotted an allegedly stolen white Skoda SUV driving at high speeds on Greens Rd in Wyndham Vale just after 11pm Tuesday (Feb. 4).The car was followed by Air Wing and police units on the ground through Werribee, Tarneit and Point Cook, then over the Westgate…

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KINGSTON: Armed robberies at Bentleigh, Mentone

Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit have charged a man following alleged armed robberies in Melbourne’s south on Tuesday, February 4.It is alleged two males attended a tobacco shop on Centre Rd in Bentleigh armed with a knife and demanded cigarettes about 9.25am.A male staff member sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital.The two offenders fled…