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Midnight bin blaze
A COUNCIL bin was set on fire outside an elderly woman’s house in Dandenong last month. The woman spotted the flames from her front window…
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Building’s blue move
A PROMINENT blue building in central Dandenong might not be blue much longer. CW Cakes has moved from the 224 Lonsdale Street site to another…
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Police take a swipe at negligent car owners
OPPORTUNISTIC thieves are swiping car keys and then making off with the owner’s car at alarming rates according to police. Police have responded to a…
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Journal drop off
BUSINESSES in Dandenong South will now find it easier to get their Journal. Bulk drops into the industrial zone started on Monday 4 May. Copies…
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Budget secures train jobs
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG’S Bombardier will receive an order for 21 new train carriages from the State Government in next week’s budget, securing 64 jobs.…
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Ute owner’s grisly find
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS and LACHLAN MOORHEAD UPDATE 1.45pm THE owner of a severed finger found in a Hallam ute has come forward to police. The man aged…
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Driver injured in police van smash
THREE people have been hospitalised after a police van travelling through a red light was struck by another vehicle in Dandenong North on Thursday morning.…
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Teen crime gang arrests
UPDATE 1.51pm POLICE have charged five boys from the western suburbs following a series of armed robberies committed between 2 and 28 April. A 16-year-old…
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Principal suspended over corruption allegations
CHANDLER Park Primary School principal Peter Paul has been suspended after revelations during the state’s anti-corruption commission’s Operation Ord hearings this week. The Keysborough school…
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New home for migrant centre
By CASEY NEILL A KEY resource for refugees in the south east has a new home in central Dandenong. Southern Migrant and Refugee Centre (SMRC)…
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Trains halted after Narre Warren fatality
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS TRAIN services have been suspended on part of the Pakenham line after a person was fatally struck by a train in Narre…
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Not all are happy with ‘Harmony’
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS GREATER Dandenong Council has finally settled for Harmony Square as the name for its giant civic square but not without a note…