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One night in September
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS CONFUSING and shocking – the words from a former imam at Numan Haider’s Hallam mosque aptly described one of the year’s most…
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Heart without a name
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS THE heart of Dandenong has changed forever. All it needs is a name. The $65 million civic centre, library, public square, the…
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Council’s woolly problem
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS AFTER being the subject of a protracted legal battle, Baa the sheep died at the ripe age of 17 where her owner…
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Christmas served up
SPRINGVALE RSL served up a Christmas treat for the elderly. Club members brought about 100 residents from local aged care homes to the Osborne Avenue…
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Will park go to water?
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS FIELD of dreams or a big stink? A Chinese developer’s plans for a giant theme park in Bangholme’s vast paddocks may prove…
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Driver jailed
By CASEY NEILL A TRUCK driver will spend up to five years in jail over a fatal Dandenong South train crash. Supreme Court of Victoria…
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Ice won’t melt away
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS TALK to people on all sides of this – magistrates, police, drug counsellors – there is no quick thaw to the ice…
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When the chips are down
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS THERE’S no escaping the starkest of facts. In Greater Dandenong – one of Melbourne’s most disadvantaged municipalities – each adult loses on…
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Hard luck for speeding hoons
THREE Noble Park men started the new year without their cars following holiday season hooning. Police impounded the vehicles under the state’s hoon legislation. They…
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Hunt after grass arson
AN arsonist lit a piece of paper and threw it into Noble Park grassland on a total fire ban day. A witness told police he…
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Knifeman raids bottle shop
A KNIFE-WIELDING man raided a Keysborough bottle shop on Friday 2 January. Police said he entered the 320 Cheltenham Road store about 7.15pm, walked straight…
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Arrow stabbing charges
A MAN stabbed an elderly family member with an arrow in Dandenong South last month, police allege, forcing it through his torso. Greater Dandenong CIU…
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