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$1m fire bill
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS ST COLUMBA’S Uniting Church faces a possible $1 million damage bill from a suspicious fire on 17 February. The Noble Park church’s…
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Asylum seeker fined over servo crash
AN ALCOHOL-affected unlicensed driver has claimed he fled from a Dandenong service station to find an interpreter after reversing his car into a diesel pump.…
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Dunny bandit blows it
POLICE are searching for a man who broke into a Dandenong South food outlet from the roof and stole a set of keys. But the…
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Hair away charity day
By CASEY NEILL A HAIR-RAISING event will return to Dandenong next month. Colin Gibbons’s World’s Greatest Shave event at the Dandenong Workers Social Club last…
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Custody officer’s locked in
By CASEY NEILL DODGING spit, fists and verbal abuse is all in a day’s work for custody officer Ellen Rider. The Noble Park woman worked…
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Drive against sky rail project
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS RESIDENTS in Douglas Street, Noble Park, are mobilising against the possible destruction of nearby parkland by the proposed sky rail project. Eric…
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Drug trafficking in school car park
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A MAN has pleaded guilty to trafficking after being caught with 900 prescription tranquilizer pills in a Dandenong North high school car…
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Law review to clear the way
DANDENONG will host a forum to help to shape a council shake-up. Local Government Minister Natalie Hutchins said the Local Government Act had been amended…
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Police called to church fire
UPDATE 5.25pm ST COLUMBA’S church faces a possible $1 million damage bill from a suspicious fire this morning. The Noble Park church’s kitchen and recreational…
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Early-morning break-in
A DANDENONG man disturbed an early-morning thief in his Market Street home. Greater Dandenong CIU Detective Senior Constable Bree Jarvis said the thief entered the…
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Biting pit bull sends attacker fleeing
A PIT bull has come to its owner’s rescue during a violent assault in a Dandenong home. The two victims heard a knock on the…
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Fine over truckie underpayment
UNDERPAYING three truck drivers has cost a Dandenong South transport company more than $40,000. The Federal Circuit Court penalty followed a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation…