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Tip closure call
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS SHADOW Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has called for the closure of the Taylors Road toxic waste landfill in Lyndhurst, after a fire…
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African flavour
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS YOU have to look twice not to mistake Happy African Variety Store for a hair salon. Giant posters of lushly-coiffeured models, not…
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Fatal train smash driver to stand trial
By CASEY NEILL A NARRE Warren truck driver has been ordered to stand trial in the Supreme Court over a fatal train crash in Dandenong…
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Gun pulled in road rage
By CASEY NEILL POLICE are seeking witnesses to two armed road rage clashes in Dandenong, one involving a silver handgun. Greater Dandenong CIU Acting Detective…
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Eye out for safer streets
By CASEY NEILL ASSAULTS are on the rise in Greater Dandenong, but police assure residents they’re working hard to make the streets safer. Victoria Police…
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Addicts held to account
INTRO Dandenong Drug Court is at the forefront of an alternative way of punishing drug-addicted criminals. Its magistrate Tony Parsons gives offenders every chance to…
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Kiwis call for rebuild help
By CASEY NEILL CHRISTCHURCH is rising from the rubble, three years after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake flattened the New Zealand city. And businesses in Melbourne’s…
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Fine follows water death
MELBOURNE Water has been fined $400,000 over the death of worker at Bangholme’s Eastern Treatment Plant in December 2011 The County Court last Friday heard…
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Greens are go for charity
BUSINESSES in Melbourne’s south east this week raised just over $45,000 for the region’s most vulnerable. City of Greater Dandenong-Industry held the fifth Take a…
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Thieves put tools on the tab
THIEVES wore stolen uniforms and posed as employees to charge more than $10,000 in tools to a business’ hardware store account. Greater Dandenong CIU detectives…
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Drive charge dropped
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS SUSPENDED jockey Daniel Nikolic has had dangerous driving charges against him dismissed after police failed to prove he was behind the wheel…
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Set for roller smash-up
SOUTH Sea Roller Derby will host its first bout for the year in Keysborough this weekend. Arch rivals the Cutthroat Charmers and the Blackheart Breakers…
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