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Milan exchange students bid a fond farewell
Three students visiting from Milan have left their hearts in Melbourne. Anna Pignapelli, Eleonora Merlai and Giulia Boniardi have just wrapped up a school exchange…
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Ardeer and Keilor hot spots for fuel theft
Service stations in Ardeer, Keilor and Keilor Park are each being hit by petrol thieves nearly 200 times a year. A Victorian Automobile Chamber of…
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Council spent $280,000 on Mylo legal costs
EXCLUSIVE Brimbank council spent nearly $280,000 over two and a half years in an unsuccessful bid to have a Sunshine dog put down. Figures uncovered…
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Brimbank Walk to School activities
Children will be walking, scooting and riding to school this October as Brimbank City Council works with local primary schools to organise Walk to School…
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Doors open to options
Respecting diversity, empowering people and working together are key values of Distinctive Options, which is on its way to St Albans. The Sunbury-based organisation has…
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Pokies profits ‘should go to community projects’
State government profits from poker machines should fund community projects, such as Ardeer’s planned cycling hub, Brimbank council administrator Jane Nathan believes. There has been…
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St Albans students on the cycle of happiness
Tai Lemore, Hanna Nguyen, My Phung Dang and Linda Nguyen were among 51 St Albans Secondary College students who rode off into the sunset on…
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Cairnlea icon turned into a children’s book
Cairnlea Community Hub played host to the launch of locally focused children’s book, The Little Black Powder Mill on the Grasslands of Cairnlea. Centring on…
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Port privitisation puts bid to cut trucks in peril
A project that could take thousands of trucks off inner-west streets has been left languishing while the state government pursues its privatisation of Melbourne’s port.…
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Former Bomber behind Melton’s newest suburb
As a star AFL defender, Andrew Welsh owned the back pocket. Now the footballer-turned property developer owns a decent pocket of Melton. The former Essendon vice captain is preparing…
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Planning for Melton’s freight future
The Western Freeway upgrade and the Christies Road exchange off the Deer Park bypass have been identified as the two top-priority projects to improve freight…
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Hoons and idiots
Police have had a busy time on the roads. Drug-driver bound for court A Sydenham man was clocked travelling nearly 50 kilometres an hour…
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No handbrake on job prospect
Mainstream education doesn’t suit all learners, especially those who prefer practical approaches over the theoretical. For the practical types, Concern Australia (CA), a group founded…
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High demand for court interpreters
Sunshine Magistrates Court had the second-highest number of family violence cases requiring an interpreter in 2013-14. In a submission to the Royal Commission on Family…
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Work begins on Caroline Springs railway station
Work has begun to build the new Caroline Springs railway station. Kororoit MP Marlene Kairouz took a shovel in hand to turn the first sod…
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