Western Port
Western Port
realestate 6 May 2014
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Bells toll for the children NO one could blame the Rev Jennifer Furphy for feeling like she has been here before. But rather than the feeling having any religious connotations, Ms Murphy is back, after 10 years, again fighting the same “unjust” asylum seeker policies of the federal government which has led to more than 1000 children being held in detention centres both here and offshore. The weekly ringing of church bells are the call to arms being used by the vicar of St Marks at Balnarring and St Johns, Flinders. There are moves within the wider church community to extend bell ringing throughout the state and beyond “until the children are released”. Photo: Yanni See ‘Bells ring for children’s sake’, Page 7
Long arm of law clamps down By Chris Brennan A MAN with multiple outstanding warrants for unpaid fines totalling more than $100,000 was among 38 drivers nabbed during a combined police and sheriff’s operation in Tyabb last week. Sheriff’s officers using automatic number plate recognition technology detected 23 drivers with nearly $260,000 owing in outstanding warrants, while police charged a further 15
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people with a range of offences including disqualified driving during the operation on Frankston-Flinders Rd last Friday morning. The big catch of the day was the driver of a ute found to be owing more than $100,000 in unpaid fines who had his vehicle clamped. He now has seven days to address the outstanding warrants or faces a hearing at Frankston Magistrates Court. Sheriff’s officers said more than
$11,500 was paid by drivers to have their matters resolved on the day, while two other drivers had their vehicles clamped. Hastings highway patrol officers detected seven unregistered vehicles during the combined operation, as well as one person found to driving while suspended and one unlicensed driver. A further five cars were found to be defective, two of which were deemed unsafe and immediately taken off the road. A P-plate driver was also fined
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for not displaying plates. Sergeant David Collins said the one positive from the operation was the fact that none of the 203 drivers breath tested during the operation was found to be over the limit. That was far from the case early Saturday morning when police caught eight drivers over the legal alcohol limit during an operation in Rosebud. Police said they were “astounded” after picking up five drink drivers in
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just three and a half hours in the early hours of Saturday morning during random patrols of back streets. Two of the drivers were found to be more than three times the legal limit, including a 65-year-old Coronet Bay man intercepted on Point Nepean Rd at 1am who returned a reading of 0.159, and a 43-year-old Rosebud man caught on Bayview Rwd at 1.34am who returned a reading of 0.185. Continued Page 15