Drugs, booze and brawls scar CBD pop-up park
ROUGH sleepers and backpackers have overtaken the Elizabeth St pop-up park, with rampant drug use and boozing terrifying tourists, traders say. But the council wants to extend it. Here’s why.
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Radical plan to shock ignorant swimmers
FRUSTRATED lifesaving bosses want a graphic Transport Accident Commission-style advertising campaign to shock Victorians out of their ignorance of beach safety.
Man hands himself in over ‘spineless’ funeral theft
A MAN has handed himself in and been charged after allegedly stealing $4000 from a donation box at the Avondale Heights funeral of a young father. The money was to be donated to the man’s autistic son.
Hero saves stab victims from bleeding to death
THE mother of two men who were brutally stabbed in Noble Park this morning has thanked a good Samaritan for “saving the lives of her two sons”.
Arrest made over brutal CBD stabbing
A MAN has handed himself into police in relation to an alleged stabbing in Melbourne’s CBD that left two victims requiring emergency surgery. The arrest comes after police released new footage in a public bid to find the perpetrator.
Call for ‘seedy’ CBD street corner clean up after violent stabbing
BUSINESSES on a notorious Flinders St corner are fed up with violence after an early morning assault left two people with serious stab wounds.
I’ll never forget Bourke St: young ambo
BOURKE St paramedic Jess Read was only supposed to be an observer. But by 5pm on 20 January, the young paramedic had seen more than most do in an entire career.
African teen’s plea: ‘We’re not doing anything wrong’
THERE were five African teens wandering around the trashed community centre at Tarneit. One had a point to make: The police and the public are getting it all wrong. But few locals would agree.
Police vow to target out-of-control African teen ‘street gangs’
POLICE have labelled Melbourne’s out-of-control African teen thugs “street gangs” but leaders from the African community have hit back at criticism from the Prime Minister that Victoria is facing a “gang violence” issue.
Harsher laws to target drug drivers
DRUG drivers will be off our roads for longer under new legislation introduced later this year, as Victoria’s top road cop labels the scourge of drug drivers “appalling”.
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