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Lucy CallanderUrban affairs reporter

Lucy Callander is an urban affairs reporter for Leader Community News and the Herald Sun.

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McCrae landslide: Demolition crews are clearing 3 Penny Lane, nine months after a landslide sent the luxury house crashing down the McCrae cliffs on the Mornington Peninsula. Picture: Lucy Callander

Demolition crews remove McCrae mansion hit by landslide

Safety concerns have forced the demolition of a landslide-damaged McCrae mansion before nearby residents learn the fate of their own multimillion-dollar homes.

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‘Comical’ claim as jet skiing tenants fight to stay in luxury rental

Defiant tenants advertised their Mornington Peninsula rental online for $19,000 summer stays before asking the Supreme Court to delay their eviction.

Norliah Syer and her son Zac 19yrs hold a picture of her son and ZacÃ¢â¬â¢s brother , Levi 16yrs who died on 24 September from Sepsis. They want to create awareness about the deadly infection and how it can be prevented. Picture : Ian Currie

‘One simple act could have saved my son’

After a day on the tools, 16-year-old Levi complained of a sore neck. Within hours the Australian teen was gone. His heartbroken mum says a simple act could have saved him.

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South Beach Beauty 62 Kilburn Grove Mt Martha tenants from hell sublet luxury 4 bedroom house with pool as an airbnb. Picture: supplied

Jet skis and spear fishing: Tenants pimp out luxury rental for big bucks

It’s the luxury Mornington Peninsular pad at the centre of a dispute between the tenants using it to rake in the cash to support their glam lifestyle and the owners left in the dark.

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Boy, 9, fighting for life after quad bike crash

A nine-year-old boy is in a critical condition after his quad bike crashed on private farmland near Shepparton, sparking a WorkSafe investigation.

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Former teacher Shane Featherston, 56, leaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court after a committal mention and application to cross examine witnesses on charges of indecent act against a child under his care, supervision and authority. Picture: Ian Currie

Grub primary school teacher caused student unspeakable pain

A Victorian primary school teacher whose strict Seventh-day Adventist childhood taught him being gay was “sinful and wrong” has been sentenced over his sexual abuse of a male student in 1999.

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Wallabies at The Briars in Mount Martha on the Mornigton Peninsula are starving to death. Picture: supplied

Crisis meeting over Mornington Peninsula wildlife deaths

Kangaroo and wallaby populations at a Mornington Peninsula wildlife sanctuary has exploded, leaving the local council with a life-and-death decision.

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Home and Away actor Orpheus Pledger who plays Mason on the show, talks to the Daily Telegraph about the medicinal cannabis storyline. Picture: David Swift.

Former Home and Away star jailed after blowing last chance

A former soap star who stomped on a woman’s head during a drug-fuelled attack is back behind bars after squandering his last chance at freedom.

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Four youths charged over Rosebud home invasion

Four young men have been charged after a couple was allegedly threatened in a terrifying home invasion on the Mornington Peninsula.

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Lost in the mail? Liberal MPs snubbed from housing forum

Council bureaucrats have sparked outrage by inviting a wannabe Labor pollie to a homelessness summit while ignoring the area’s sitting Liberal MPs.

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