Beer bottle threat against Geelong taxi driver
POLICE are hunting a man who allegedly threatened a Geelong taxi driver with a beer bottle and damaged his cab.
Victoria Police said the driver...
Vandals’ $40,000 rampage through Geelong Botanic Gardens
VANDALS left a $40,000 trail of destruction in Geelong Botanic Gardens overnight.
Immature trees and plants were destroyed, cacti slashed and statues and bollards vandalised....
Cop’s rape hearing
By NOEL MURPHY
A POLICEMAN charged with rape appeared in Geelong Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Phillip Gordon Shaw, a Western Region Victoria Police Leading Senior Constable, was...
Fanning wins fourth Rip Curl Pro at Bells
Australian Mick Fanning won his fourth Rip Curl Pro to seize an early lead in the world championship chase at Bells Beach yesterday.
Fanning, a...
Jail for flouting orders after robbing cashiers
By NOEL MURPHY
A MAN with numerous convictions for supermarket and convenience store robberies was yesterday jailed for nine months after breaching community correction orders.
Glen...
Anzac legends come to life in Winchelsea trenches
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
STORIES of the Anzacs' sacrifice abound as the Gallipoli centenary approaches.
But what was it really like to be there?
Geelong Military Re-enactment...
Plains ambo times ‘worst’
GOLDEN Plains Shire has the worst ambulance code-one response times in the state, according to an interim report into Ambulance Victoria.
Nine per cent of...
In brief
Board doomed
Barwon Water’s board faces the sack, Water Minister Lisa Neville warned this week.
The Bellarine MP foreshadowed a clean out of water boards around...
Group faces big VCAT loss bill
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A community group faces “unspecified” legal costs after losing its tribunal appeal against plans for a service station at Clifton Springs
Drysdale...
Double Take
Mick Fanning might have won the main event at the Rip Curl Pro yesterday but Melbourne again claimed the marketing stakes.
The big smoke elbowed...
Factory trawler fishing to berth
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
CONTROVERSIAL factory freezer trawler Geelong Star is fishing its way to Corio Bay after arriving in Western Australia from Europe.
The 95-metre...
Champ coasts into GOR ride
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
HE WAS once ranked third in the world as a triathlete but Greg Stewart will be just one of the cyclists...
Romanis exhibits at NGV
A First Nations woman born and raised on Wadawurrung Country will soon see her artwork on display at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)....
