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  • Police hunt daylight burglars

    POLICE are hunting two men who tried to break into a Colac motorcycle shop in an attempted daylight burglary yesterday.

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  • Ratepayers’ money spent out of town

    COLAC Otway Shire Council is under fire for spending ratepayers’ money out of town while the Colac and district economy struggles.

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  • Farm shop thieves strike again

    THIEVES have stolen $10,000 worth of cattle drench in a third burglary on a Colac West rural business this month.

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  • Minister has high hopes for Colac education

    SCHOOLS Education Minister Peter Garrett has high hopes for Colac school funding.

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  • Council might lose bypass control

    ELECTED councillors could lose control over planning a Colac bypass, with VicRoads moving to take over the project.

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  • Police ready for festival crowd

    APOLLO Bay police say they are prepared for thousands of people to converge on the coastal town for its annual music festival this weekend.

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  • Second-year motorcycle mechanic Raymond Cole, right, shows Corangamite MP Darren Cheeseman, left, and School Education Minister Peter Garrett Colac Secondary Colleges trade training centre.

    Peter Garrett sings praises of trade centre

    FORMER Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett praised Colac’s “world-class facilities” during a visit to the city’s new trade training centres yesterday.

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  • Masked, armed men invade home and terrorise family

    POLICE are hunting masked bandits who terrorised a Colac district family with baseball bats and a machete in a brazen aggravated burglary.

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