Police and Emergencies

  • Facebook fight ends in assault

    A FACEBOOK argument ended in a serious assault with a steel fire poker at Cobden.

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  • Train-travelling thief arrested

    POLICE have arrested a brazen thief who stole a university student’s laptop computer and graphics tablet on a train at Winchelsea.

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  • Police nab 100 drivers

    COLAC and district police have nabbed up to 100 motorists for safety and traffic offences in a bid to make the region’s roads safer.

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  • Injured teenager returns home

    A COLAC district junior footballer is home from hospital after suffering spinal injuries in a match at the weekend.

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  • Carjackers terrorise driver

    POLICE are hunting two men who stole a Colac district man’s car after one of the offenders held a knife to the victim’s throat.

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  • Footballer airlifted with fractured vertebrae

    A 17-YEAR-OLD Colac district footballer has two fractured vertebrae and suffered temporary paralysis down his left side after an on-field incident during a weekend game at Birregurra.

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  • Driver escapes fiery crash, walks for help

    A COBDEN man walked more than two kilometres for help after he was lucky to survive a car crash which incinerated his vehicle.

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  • Man waited 100 minutes for ambulance

    A COLAC district man waited more than an hour for an ambulance after falling from a horse at Bambra, north of Lorne.

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