Police investigate Braybrook fire

BRAYBROOK, VIC. — Police are investigating a suspicious fire in Braybrook early this morning.

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Pedestrian dies after collision

MEADOW HEIGHTS, VIC. — Police are investigating the death of a 78-year-old man following a collision in Meadow Heights last week.

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Man charged following alleged CBD threat

MELBOURNE, VIC. — Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) detectives today charged a 31-year-old man of no fixed address in relation to a threat made via telephone yesterday, Thursday, May 21.

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Think it a fair bet this's what's planned for commission housing in Vic

'existing services go down, neighbours move out, you get empty properties, they become worse-looking. The irony of these long-running regeneration schemes is the estates wind up looking much more like the sink estates they were unjustly accused of being'

#housing #classWar #gentrification #vicPol

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/may/21/lund-point-tower-block-east-london

‘I knew everyone here’: the tower block with 164 boarded-up homes – and a few residents who just won’t leave

Lund Point in east London was once ‘a beautiful community’, according to Tee Fabikun, who has lived there since 1997. Now just four flats are occupied. Why are Fabikun and her friends hanging on? And what happened to the long-promised redevelopment?

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#Bomb response unit determines #suspicious item at #Avalon #airport a laser hair removal device.

The bomb response unit conducted checks after emergency officials were called to the domestic #terminal around 6am, prompting the terminal’s #evacuation & #closure. #auspol #VicPol

Man arrested after evading police

HEIDLEBERG WEST, VIC. — A 29-year-old Wallan man has been arrested after allegedly evading police in a suspected stolen vehicle through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs this morning.

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Firearms and drugs seized

BROADMEADOWS, VIC. — Detectives from the North West Metro Regional Crime Squad today charged a man as part of an ongoing investigation into a firearms incident in Glenroy last month.

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Another day ... another arson attack

GLENROY, VIC. — Police are investigating a suspicious fire in Glenroy in an area locals say has been targeted by arsonists many times before.

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Curious thing today in The Age – there's a story with a photo of the Lord Mayor in Beijing, which echoes the famous meme photo of former Premier Dan Andrews in Beijing. But the photo editor seems unaware of the connection. Curious. I mean, the Lord Mayor must have been posing deliberately.

#vicpol