Double dip: Thieves take caravans, boat
10:50 AM AEDT | A CARAVAN hire and storage business has been burgled just weeks after opening in Somerville. Two caravans and a boat worth a total of about $100,000 were stolen from the yard of Utow Caravan Hire.
New Karingal hub a first
10:49 AM AEDT | THE $6.1million education, child care and community services hub Karingal PLACE was officially opened at its Karingal Primary School site on Friday by Community Development Minister Lily D'Ambrosio.
Warrior's death big loss for club
10:45 AM AEDT | THE Hastings community is in mourning for a man described as the heart and soul of the Western Port Warriors football team.

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Staff photographs of the week
08 Feb 10 | Selection of photographs taken in the last week by our staff.

SPORT

10:35 AM AEDT | THE battle between second- and third-placed Flinders and Baden Powell should be a beauty after day one of MPCA Sub-District cricket.
10:38 AM AEDT | CARRUM appears to be odds-on to play MPCA District finals after scoring a monstrous 5-393 against Balnarring on Saturday.
Shelter aid for quake victims
ROTARY clubs in Australia have joined in a worldwide rally for Haiti earthquake victims.
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Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uranium
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An insider's view: David Wilson should have been saved
9:00 AM AEDT | Former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans is the key to the truth on why the Keating government wasted five chances to bring kidnapped Australian David Wilson home alive from Cambodia in 1994.
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