NEWS DESK
Car may lead to missing teen
Jobs to go as Masters signals the end ABOUT 200 jobs will be lost in Mornington and Carrum Downs with closure of the Masters “home improvement” stores. The demise of the Woolworthsowned Masters chain comes as no surprise, considering its much-publicised failure to gain market share. Each store employs about 100 staff full-time, part-time and casual. Woolworth’s media team on Tuesday said the Masters stores would “remain open as normal for some months to come”. “What we’ve announced is we intend to exit the business. How we exit, which will either be through the sale process or a wind-up process, has yet to be decided and an outcome on this
is some time away. “If Woolworths is unable to sell all of the business and has to close any of its operations, we will seek to provide alternate employment opportunities within the Woolworths Group to all current [Masters] employees.” Preferably, the stores would be sold as going concerns – or perhaps taken over by supermarket giants Costco or the German-owned Lidl – and remain employers of local staff. Lidl, rated the fourth-largest retailer in the world, with $128 billion in annual sales, has reportedly been in discussions with logistics providers and has applied for a wide range of home brand trademarks for a presence in Australia.
MISSING Persons Squad detectives on Wednesday found a car they were searching for as part of their investigation into the disappearance of 17 year old Cayleb Hough. The Chelsea Heights teenager was last seen near The Crescent, Highett, in the early hours of Sunday 20 December. Cayleb was seen travelling in a blue 2003 Ford Falcon XR6 sedan with registration SOG 812. Police found the car in a car park at a Southbank entertainment complex, 1pm, Saturday. The vehicle is being forensically tested. Anyone who may have seen the car between 6am, 20 December, and 5.30pm, 21 December, is asked to call police. They believe the car, which has a black bumper bar, may have been travelling in the Melbourne metropolitan area and south eastern suburbs over the two days. Serious concerns are held for Cayleb as it is unusual for him to go missing for
this length of time. He is described as about 180cm tall with a medium build, dark brown hair and fair skin. It is not known what he was wearing when he disappeared. He is known to frequent the Bonbeach, Cheltenham and Heatherton areas.
Storage units hit – again THIEVES ransacked 22 private storage units at a Rutherford Rd, Seaford, premises in two visits – just a week after another storage facility on the same road was robbed. In the earlier raids, on 12-14 January, two men are shown on CCTV cutting through wire fencing to access nine units at Minders Self Storage, before stealing tools and motorbikes valued at $7000. The men appear to have seen the bikes on the first raid, marking an ‘X’ outside the unit, before returning two nights later with a trailer to steal them. In two other apparently linked early morning raids, 15 and 19 January, possibly the same men broke into a nearby storage facility to steal musical equipment, metal detectors and other items over two nights. The men again broke padlocks on the units, finding many empty but with items worth stealing in the others. Detective Senior Constable Gavin Hiku, of Frankston CIU, said he had advised the storage businesses’ owners on security to help deter any possible future thefts. He was also visiting second-hand dealers seeking information on sellers. Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers, 1800 333 000, or Frankston CIU, 9784 5555.
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Cayleb has not used his phone or accessed his bank accounts since he was last seen. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential crime report to crimestoppersvic.vic. gov.au