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Dog rescued after 11 hours in pipe A DOG has survived an all night ordeal stuck in the pipes under a Frankston sports ground. 14-year-old Jack Russell Terrier Tuppence was walking at Ballam Park with her owner when she ran off into some pipes. She became stuck inside, and spent the next 11 hours there. Tuppence’s owner Laura Sorraghan said she was overwhelmed with emotion when her dog was finally freed. “I was beside myself laughing and crying,” she said. “She went in just before 8pm and then they got her out at around 7am. She was fine, she was a bit stiff the next day but she had a massage and she’s been all good.” Ms Sorraghan said she was able to get her dog free thanks to the help of others. “There were two people on the oval on the cricket pitch with their dog, I ran over to them and told them my dog was stuck in a pipe and they came over and tried to call her. He then rang council then they rang the CFA. The CFA came but they had to leave, which is when the SES came. They were there until about 5am,” she said. “A mate of my dad’s has got an excavator, eventually they dug her up and got her free. Lee Milburn from Peninsula Directional Drilling was a big help, I really want to thank him.” Brodie Cowburn

Shire’s call for electric train Continued from Page 1 Ms Hosking cautioned that the section to Langwarrin would not go ahead without the cooperation of both state and federal governments, and the state was not yet on board. The shire council’s advocacy document highlights that there is currently no access to public transport for 82 per cent of the peninsula community. Ms Hosking said another way of looking at it was that five per cent of Melbourne’s population “already lives beyond the end of the Frankston train line, and this number grows daily”. “Current and future demand for public transport means that councils with vision and guts, like the shire, can get on with long-term strategic infrastructure planning.” The council stated that, “improved rail access will provide clear benefits to our community” including “a reduction in car dependency; better connectivity and access to jobs, education, services and amenity; and improved connectivity for those with restricted mobility”. Ms Hosking said the shire council was showing that “it understands the big picture, that transformational public transport projects like this need to get rolling so the next generation will benefit”. “The council’s advocacy campaign will give the rail project a big boost. It’s important to have both local councils reminding today’s state and federal governments to build the infrastructure our children will rely on.” Frankston Council too has changed its position on the proposed train extension, telling Transport Infrastructure Minister Ben Carroll last October that it wanted a “staged delivery approach, commencing with electrification ... to a new Leawarra Station”. This letter also stated Frankston was “supportive of extension to Langwarrin should further investigations determine that being the more appropriate location for the first stage”.

TUPPENCE with her owner Laura Sorraghan and Lee Milburn from Peninsula Directional Drilling after the dog’s dramatic rescue. Picture: Gary Sissons

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