A magistrate has opted to dismiss all charges against the driver of a car that crashed into the outdoor area of a Daylesford pub last year, with families and survivors challenging the ‘injustice’. According to police and witnesses, around 6pm on 5 November a white BMW X5 mounted a kerb and drove across a grassed […]
Police are appealing for information from the public on a series of surprisingly similar armed robberies on hotels, in Adelaide and south-western Sydney. Reportedly two men, armed with a handgun and a knife and with their faces covered, rushed the Wiley Park Hotel shortly before 3am on Wednesday (11 September), and allegedly stole cash before
The forces behind developers Virtical and Core Asset Development have lost in their attempt to sue the prior owner of the historic Hotel Australasia over supposedly contracted works not completed. The heritage-listed Hotel was built 1904, located in the idyllic precinct of Eden, on the NSW south coast. After serving the community for more than
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Two men are on the run from police in Sydney and a man has been arrested in Melbourne over multiple armed robberies at pubs and clubs. According to reports, two armed men entered Oscars’ Livingstone Hotel in Sydney’s inner west around 1am on Tuesday. The men allegedly pointed guns in the faces of patrons and
An assault in a pub in north-west Adelaide earlier this month has seen a man die and his accused assailant’s charges escalated. According to police, 29-year-old Matthew Hawkins allegedly punched 35-year-old local Luke Sweetman in the head, shortly after midnight on 10 August at the Peninsula Hotel Motel in Taperoo. Emergency services were called and
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled Mark Toma, owner of pub-developer Virtical, to complete the troubled $61 million Taylor Square deal and pay costs to the vendor, MA Financial. The unlisted MA Taylor Square Fund acquired the prominent Courthouse Hotel on Oxford Street for $22 million late 2020, and the following month picked up the
Two bizarre acts of violence outside pubs hit the headlines this week, after an assault in the Melbourne suburb of Epping and an attempted robbery on the Sunshine Coast caught the media’s attention. A man plead guilty to the charge of intentionally causing injury at Heidelberg Magistrate’s Court this week after assaulting a patron at
The tenants and landlord of the Austral Hotel are in an ongoing legal dispute over whether or not the operators can continue at their investment, after disputes over an alleged renewal agreement. In 2020 Brettski Stewart and Ian Stewart, cousins, entered an agreement for the lease of one of Adelaide’s most popular pubs – the
AVC’s Middle Park Hotel is moving up, hurdling a protracted battle with locals in VCAT for expansion and a rooftop terrace in the ‘quaint’ central Melbourne precinct. National pub operator Australian Venue Co looked to undertake one of its signature refurbishments on the 134-year-old heritage-listed hotel. The redevelopment application looked to add bar and dining
A man has been arrested over the fire that tore into the accommodation area of the historic Oxford Hotel, which has been closed since late 2023 over a tenancy dispute. Around 7am on Saturday emergency services were summoned to the complex on O’Connell Street in North Adelaide, finding an established blaze that had begun in
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