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Date Time 19 local events to share in $85,000 in grants A total of 19 local events will share in $85,000 as part of Surf Coast Shire Council’s Events Grants Program 2021-22. The annual grants program has been running for seven years now to help improve the sustainability, spread and positive impact of events held within the Surf Coast Shire. Events to receive funding as part of the Events Grants Program 2021-22 are: Tourism events category Amy’s Great Ocean Road Gran Fondo – $7,500 Love Winter in Aireys – $5,000 Trail Running Series 3 Anglesea – $5,000 Great Ocean Road Running Festi...

Shane Vicary is Colac Otway’s 2021 Citizen of the Year Outstanding local role model, Shane Vicary is Colac Otway Shire Council’s 2021 Citizen of the Year. A business leader in the Colac Otway community, Shane showed great foresight and initiative by gathering together influential people of the Colac Otway community to establish Colac’s Community Leadership Group. The Community Leadership Group was integral in preparing Colac Otway for the coronavirus pandemic and, after a local COVID outbreak, uniting the community with a campaign to ‘Keep Colac Safe’ and look out for one another. S...

Two people have been seriously injured after a bus collided with their car on Victoria's Great Ocean Road.

Two teenage girls have been airlifted to hospital and five others injured after a bus and car crashed on Victoria's Great Ocean Road. Police said the driver of the V/Line bus suffered a medical episode resulting in the large vehicle swerving onto the wrong side of the road, causing the silver Holden Commodore to swerve and hit rocks along the popular road. The teenage girls, understood to both be 13-years-old, were two of five people in the car trapped for up to an hour at Mount Defiance near Separation Creek about 10.30am today. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.(Supplied)