Author: Your Herald

  • Leederville Legend

    A PERTH VOICE PROMOTIONAL FEATURE: Legendary Leederville eatery Tsuke Ba serves up some of the freshest sushi you’re ever likely to try this side of Tokyo. Tucked-away in Oxford Street’s Tip Top arcade, this hidden gem is definitely worth seeking out, for super tasty food at a fantastic price. Ideal for a quick bite before…

  • ASTROLOGY: March 30 – April 6, 2019

    ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) This is a fine time for Rams to proudly prance free. Chiron is with you, gently leaning on you to keep things on a creative and healing trajectory. Uranus is gone, meaning that there shouldn’t be any major disruptive events turning you on your head. Celebrate all that makes…

  • An answer to your prayers

    SWEATY youngsters once whacked shuttlecocks over a net as they raced across the jarrah floor of this former church hall in Mt Hawthorn. The hall was painstakingly renovated in 2009 by a former owner – a philosopher, university lecturer and atheist – who turned it into a capacious home. Of the 270sqm of living space,…

  • About-turn for Stirling

    STIRLING deputy mayor David Lagan says his council will listen to Mt Lawley residents if they really hate proposed modifications to a dangerous intersection. On Saturday Cr Lagan joined mayor Mark Irwin and six of his colleagues at a public meeting organised by residents to protest against the council’s plan to allow only left-hand turns…

  • Cash pledge for play

    KIDS at Maylands Peninsula Primary School are having to use their playground in shifts because there’s not enough equipment. Students number have doubled to 650 since the school opened in 2004 and Federal Labor Perth MP Patrick Gorman says parents told him there’s a weekly roster to use the playground equipment. Mr Gorman lobbied shadow…

  • Box a pox

    QUEENSLAND box trees are a safety hazard and have no place in Stirling, says councillor Joe Ferrante. At Stirling’s last meeting, Cr Ferrante called for staff to investigate Claremont council’s trial removal of the species and he wants his council to consider something similar. Cr Ferrante says residents should have the right to trim back…

  • Pledges are flowing

    FEDERAL LABOR has pledged $1.5 million to help save Maylands Waterland if they win the upcoming federal election. The ageing council-owned facility was set to close at the end of the summer season after the city said it couldn’t afford to pay for essential repairs and upgrades and had been unsuccessful in securing external funding.…

  • New threat to centre naming

    FORMER Stirling mayor Terry Tyzack faces having his name scrubbed off signage outside an Inglewood aquatic centre named in his honour. Stirling councillor Suzanne Migdale has called for individual names to be removed from the external signage and marketing of all Stirling’s leisure centres so they can be branded according to their suburb. She says…

  • Sit-in protest

    A BAYSWATER real estate agent unhappy with Bayswater council’s plans to build a toilet at the foot of the Seventh Avenue bridge in Maylands delivered a code-brown protest from a portable loo on Saturday. Locals have been kicking up a stink over the council’s lack of public consultation since the location was revealed in February.…

  • CLIMATE CHANGE

    THOUSANDS of Perth school pupils marched through the streets to demand action on climate change as part of the School Strike 4 Climate last Friday (March 15). It’s the second time in under six months Australian students have walked out of school to demand action on global warming ahead of the upcoming federal election.