PUBLIC relations expert Dianne Bain says the City of Perth needs to end its “war on the media” and she’ll push to restore communication with the press if elected on October 21. A former ABC journalist who now runs Bain Media, she says the city media staff need to get on the front foot and…

NORTH PERTH child rapist Vincenzo Mule has been sentenced to 10 years’ prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting two young children and will be eligible for parole after eight years. He lured the four-year-old girl and the five-year-old boy from a now-closed North Perth childcare centre, fined $40,000 for not adequately monitoring children. Mule took…

87-YEAR-OLD Betty Smith has been collecting used stamps for charity for nearly 30 years, recently handing over a record 33kg box of them to help the needy. The Inglewood resident is a familiar face at businesses in East Perth, the CBD, West Perth and Subiaco, as she goes stamp hunting twice a week. “I don’t…

LAST week in our Letters page we accidentally referred to Kate Thomson as a candidate for Bayswater’s west ward, but she’s actually running in south ward (that was our mistake: she knows where she’s running). Our apologies, Kate.

“MR KIMBERLEY” aka Sam Lovell AM has donated his personal archive of photos and memorabilia to the WA State Library. One of the stolen generation, he was taken from his family in 1936 when he was only three years old. He grew up working the cattle stations along the Gibb River Road. When working as…