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CUTE doesn’t begin to describe this Harold Street home, and you’ll fall in love the minute you open the gate of its white picket fence. A wide verandah fronts the circa 1900 weatherboard cottage, and overlooks the paperbarks along the street and a delightful cottage garden – complete with soothing water feature. Inside is everything…
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VULVODYNIA is a chronic pain, burning or discomfort involving the vulva which the sufferer can feel although there may be no visible symptoms. The condition can be generalised and affect the whole vulvar area or localised to a specific area. Provoked vestibulodynia, which used to be known as vulvar vestibulitis syndrome is a specific form…
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RESEARCHERS at the Telethon Kids Institute have found children with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to develop asthma. In the world first study, researchers tracked vitamin D levels from birth to age 10 in Perth children at high risk for asthma and allergy. The findings, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,…
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THE University of Melbourne’s Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine is currently conducting a new research study for knee osteoarthritis and needs Perth people to take part. The centre is seeking volunteers over 45 years old who’ve been suffering knee pain for a telephone-delivered research study to investigate whether support and advice delivered over…
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Living the Dream! Almost 40% of first home buyers who purchased within the last two years have admitted they couldn’t buy where they wanted. Furthermore, nearly 30% have had to save for a number of years to accumulate enough of a deposit to be able to buy their first home. According to data from CoreLogic,…
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RIGHT turns will be banned as part of a trial to solve traffic snarls at the notoriously clogged intersection of Beaufort and Walcott streets in Mt Lawley. The intersection has been a bugbear for local politicians for years because Walcott Street is on the boundary of Stirling and Vincent, and while drivers and pedestrians regularly…
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PERTH city council’s planning committee has backed the heritage listing of Edith Cowan’s 130-year old home by WA’s heritage council. Heritage minister Albert Jacob moved to protect the house in September after plans were submitted by owners Francesco and Carlo Cardaci to replace it with a $100 million, seven-storey hotel. After intense lobbying, including from…
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Teddy bears aren’t all button noses and fluffy ears; otherwise why would you need a disguise to go down in the woods? It’s an idea artists DeeDee Noon, Kevin Ballantine and Gill Willmer take to the extreme with a kid-friendly-ish Halloween teddy bears’ picnic at Edith Cowan university on Monday, October 31 from 5.30 –…
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A DUAL-PURPOSE path in the Baigup wetlands has been given a facelift following successful lobbying by the Baigup Wetlands Interest Group. The City of Bayswater matched a $19,000 federal government grant, which was spent on installing rumble strips, line-marking the pathway, putting up signage, and creating viewing areas for residents to absorb the scenery. Federal…
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PERTH’S planning committee has buckled after getting a slap-down from staff who want to heritage list the Grand Central Hotel. The hotel is owned by lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi and her husband Joe, who’d tried to limit the listing to various parts of the building amid plans to refurbish it. At September’s committee meeting councillors…
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