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Author: Your Herald
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COLES will tidy up a vacant property it owns in Maylands before selling it, following community complaints about the town’s “eyesore”. Dead weeds, a rusted fence, rubbish and an abandoned car park are the main features at 231 Guildford Road — which the supermarket giant has barely touched since buying it eight years ago. The…
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A BLUEPRINT for Bayswater’s town centre will cost $120,000 to draw up — instead of $40,000 — because the council wants it done by consultants in time for a December 15 meeting with WA transport minister Dean Nalder. Mayor Barry McKenna says the council wants “ammunition” at the meeting to convince Mr Nalder to take…
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No free rangers on Friday TOO bad if you had a problem on Friday November 13 and needed Vincent’s rangers. I called to advise of a footpath obstruction and significant safety hazard on Florence Street in West Perth and was politely told, “I am sorry, the rangers are moving offices today so there will not…
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LUNCHING alone at the West End Deli was so relaxing I felt right at home reading the paper while waiting for my meal. But the first mouthful of the Sri Lankan-inspired pumpkin curry and local prawns ($27) sent all thoughts of world and home news from my head, my eyes glazing over in rapture at…
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ACROPOLIS NOW was a groundbreaker for Australian comedy — and helped changed how the wider community viewed “wogs”, says the man who was there from the beginning, George Kapiniaris, aka Agamemnon (Memo) Aristotle Hatzidimitropoulos. “Greeks and Italians were the Arabs of then,” he says. Thirty years ago “wog” was an insult hurled casually by anglo-Aussies…
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THE vendor of this North Perth townhouse has lived here more than five years: not a bad innings for a place many would regard as a “starter” home. Moving in had been memorable for more than the usual reasons — a couple of days into being a home owner the hailstorm of 2010 hit, but…
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Note: these photos are of 2015 Mercedes C250 and CLA250 models, but features may vary to the vehicles purchased by the City of Stirling. WHY buy just one luxury Mercedes with ratepayers’ money when you can buy two? Eyebrows are being raised across Stirling as word gets around that mayor Giovanni Italiano and…
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IT’S 2015 and while most of us might moan about broadband that’s a little too slow, the poor folk in Ray Healy Towers in East Perth can’t even watch television. The mostly elderly — and low-income — residents of five units in the complex have been without their Family Feud and Antiques Roadshow since September.…
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GETTING the private sector to shell out for light rail could be a good way to get it up and running, says Curtin uni researcher Jemma Green. Recently elected to Perth city council (but chatting to us wearing her sustainable policy institute researcher hat), Ms Green and boss Peter Newman met with new federal cities…
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