A SEVENTY-FIVE year old mistake will soon be corrected with the statue of renowned WWI general and famous architect Talbot Hobbs to be returned to Perth city council. For decades it had been assumed the statue of Sir Joseph John Talbot Hobbs on Riverside Drive was owned by the city, and so it spent tens…

RESIDENTS have failed in their bid to turn Seventh Avenue into a dead-end street. They’d campaigned for the change, fearful of extra traffic coming from the new bridge. Bayswater city council rejected the 367-signature petition, voting instead to look at installing traffic-calming measures and parking an illuminated trailer that tells drivers how fast they’re going.…

WELL, that was quick: it’s not even finished yet but some numpty’s already driven into the new Seventh Avenue bridge. The folks from the Maylands Residents and Ratepayers’ Association spotted (and heard) the bridge boop on Friday morning, when a cherry picker challenged the 4.7m clearance sign with a partially raised arm. The ablative sign…

“TICK to agree to terms and conditions”. Most of us could be signing away our first-born child to Apple or Facebook because we rarely, if ever, read the tedious reams of text. According to a 2011 UK survey a mere seven per cent of people can be bothered, with 58 per cent saying they’d rather…

VINCENT city council is preparing to sell the old Angove Street police station, expecting more than $1.7million to help cover last year’s budget bungle. The council bought the building from the cops back in 2009 after a proposal from Multicultural Inc to put in a wellness centre. It was purchased at auction for $1.725m, but…

ARE you into men with fat bellies and bald heads? If the answer is yes, make sure you check out the buddha weekend at Langley Park on April 18 and 19. The event celebrates the birth of the founder of buddhism, Sakyamuni Buddha, and includes tai chi and meditation sessions, fireworks and a baby blessing…

TINA ASKAM will take residents on a scratch and sniff tour of Maylands as part of her walking exhibition—here’s hoping it won’t include an off-the-leash dog park. The exhibition is the culmination of two years’ research by Askam, a PhD candidate, which involved 50 walks with locals, aged eight to 80, through the suburban heart…