A PUPPY welfare organisation will protest outside a Mt Lawley pet shop on Sunday. Oscar’s Law wants “puppy factories” abolished and is targeting a Beaufort Street pet shop it claims flies in litters of puppies from “factories” in the eastern states for the Christmas rush. Puppy farms are big news in the eastern states, with…

A FEW weeks after WA consumer protection issued a warning about WA Tree Services, the Voice has received another complaint about the firm. Mt Lawley pensioner Brian Waugh says the firm is letter-boxing flyers that advertise tree lopping work before the council’s green collection. Mr Waugh says there is no annual green collection in Bayswater:…

HOW on earth do you get chucked out of Carols by Candlelight? Tree advocate Greg Smith can tell you: he was ejected from Bayswater’s Halliday Park event for protesting the felling of trees at the reserve. “I was wearing a sandwich board sign with the signs reading ‘trees lest we forget’ and ‘Bayswater Urban Tree…

THE old Methodist Manse on Newcastle Street will live to see another Christmas after the local development assessment panel rejected a request to demolish it. Owners J and R Baker wanted to knock it over to make way for an eight-storey office and units development. The application was a fair way’s north of allowed limits…

DARRYL MOORE has revealed he will again seek Liberal Party preselection for the seat of Perth at the next federal election. Trounced by Alannah MacTiernan in 2013 in what was expected to be a much closer battle, he has been a regular critic of the Labor MP in the year since her election. In one…

A CHAPLAIN has been sacked from her three Perth schools following Barnett government education cuts. Karen Hearty worked for six-and-a-half years at Inglewood primary, and seven-and-a-half at Noranda and Hampton Park. She was told last week this week would be her last. Despite joining WA’s growing unemployment queue, Ms Hearty is more concerned about the…

HIGHER parking fines and paid parking are Bayswater’s new year gifts for motorists. A draft of the council’s new parking policy reveals many fines will skyrocket from $50 to $80 or $85, including fines issued for parking on median strips or failure to park wholly within a parking area. Hefty $150 fines will be meted…

HAVING been turned down for heritage listing, the rare 1930s Grafton Flats at 49 Ventnor Avenue were demolished this week. Perth councillor Reece Harley lived in one of the West Perth units for a year and said the doomed building deserved saving. Despite an independent heritage report extolling its historic virtues, both the WA heritage…

BAYSWATER City Residents’ Association wants council meetings recorded and made available to the public. The proposal by BBRA president Tony Green won approval at last week’s council AGM, which means the council is now required to formally consider it and, if it’s rejected, give a reason for rejection. “Other councils, including Bassendean do it, so…

Delicious dummy spit WHAT a delicious quote within your article last week “Morley off the map for NBN” (Voice, December 6, 2014) where your favourite media go-to line-grab girl is having yet another bleat. In it, the Labor member falsely “reckons the new schedule favours Liberal seats”. Dummy spit or what? It must get terribly…