Author: Your Herald
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DEMOLITION of the historic Seventh Avenue bridge in Maylands will start next week. It was closed Wednesday in preparation for the work. Traffic will be diverted via the Third Avenue bridge and the Caledonian Avenue level crossing. There will be a reduced speed limit of 40kph in the vicinity of the Seventh Avenue bridge during…
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AROUND 200 drummers will bash their pig skins in a Perth drumathon to raise money for children’s cancer research. Funds from Drumstrong—a six-hour drum marathon in East Perth—will be donated to the children’s leukaemia and cancer research foundation. All instruments will be provided and drummers can choose to either make a gold coin donation or…
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DEVELOPER Innocento Tizzano is appealing Vincent council’s refusal to allow him to install a gym on the ground floor of his troubled Fitzgerald Street project. The four-storey block’s construction had been plagued with troubles, the council heard in March. Parked cars had been damaged, 10-litre paint tins had fallen from the third storey, staining the…
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REMIDA’S open day mannequin auction last weekend raised $2000 for cancer charity No Matter What–The Evie Charitable Association. North Perth couple Alison Elgar and Michelle Rogers started the charity after their daughter Evie died of cancer. The plucky 11-year-old’s motto was “cancer sucks”. For the auction the pair teamed up with Remida WA, an arts…
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PERTH wunderkind Adam Taggart has been named in the Socceroos’ extended 30-man squad for the World Cup. The 20-year-old Newcastle Jets striker won the Golden Boot after scoring 16 goals in a breakout 2013-14 A-League season. Before moving to the NSW outfit, he played for Perth Glory from 2010-12, making 10 appearances. Football West CEO…
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Look out for the lefties I REFER to your article “Save our ABC” (Voice, May 10, 2014). The petition circulated by GetUp to “protect” the ABC is totally self-serving as GetUp is Greens/Labor aligned. GetUp is an electronic online activist organisation of the left. The ex-national director of GetUp, Simon Sheikh, was a Greens Senate…
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When you mention Italy, everyone has a different thought. Some may think about the magnificent piazzas in Rome, the great shopping in Milan, or the wonderful and warm Italian people. But there’s one thing that everyone agrees upon – Italian food is simply superb! You don’t have to travel to Italy to experience authentic Italian…
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YOU wouldn’t be surprised to see the cosy Spanish Flavours in the back blocks of Madrid, where owner Rosa hails from. Thankfully for us she moved some time ago to Mt Hawthorn. The decor is Spanish kitsch with plenty of terracotta, wrought iron and pots of red (but artificial) geraniums. The feeling is one of…
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WITH his and hers garages and possibly the world’s smallest office, this Regent Street Mt Lawley home is an interesting package. The three-bedroom/two-bathroom abode is one of four elegant federation-style townhouses in a quiet tree-lined avenue, just off Beaufort Street. Just a few years old they exude an old-world charm, with all the convenience of…
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SELF-DESCRIBED Mt Lawley paedophile Harry Holland is appealing a child pornography conviction, arguing his Rockspider magazines have social history value. Police found three issues of the magazine in Holland’s house in 2010. Also known as both Colin Nugent and Emu Nugent, Holland has owned the magazines since the mid-1980s. While the publications have no images…
