BEAUFORT STREET landlords are fuming after being issued bills for shopfront alterations made by Stirling city council and the WA government during their road-widening program. They say the bills are inflated and if they’d been able to get the work done themselves, it would have cost a fraction of what’s being sought. Astor Theatre owner…

BEAUFORT STREET is being revived with a slew of big developments on the horizon. Low foot traffic, empty buildings, an invasion of bars and the exodus of independent retailers has left the once-thriving street down in the dumps. “We’re at risk that Beaufort Street, that northern end, simply becomes a ghost town,” Vincent mayor John…

  “YOU’RE neglecting the community,” Dudley Maier told Vincent council this week. The former veteran councillor labelled community consultation over the Beaufort Street arcade development as abysmal. He pointed out that according to the council’s own map of who had been sent a consultation form, council carparks had been sent four. Several mistakes in the…

THE bizarre instruments came first, but when French troupe La Fausse Compagnie read Maylands artist/author Shaun Tan’s The Arrival it was a case of art imitating art, imitating life. “We discover at the beginning of our show picture of street musicians [in Tan’s book]. It is coincidence because we have here,” Thomas Le Saulnier told…

A 52-YEAR-OLD man was admitted to hospital after being brutally beaten at Yokine bowling club on a Sunday afternoon. Shane Manners was relaxing in the club when a man and woman entered the bar around 5pm to try to buy “shooters”. The barman refused to serve them as they weren’t members or with guests, so…

  THIEVES have nicked a mobility-impaired man’s electric bike, robbing him of his primary means of getting around. East Perth man Ves Gorecki’s right leg was injured last year, leaving him unable to drive or walk more than short distances. “I cannot drive a car, my leg is not functioning,” he says. “I cannot [drive]…

A POLICE crackdown on synthetic drugs sold in Perth has left users few options for their next fix. The Voice understands raids last week targeted Joynt Venture and adult stores in Perth, with stocks of synthetic cannabis removed. The blitz follows charges laid last month against a 15-year-old boy who’d allegedly supplied four boarding school…

NORTHBRIDGE neighbours came together last weekend with international street artists to spruce up their laneway between Moir and Lake Streets. The laneway has been hit hard by tagger vandals nearly every night: resident David McLoughlin noticed a wall with a mural never seemed to get tagged. “I’ve been there four or five years, and there’s…

VINCENT councillors have turned down an opportunity to hire Belgian street artist Roa to paint a toilet block in Birdwood Square. Roa’s in Perth for Form’s Public: Art in the City project, and the chance came along to pay him $15,000 to paint one of his world-famous animal murals (the price is half his usual…

EIGHTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD volunteer Max Lurie has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2014 community champions award. For nine years he has recruited volunteers to refurbish discarded computers and sent them to children in developing countries. Over the past 10 years the group has delivered more than 2000 PCs to orphanages, schools and charity organisations throughout…