BAYSWATER council has backed down from a fight to keep tough new cat-control rules, fearing it will be held in contempt of WA Parliament.  Last year Bayswater tried to bring in a new local cat law including a clause stating “a cat shall not be in a public place unless the cat is, in the…

AMID campaigners urging cat containment to protect both wildlife and cats, the RSCPA WA announced this week they were seeking information on the deliberate drowning of a four-year-old tabby cat named Tiger Tim.  He was found on August 24 with a brick around his neck in the Swan River along Bayswater’s foreshore. “He went missing…

FOLLOWING widespread discontent Vincent council has steered away from a plan to partly block off a Beaufort Street side-road.  It may be a sign the council’s learned the lesson of not diverting traffic from one street onto others, following the vexed Alma Road/Leake Street traffic diversion saga that caused local uproar earlier this year by…

PERTH councillors have voted to sell a public laneway to a company owned by mining and media magnate Kerry Stokes, amid concerns from locals it might be closed off if sold. Comserv, a subsidiary of Mr Stokes’ company Australian Capital Equity, made an unsolicited bid earlier this year to buy 177sqm of West Perth’s Altona…

LOCAL enviro-minded group Sustainable Bayswater is inviting like-minded folks to their launch at Enviro House for a night of short films and snacks. The group used to be called Transition Town Bayswater and they’re holding a second launch as a ‘getting-to-know-you’ event with the new, more obvious moniker. “We’re still part of the global Transition…