THE Searchers’ Frank Allen puts the band’s longevity down to a nostalgia revival–and the pure enjoyment they still get out of playing more than 50 years on. “We are retirement age and financially secure, so the only reason to do it is because you enjoy it,” he tells the Voice from his London home. With…

DEVELOPERS are being fined $500 a day over an inner-city site that resembles a rubbish dump. Vincent city council CEO Len Kosova says some material “appeared to be surplus to the material from the demolition” and the site is being treated as an “unauthorised open air storage yard”— in other words, an illegal tip. The…

THEY take their dogwalking seriously down at Woodville Reserve in North Perth, with word that a mafiosa-esque group is telling others to shove off from its patch of the park. Voice reader “Anne” says she was walking her dog when assaulted by a member of the group, who was out walking their own pooch. She…

VINCENT mayor John Carey has criticised his Bayswater counterpart for attending a dinner hosted by a property developer. Mr Carey says attending developers’ soirees doesn’t inspire ratepayers’ confidence in arms-length decision-making. He says there was no need for Barry McKenna and Bayswater council CEO Francesca Lefante and their partners to attend the Satterley Property Group…

PERTH COLLEGE this week demolished houses on Lawley Crescent that local heritage lovers had tried to save. Mount Lawley Society patron Barrie Baker is “very sad” the four houses were torn down and says the college’s new building will be out of kilter. “It’s modern, and big and rectangular,” Mr Baker says, noting the old…

“SO many people have seen my butt in the past year. At least 50.” Some might think it’d take courage to talk about problems related to your nether regions, but actor Annabel Maclean reckons sharing the nightmarish tale of her pilonidal cyst is “hysterical”. “It’s weird, it’s just an ingrown hair in your arse crack.…

ANOTHER boy has been charged over the clotheslining of a motorcyclist on Demeber 17, this one just 11 years old. At about 11.30pm that night, 19-year-old Lawson Mills was riding along Wellington Street near the Perth train station when he slammed into rope tied across the road. His alleged attackers then smacked him in the…

THE Perth city library and local history centre at 140 William Street closed its doors for the last time Saturday January 9, with the new seven-level library at 573 Hay Street set to open in March. Anyone with outstanding books can keep them till the new library opens, so you still have time to finish…

BRANKA RADANOVICH’S dream of a leafy Bayswater town centre may finally be realised after 35 years of campaigning to the local council. The council will next month consider planting street trees along King William Street and Whatley Crescent. Mrs Radanovich says it’s long past time. Frustrated with what she calls false promises by the council…

ANTIQUE painted advertisements likely dating back to the 1920s have been uncovered during demolition of an old bike shop next door. The demolished building is making way for the Lyric Lane Concept, a live music venue planned for Guildford Road in Maylands. Lyric Lane creator Michiel de Ruyter got in touch to tell us uncovering…