MANNA will continue to feed homeless people in Weld Square for at least another year, after attempts failed to find a new home for the service. Manna has been feeding the homeless and underprivileged in the square for 18 years but complaints from neighbouring residents in the increasingly upscale area resulted in Vincent council trying…

A $2000 reward is being offered for the return of a century-old heritage-listed door called Iris. The distinctive leadlight door was stolen from Sheridan’s badge shop in Florence Street, West Perth, during renovations in August. After four months of trawling Quokka and second-hand furniture sellers, Phil Sheridan has gone public with his appeal for the…

COLIN BARNETT will plough ahead with a City of Perth Act to force the merger of Vincent and Perth, announcing his government has already started drafting a Bill. The WA local government advisory board’s recommendation for an equal amalgamation between the two councils was rejected by the Barnett government, and the premier now plans to…

GIANT upside down lamp posts were deemed the best candidates for a $100,000 public art spend in Leederville. The big lamps crafted by Phil and Dawn Gamblen just edged out WA sculptor Tony Jones (responsible for the Eliza statue in Matilda Bay) who’d drawn up a design for a bird-like sculpture clasping the “pulsing heart…

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…