A BANNER has gone up on iconic Oxford Street store Greens & Co stating, “We Love Naomi Clark”. The banner is a reference to a recent letter published in the Voice by “Naomi Clark” criticising Vincent councillor John Carey.  Greens & Co owner Stuart Lofthouse is no fan of the council. Mayor Alannah MacTiernan had…

A SPATE of copper pipe thefts over the past month has cost three Yokine businesses around $3000. Cathy’s Kitchen, Rayners Supermarket, and Lottery Centre and Newsagency—all located within metres of each other on Flinders Street—have been targeted by thieves who sell the copper to scrap yards. Cathy’s Kitchen owner Cathy Horbron says copper pipes outside…

BAYSWATER city council has abandoned its move to prohibit political advertising on street benches. At a closed doors meeting and after hearing legal advice, the council voted not to pursue Streetside Advertising, which has contracts with local MPs. In December the council voted to ban all political ads on street benches, bus shelters and other…

MOUNT LAWLEY’S Raah restaurant closes this Friday May 31. Having opened in October 2011, the middle-eastern restaurant joins a slew of recent closures on Beaufort Street in the past year including Ottobrino Butchers, Vintage Tatt, and Antonio’s Continental Deli. Raah’s owner John Stephenson says high rents were a contributing factor. He’s planning to go back…

LISA SCAFFIDI is the first-ever female mayor in WA to sign-up for Vinnie’s CEO sleep-out. The Perth lord mayor will spend a night sleeping rough at the WACA to raise funds for the homeless charity. The annual sleep-out—first held in Sydney in 2006 —is on June 20. Previous female participants include Bayswater city council CEO…

ALANNAH MacTIERNAN has challenged perennial Vincent council critics Debbie Saunders and Stuart Lofthouse, who owns Greens & Co on Oxford Street in Leederville, to run for council at October’s election. The pair is often at council meetings, getting stuck into councillors and staff over delays in getting questions answered and what they describe as inadequate…

DOCUMENTS released by Mt Hawthorn primary school provide a quaint insight into the earliest years of Hazel Hawke’s life. The former wife of Labor prime minister Bob Hawke died last Thursday at the age of 83, following a prolonged battle with Alzheimer’s. She was born Hazel Masterson in Perth in 1929 and was of the…

BAYSWATER city council is set to spend up to $448,000 on a toilet at Bayswater train station because the WA government is refusing to include one in its upgrade of the station. The Bayswater development assessments panel had told the PTA to provide the loo and automatic ticket machines as part of its $7.25m upgrade…

MAYLANDS is to get a new community market. It will be held every Saturday morning, between 8am and 1pm, between the RISE and Maylands Hall on Eighth Avenue. Stall holders will sell fresh local food, and arts and crafts. The market is a joint venture between Maylands Lions Club and Events and Beyond, a commercial…

LIBERAL MP Eleni Evangel is taking on bureaucrats inside the WA government to get a 40kmh zone installed outside North Perth primary school. The public transport authority will only slow traffic on roads that directly abut a school. Because a small park separates busy View Street from the school’s southern frontage it is technically ineligible.…