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  • Police resources tied up with weekend parties

    OUT-of-control parties continue to drain police resources on weekends, with local police called out to three parties on Friday evening. During a ride-along, the Melville Times witnessed first hand the time and effort spent controlling parties in Bull Creek, Coolbellup and East Fremantle. The night began slowly with a few house visits and alarm reports but the focus soon turned to parties once ...

  • Questions over bird faeces

    THE Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) has questioned if bird faeces should be held responsible for high bacteria levels at Champion Lakes Regatta Centre. In 2011, a test organised by the original managers of the centre, the Armadale Redevelopment Authority, found waterbird faeces was the cause of spikes in thermophilic amoebae. Manager VenuesWest, which now manages the centre, ...

  • Girrawheen residents shaken by two deaths

    THEY milled in the street, for a killing had shaken "little Danbury" in Girrawheen. Kids arriving home from school, the elderly, young adults, mums and dads all chatted nervously as police blocked Danbury Crescent about 5.30pm last Wednesday where officers had found a 37-yearp-old man dead in his home two hours earlier. The residents were unaware that police had also found a ...

  • Around the clock random breath testing

    DRINK drivers now risk random breath tests around the clock, says Southeast Metropolitan Acting Senior Sergeant Ben Macfarlane. Police said the number of motorists tested in the district was up 17.5 percent compared to last year, because of "any time, anywhere" RBT operations. The Canning Times recently attended a morning RBT operation with Southeast Metropolitan officers. Thirty ...

  • All quiet on the warehouse front

    A COMMERCIAL warehouse used as a clubhouse for motorcycle club associates in Clarkson has gone quiet in the past five months, according to authorities. City of Wanneroo planning and sustainability director Len Kosova said there was no evidence the Rebels Motorcycle Club was still using a unit at 19 Caloundra Road, a sentiment echoed by the district police chief Charlie Carver. Last December, ...


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The Omen (2006)

The Omen (2006)

The opening scene of John Moore's remake of 1976's The Omen presents us with a series of uneasy recent news images--the space shuttle exploding, the Twin Towers falling, the tsunami in Thailand, violence in the Middle East--that are meant to be interpreted as the fulfillment of signs in Bi ... ...

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  • Average rates bill up by $64

    THE average Cockburn ratepayer will be asked to fork out an extra $64 next financial year after the City placed on its website a plan to increase rates across the board by 4.75 per cent. City finance director Stuart Downing said the increase of $1.23 a week was needed to accommodate operation and capital costs, estimated at $164 million. Mr Downing said the figure, up from $160 million for ...

  • Willeton school set to expand

    WILLETTON Senior High School has embarked on an ambitious building program in a bid to boost several academic areas. Plans include a new science block and classrooms for the first intake of Year 7s. Preparation work was finished this week, with new teaching spaces created so that old ones can be knocked down during the first stage, which is expected to begin sometime this year. Principal ...

  • Students show care for carers

    Balga Senior High School hospitality students Aldrin De Sierra, Beh Beh, Hay Biee Paw Aye, Shalay Naw, Eh Na Paw, Cade Wyatt and Jenjira Hoyken. Picture: Marcus Whisson ...

  • Lithium miner Galaxy Resources cuts salaries

    Ravensthorpe 6346 The lithium miner Galaxy Resources is cutting salaries and attempting to raise nearly $50 million to ease its substantial debt and raise working capital.The WA miner owns the Mount Cattlin mine near Ravensthorpe which was put into care and maintenance earlier this year.In a letter to shareholders, the company says its board and senior management will take major pay cuts in an ...

  • Man dies after car hits tree near Tambellup

    Tambellup 6320 A man has died in a crash near Tambellup, south-east of Perth.The 61-year-old man from Dumbleyung was driving a car that hit a tree on the Great Southern Highway late yesterday afternoon.He died at the scene.His death takes the state road toll for the year to ...

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