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  • Fixed speed cameras call

    THE death of Pinjarra grandfather Peter Azzaro in a crash on Pinjarra Road on June 2 has prompted an online petition calling for permanent speed cameras on the road. Melissa Walton Colyer-long started the petition last week. "My family, friends and I lost my uncle," she said. She asked people to sign the petition because there had been too many accidents on Pinjarra Road. ...

  • New boardwalk will link path to beach

    An aerial shot of the new Guilderton boardwalk area at Moore River, together with plan details. The boardwalk is expected to cost about $270,000 and will join the existing path and gazebo on the beach in Moore River. An existing boardwalk had been one of the top tourist spots in Guilderton for a decade before it was closed after being damaged by a rock fall in late 2010. Shire chief Jeremy ...

  • Punch man is sorry

    PUNCHING a church elder in the face in an unprovoked attack resulted in seven-months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, when an Eden Hill man appeared in Mandurah Magistrates Court on June 11. Phillip Edward Humes pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm. Police prosecutor Ser-geant Rod Murray said Humes was on the Mandurah foreshore on January 7 at 4pm and got into an argument ...

  • Diamond day for our firefighters

    BULLSBROOK Volunteer Fire Services will celebrate its 60th anniversary this Sunday. The Bullsbrook Volunteer Fire Brigade was established in 1953, when Swan Road Board made an application for registration of its Bullsbrook Brigade. Some of the most memorable moments came from the first summer of 1953-54 when a local tennis tournament was broken up when a fire call came. Most of the men who ...

  • Banning breeds will do little to reduce attacks says RSPCA

    THE RSPCA is against breed specific legislation on the basis that banning certain breeds of dogs does little to reduce dog attacks, according to spokesman Tim Mayne. "There was a case late last year where a six-year-old girl was mauled in Baldivis by five dogs," he said. "None of those dogs was on the banned dog list. "It depends on how the dogs were trained or possibly ...


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It's Complicated

It's Complicated

Its Complicated, Nancy Meyers posh new entry in her cottage industry of middle-age romantic comedies, suffers a particularly intense form of conspicuous consumption, a common malady that strikes many mainstream studio films of all genres, but especially Meyers films, inc ... ...

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  • Police rescue man lost at Lake Clifton

    ASHLEY Hobby (25) spent all day lost in Lake Clifton last Thursday and is grateful to the eight police officers who came to rescue him. Dressed in just jeans and a T-shirt, Mr Hobby walked about 30km in cold temperatures until he was found just after midnight on Friday. Mr Hobby, from Armadale, had been visiting his son in Preston Beach. He did not have a driver's licence and had planned ...

  • Safe sleep rule a must for all

    Concern has been raised over the number of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome fatalities occurring when a baby is being cared for by a secondary carer such as a grandparent, friend or babysitter.SIDS and Kids WA neonatal nurse and education officer Monnia Volpi-Wise estimated that a quarter of SIDS deaths in Australia happened when parents left someone else in charge.She questioned whether protective ...

  • Recycled sewage to water Perth parks

    The Water Corporation has flagged using recycled sewage to irrigate Perth's parks and gardens as dwindling rainfall forces the utility to adopt increasingly drastic measures to keep the city lush.As Perth endures another dry start to winter, the corporation will this morning release a report outlining a major increase in the way and extent to which water in the metropolitan area is ...

  • Top cop blasts booze industry

    Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan is expected to launch an extraordinary attack today on the liquor industry and politicians who baulk at a stand against WA's culture of youth alcohol abuse.Mr O'Callaghan is a keynote speaker at a National Alliance for Action on Alcohol forum in Canberra that is expected to attract the major political parties.Yesterday, he said he simply wants ...

  • Offenders rounded up in parole blitz

    A killer and a violent rapist who was jailed indefinitely are among a growing number of criminals returned to jail after breaching parole conditions as part of a police effort to clear long-term warrants.The regional investigation unit enforces return to prison warrants issued against convicted criminals who have breached their parole, for example, for failing drug tests, committing new crimes ...

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