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  • Calls for more options for country students

    WA The State Opposition has urged the government to consider allowing remote schools to continue teaching the Year 7 curriculum beyond 2015.From 2015, children will begin high school in Year 7 rather than Year 8, which means many country students will start boarding school a year earlier.Labor MP Darren West says the government has failed to consider the economic, social and emotional effects ...

  • Campaign to take guns from criminals

    NEARLY 60 guns were stolen in WA last month it's been revealed, as police launch a campaign to get illegal and stolen guns out of the hands of ...

  • Nervous wait for news of panda pregnancy

    AN Australian professor who specialises in endangered species reproduction is nervously awaiting news on the potential pregnancy of giant panda Tian Tian in ...

  • Woman ploughs into primary school library

    The woman's car crashed into the Tranby Primary School library on Acton Avenue, Rivervale about 10.30am.The woman received only minor injuries and St John Ambulance attended, but fortunately no children or school staff were ...

  • Australia set for a drenching

    After a hot, dry start to the year, Australia is in for a drenching over the next three months, a weather forecaster says.Sky News senior meteorologist Tom Saunders says a pattern of warm seas off the west coast of Indonesia and cool seas off the east coast of Africa - known as a negative Indian Ocean Dipole - will likely make for a wet winter for most of the country."A negative IOD is the ...


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Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) [DVD]

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) [DVD]

Wings of Desire, which marked director Wim Wenders return to his native Germany after more than a decade making films in other countries, is dedicated to all the old angels, especially Yasujiro [Ozu], Franois [Truffaut], and Andrei [Tarkovsky]--all of whom are cinematic mast ... ...

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  • Illegal firearms targeted by police

    WA Police are targeting illegal firearms as part of an Australia-wide campaign to stamp out gun crime.Operation Unification will run until June 7 and is aimed at removing dangerous weapons from the hands of criminals.State Crime acting commander Tony Flack said members of the public could help police by reporting information about illegal firearms."It's hoped the initiative will result ...

  • Christmas Island captain port master criticised

    A catalogue of errors by a ship's captain and port master led to the crew of a cargo ship being forced to abandon the vessel as it was battered on rocks at Christmas Island, safety inspectors have concluded.In January 2012, mooring lines on the 4000-tonne, Panama-registered MV Tycoon broke free, causing the ship to slam into cliffs and a crane pylon at Flying Fish Cove.As the ship's ...

  • Man charged over Narrogin death

    Police have charged a 48-year-old man over the fatal stabbing of a woman at a house in Narrogin at the weekend.Charmaine Louise Winmar, 36, was found dead in an Ensign Street home about 11.30am on Saturday.On Tuesday night, major crime detectives asked for the public's assistance in finding Kevin James Corbett after a 43-year-old man was questioned over her death and released without ...

  • Woman pleads guilty to causing babys death

    Merriwa 6030 A 35-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to causing the death of a baby boy when she crashed her car into his bedroom in suburban Perth.Melissa Ann Waters was under the influence of alcohol when she lost control of her utility and drove into the house in Merriwa in January.Eight-month-old Nate Dunbar died at the ...

  • Drunk driver admits babys crash death

    A 35-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to causing the death of a baby boy while he slept in his nursery in Perth's northern ...

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