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A middle-aged couple accused of stealing a wrought-iron bench from a Nedlands office building last month appear to have been spotted on CCTV stealing vases from a Subiaco flower display for Subi Blooms.
The footage shows the couple wrenching free vases that had been affixed to a table, before the man holds a flower to his nose and sniffs it.
Distinctive shoes worn at the scenes of both of brazen thefts appear to link the two cases.
“They’re committing a crime for the beautification of their garden,” owner Hamish Vinnicombe owner of the iron bench said last month.
Story in Ben Dickinson’s police beat on page 20 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
Drivers on Brockway Road in Mt Claremont will have to slow to 60kmh after Main Roads agreed to drop the limit to save trees on its median strip.
“We are losing our tree canopy,” new mayor Leonie Browner said, “We need to take safety seriously, we need to be taking trees seriously.”
Story on page 11 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
An upright solution for crowded suburban cemeteries may provide the space needed to cater for WA’s growing and dying population.
But Karrakatta Cemetery officials said legislation changes to allow stand-up burials – in which bodies are frozen and then interred vertically – would be required before the practice could start in Perth.
Karrakatta has been full since 2004, but moves headstones around to free up enough space to create up to 500 new graves a year.
Upright Burials started operating in Victoria in 2010 in response to cemetery overcrowding.
Managing director Tony Dupleix said early resistance from people who considered upright burials “horrifying” had given way to strong support.
Story on page 32 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
Subiaco addiction doctor George O’Neil has begun treating patients again this week, despite health regulators banning him from prescribing certain drugs.
Patients had been turned away from Townshend Road clinic Fresh Start, which has been treating addiction patients for 29 years.
Story on page 11 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
Luciano Barbershop has made a habit of sticking with tradition for 60 years.
Luciano Ligovich said he let his scissors do the talking for nearly half a century when he began cutting men’s hair in Nedlands in 1966, before he eventually wound up in Claremont Quarter.
A Parkinson’s diagnosis prompted his retirement in 2011, a little earlier than expected, and he handed the business over to his understudy Josie Doria, who kept the Luciano name.
Luciano returned this week to celebrate the business’s 60-year anniversary.
Story on page 6 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
A 3ha section of Bold Park has been set alight in the name of science.
Research scientist Russell Miller said the long-awaited burn went “exactly as we planned”.
“Part of the research is to see how fire regimes impact with fauna,” Dr Miller said.
Story on page 7 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
Claremont Drapers is set to return to Bay View Terrace 20 years after crippling rents forced it to move to Cottesloe.
The shop that started in Claremont in 1914 and became a district landmark will return for at least six months after developer Jeff Leach offered owner Mary Gatica-Evans a temporary home on Bay View Terrace.
Mary had originally been snubbed from Claremont after being told her shop was not chic enough for the St Quentin Avenue strip (pictured).
“After the wonderful frontpage article, quite a few people rang to say they had a spot here or there,” she said, “Jeff was one of them who got his lady to come and see me.”
“I seem to be following the developers.”
Story on page 5 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
In a floral display of “waste not want not,” installations from the Subi Blooms X Gather festival were recycled and repackaged as soon as the weekend-long event finished last Sunday.
Newly minted mums and dads at St John of God and King Edward Memorial hospitals in Subiaco received flower bouquets from the council.
Story on page 5 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
Cottesloe’s iconic Boatshed Market was sold this week.
The new owners Mark Somic, of Dalkeith, and Joe Stevens run a similar business in Singapore and said they were keen to keep the popular food destination as it is, taking its lessons to their Asian business.
Joe said he had been keen to buy the Boatshed since Mark introduced him to it in 2018.
“We fell in love with it, and we’ve been courting Craig and Michael ever since… It was literally the nicest all-natural gourmet grocer on the planet,” he said.
Story on page 3 of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
At least nine brushtail possums have died in Mosman Park bushland in the past month after suspected poisoning with blue rat bait.
“It’s distressing smelling and then finding dead possum after dead possum,” Fairbairn Street resident Tony Bower said.
“Most of the locals are very upset with what has happened and angry that someone might be deliberately poisoning the possums.”
Story on the front page of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
Curtin MP Kate Chaney has taken credit for the Federal Government’s controversial roll- back of tax concessions for property investors, telling the POST that she and other Teal MPs “destigmatised” the idea.
“The Government was terrified of touching it because of the political history,” she said.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers used his Budget speech on Tuesday to effectively end a 25-year-old tax regime that he said gave an unfair advantage to property investors over first-home buyers and drove up house prices.
Story on the front page of this week’s POST: postnewspapers.com.au
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