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• North Perth child sex accused Vincenzo Mule named after ...

  

  A man accused of sexually assaulting two children taken from a North Perth child care centre can now be identified as Vincenzo Mule, after a court amended a suppression order allowing his name to be published.A suppression order preventing the media from publishing any images of the 52-year-old North Perth man remains in place.  CCTV footage led to the arrest of Vincenzo Mule in relation to North Perth child sex attack.  Outside court on Wednesday, Detective Sergeant Mariano Calzada from ..

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• Push for Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi to resign over travel expenses

  

  Push for Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi to resign over travel expenses Posted May 11, 2016 16:01:31 There is increasing political pressure on Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi to resign in the wake of the findings of a six-month inquiry by the Department of Local Government into her travel expenses. Key Points: Opposition wants Lisa Scaffidi to resign over undeclared travel expensesTribunal will examine findings she failed to declare more than 35 tripsBarnett, Local Gov..

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• The plane is coming - An-225 heads to Perth

  

  The plane is coming - An-225 heads to Perth Geoffrey Thomas, Aviation Editor - The West Australian on May 11, 2016, 1:27 pm Video World’s biggest aircraft lands The giant of the skies is on its way!Yesterday the six engine An-225 flew from its base at Kiev to Prague to pick up a massive generator.MORE BIG PLANE NEWSTomorrow the Antonov will take off at 7am local time and fly 3185km to Turkmenbasy International Airport in Turkmenistan for a refuelling stop.It then flies 3545km..

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• A woman has died in a house fire in Perth. (9NEWS)

  

  A woman has died in a house fire in Perth. (9NEWS) A woman has died after fire tore through her home in Perth's south-east, with horrified neighbours reporting seeing her running from the house with her clothes alight.Firefighters were called to the home on Lovegrove Court in Byford just before 10.30am today.Neighbours attempted to douse the flames after they heard screaming but were unable to save the woman, who is believed to be the mother of a young child. The woman died in the driveway of t..

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• WA man held over IS-Syria boat plot

  

  Men arrested after trying to join IS in Syria2:25Five men have been arrested over a plan to join IS by sailing to Indonesia before flying to Syria. THE brother of hard-line WA Islamic preacher Junaid Thorne is one of five men arrested by Federal Police over an alleged plan to pilot a boat to Indonesia and join ISIS.According to The Courier Mail, Shayden Thorne and Musa Cerantonio are among those who were arrested in Cairns, in north Queensland.Shayden Thorne is the brother of former Perth man s..

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• Perth man jailed for attacking grandmother's car

  

  A Perth man has been jailed after showering a grandmother in broken glass when he punched her car window on a highway.Anwar Hautapu was in the passenger seat when the Holden Astra he was travelling in pulled alongside the 56-year-old woman in Cockburn, in Perth's south, last October, the Cockburn Gazette reports. Hautapu leaned out of the window, yelled abuse at the woman and threw something at her car as he drove past. He then stopped in front of her, prompting the woman, identified only as L..

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• Here's where rents are falling

  

  The annual change in rents continues at its slowest pace since 1996. Picture: ThinkstockIT’S ONLY a modest movement, but combined capital city rents are down and all signs point towards more of the same. That’s good news for renters (and bad news for landlords) particularly in Perth and Darwin where rents have taken a battering.While the year on year combined city dwelling (that’s houses and units) rental rate is down just 0.2 per cent (to $486 a week), the CoreLogic April monthly rental review ..

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• Hyundai A-League season review: Perth Glory

  

  Perth Glory overcame a horror start to end the Hyundai A-League season with plenty of highs and a berth in the Finals Series. We examine Glory’s campaign and look ahead to 2016/17. Position: 5th Record: Played 27, Won 13, Drawn 4, Lost 10 Goals: 49 Conceded: 42 Leading Goal Scorer:  Diego Castro (13) Best home crowd: 14,504 – Round 26 against Melbourne City Star performer: Diego Castro In a season with a real Spanish flavour right throughout the A-League, Glory’s special Spaniard stoo..

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• Perth man drove at 180km/h through tunnel, crashed car then hid ...

  

  Police have charged a man with 'inherently dangerous' reckless driving after he allegedly drove a sedan at up to 180 km/h on Graham Farmer Freeway and slammed it into the concrete dividing barrier. The man drove a Honda Accord east through the tunnel at 170-180km/h, WA Police spokeswoman Susan Usher said.  Police have spent the past five days searching for the man after the incident in the East Perth tunnel.   He just missed rear-ending another car exiting the tunnel, then swerved and spu..

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• Rayney lawyer hopeful of mediation success

  

  Lloyd Rayney with his lawyer Martin Bennett. Picture: Marie NirmeLAWYERS for Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney are prepared to go to trial over a multi-million-dollar defamation case against the State Government, but still hope the matter can be resolved through mediation.Mr Rayney is suing the WA government for being named by a senior police officer in 2007 as the “prime and only” suspect in the murder of his estranged wife, Corryn.He was found not guilty of murdering the mother-of-two in 2012 and a..

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