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RAZED CY O’CONNOR PUB VOWS TO RETURN

Posted on June 7th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Popular Perth local the CY O'Connor Village pub was consumed by a blaze over the weekend, but the owners are vowing to rebuild. Emergency services were called to the CYO in Piara Waters, a suburb of south Perth, around 5:30pm

TWO STOREY FIRE TAKES OUTBACK ICON

Posted on February 12th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A major fire on Wednesday night has destroyed the historic Two Storey Hotel in the outback town of Tibooburra. Tibooburra is the most north-western precinct in the state, almost 1200 kilometres from Sydney, near both the South Australian and Queensland

NSW BUDGET TO SHOUT EVERYONE FOOD AND FUN

Posted on November 18th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The NSW budget announced yesterday has flagged $100 in hospitality vouchers for every adult in the State in a $500 million bid to help re-start the sector. The budget has earmarked four $25 'Out & About vouchers', to be spent

ICONIC SPOTTED DOG DESTROYED

Posted on July 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
A massive fire has destroyed the popular Spotted Dog Tavern and adjacent backpackers hostel in Bundaberg. Around 11pm on Monday night a fire broke out at the Spotted Dog, on Bourbong Street, formerly known as the Federal Hotel. The blaze

PUB-GOER ‘NEARLY DIES’ CHOKING ON MEAL

Posted on July 8th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
News has emerged that a woman nearly choked to death on a fragment from a meal in an Adelaide pub, but was saved by prompt action. Local mother Lisa Heaven was recently eating beef ribs in the Hurley Group’s Marion

OSCARS TO BUILD SHELL COVE HOTEL

Posted on December 13th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The Gravanis brothers’ Oscars Hotels has won the deal to construct a new mixed-use hotel at Frasers Property’s multi-billion-dollar Shell Cove development. This week Shellharbour City Council and Frasers announced Oscars had been granted the right to the new as-yet

800-YEAR-OLD UK PUB FOR SALE FOR A SONG

Posted on November 8th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The once-thriving now lamented Mill Beach pub in Essex, UK, has been mysteriously put to market by its mystery owner for a token £1. The building found on the shores of the man-made lake on what used to be known

CROWN LINKS WITH ASIAN CRIME GANGS REVEALED

Posted on July 29th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
There is renewed focus on casino regulation as Crown is accused of systemic breaches around money laundering and impropriety, and a report finds rising rates of alcohol-related violence. In April this year a Victorian judge released a 2013 interview of

‘LUCKY NO-ONE KILLED’ AS NIGHTCLUB WALL COLLAPSES

Posted on July 5th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Authorities are investigating the cause of a partial wall collapse in busy nightclub The Library last weekend, with police suggesting it was lucky no-one was killed. The Library, in Northbridge – Perth's entertainment district – was hosting an event called