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Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Wednesday, November 19.
Making headlines today a new university campus opening in Perth’s CBD has driven renewed interest from developers, with figures revealing more student-specific accommodation is in the pipeline to cater for an incoming spike in demand.
According to figures from the Property Council, 2514 student beds will soon become available based on developments currently under construction, with a further 721 beds included in approved developments and 3265 more beds under application – a total of 6500 in the pipeline.
ECU City will extend from Perth Busport to Yagan Square.
Meanwhile, thieves are so desperate for West Australian gold that one man was recently caught forcing his way into a mine site gold room with an angle grinder – right in front of a hidden WA Police camera.
Despite the gold price hovering above a record $5000 an ounce this year – it’s currently sitting at about $6224 an ounce – a detective on the front-line catching gold crooks says their desperation has nothing to do with the market price.
And a simple test proved to be the difference between life and death for Australind teacher and father of four Ross Hillier, who was told he had developed prostate cancer on his 18th wedding anniversary.
Stay with us as we bring you the local news of the day as it happens.
