#PERTH’S tough hospitality sector; Trustee Bar and Bistro has administrators appointed to company

PERTH’S tough hospitality sector has claimed another high-profile victim, with administrators being put into celebrated chef Scott Taylor’s Trustee bar and restaurant in Brookfield Place on St Georges Terrace in the CBD.

Administrators from Cor Cordis were appointed on Monday to the company behind the Trustee and the Beaufort Street Merchant in Mt Lawley.

The Trustee will continue to trade while Cor Cordis explores a sale or a restructuring. The future of the Beaufort Street Merchant is more uncertain.

The administration reflects an increasingly tough environment for Perth’s accomplished restaurants, with operators saying low revenues, weak margins and high labour costs are making it difficult to turn sustainable profits.

It is believed more than 5000 covers have been added to the Perth restaurant scene in the past two years alone, despite still fragile consumer confidence and cautious spending by householders.

A number of posh restaurants have opted to close or convert to casual dining. They include the flagship Print Hall restaurant in Brookfield Place, with owners Colonial Leisure Group reopening the venue recently as the Gazette Osteria.

MORE: Trustee Bar and Bistro has administrators appointed to company | Perth Now

Japanese man arrested after parts of nine bodies found in apartment:

Japanese man arrested after parts of nine bodies found in apartment: media https://t.co/k1KyJ8FxN2 http://pic.twitter.com/2WHeY3b6Sg

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 31, 2017

Appeals Court Deals Blow to Trump’s Travel Ban. 24,000 vetted refugees can enter U.S.

A federal appeals court ruled that 24,000 vetted refugees may enter the country while the Supreme Court weighs the legality of the administration’s plan to suspend travel to the U.S. from six Muslim-majority countries,

More: Appeals Court Deals Blow to Trump’s Travel Ban – WSJ

Video: Underworld hit in Sydney. …survived being shot several times V/CLIP

#EXCLUSIVE video of an underworld hit in Sydney. How the victim survived being shot several times at close range. Tonight @ 5 #TenNews http://pic.twitter.com/636KgKqQ5I

— TEN News Sydney (@TenNewsSydney) August 29, 2017

Kim Kardashian Continues To Push Boundaries With Another Sheer Top

Freeing the nipple, one top at a time.

If something isn’t sheer, Kim Kardashian doesn’t want to wear it.

The reality star was spotted out on Tuesday night in New York City rocking a sheer black tank top (which could also be a body suit) with camo shorts cut just above the knee.

She kept the rest of her outfit simple with minimal jewelry, vintage Versace sunglasses and sparkly silver heels:

Kardashian has gone sheer a few times in the past few weeks. She recently wore a sheer skirt at the opening of a Balmain store in Beverly Hills, rocked a sheer Gucci bra during a trip to New York City in early July and ensured all eyes were on her with a transparent mesh outfit.

Somehow, though, none of the looks come close to her most revealing see-through outfits.

Source: Kim Kardashian Continues To Push Boundaries With Another Sheer Top

Former North Melbourne star Glenn Archer charged with assault following junior game scuffle

Former AFL star and two-time premiership winner Glenn Archer has been charged with unlawful assault after alleged incident at junior football game.

Victoria Police said they charged a 44-year-old Warrandyte man on Monday afternoon.

More to come. 

Source: Former North Melbourne star Glenn Archer charged with assault following junior game scuffle

#F1 McLaren reaching ‘fork in the road’ with ‘lost’ Honda – “serious concerns”

McLaren is nearing a “fork in the road” in its Honda relationship, with executive director Zak Brown expressing “serious concerns” about the Japanese manufacturer’s ability to recover from its current situation.

McLaren is rooted to the bottom of the constructors’ championship having failed to score a point this season, mainly due to Honda’s third consecutive failure to produce a competitive or reliable engine. Honda was due to bring an upgrade to the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend but looks set to miss that deadline.

After watching Fernando Alonso’s bid to win last month’s Indy 500 thwarted by a Honda engine failure, Brown said “all options are on the table”. The American has hinted that the latest disappointment has tested his patience.

“Honda’s working very hard but they seem a bit lost,” Brown told Reuters

Source: McLaren reaching ‘fork in the road’ with ‘lost’ partner Honda

Man jailed abandoned blind girlfriend beating her, leaving her lost, helpless Alice Springs desert

A man has been jailed for abandoning his blind, hearing-impaired girlfriend in remote bushland south of Alice Springs after badly beating her.

Kenneth Mututa, then 53, punched his girlfriend in the face, leaving her with a cut lip and a loose tooth, before ditching her in a remote stretch of bushland near Alice Springs in November 2015.

Mututa was sentenced this week to two years and six months jail when he pleaded guilty to two aggravated assaults and for failing to provide his girlfriend, 36, with the necessities of life, the NT News reports.

The badly beaten woman, who suffers from end-stage renal failure and required immediate dialysis treatment, fell asleep and only woke to a passing train later that night.

The woman, described in court as ‘lost, helpless and completely vulnerable’ tried to make her way back to safety by walking towards the sound of the train and following the tracks back into town.

When she reached the tracks she turned in the wrong direction and inadvertently walked further out into the desert.

 The woman, described in court as ‘lost, helpless and completely vulnerable’ tried to make her way back to safety by walking towards the sound of the train and following the train tracks back into town

She was only discovered when she was almost hit by a second train, which ultimately stopped to help her.

Speaking in the Supreme Court this week, Justice Trevor Riley said Mututa’s crime was ‘particularly callous’.

‘It was mere good fortune that she was not killed or badly injured,’ Justice Riley said.

‘Had the train not arrived, and the operators been so observant, she could easily have perished while walking south rather than north.’

MORE HERE: Man jailed abandoned blind girlfriend Alice Springs desert | Daily Mail Online

Facebook crashes in Australia and Asia `

Global social networking giant Facebook crashed on all platforms in parts of Australia and Asia on Tuesday.

Thousands of social media users took to Twitter to report issues accessing the multi-billion dollar network just after 11am.

Facebook was reported as going down across large chunks of Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia and India, according to website downdetector.com.

‘Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,’ was the error message users got when attempting to log in on their devices.

Social media was quickly lit up with humorous messages from users unable to cope with the crash.

‘Oh god! The apocalypse is here! How do I even talk to someone face to face,’ one person wrote.

‘Things to do while Facebook is down: 1. Refresh Facebook until it comes back online. That’s all I got,’ joked another.

‘We don’t mean to alarm you but FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!! How will we know what you ate for lunch?,’ tweeted NSW Police.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Facebook for comment.

Source: Facebook crashes in Australia and Asia | Daily Mail Online

Whiskey A Go Go owner Mario Maglieri dead. Godfather figure for rock legends

Mario Maglieri (left with the Doors’ Manzarek), owned Hollywood clubs Whiskey Go Go (inset) and Rainbow Bar & Grill andwas connected to rock legends like Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister (right)

The Hollywood entrepreneur who doubled as a godfather figure to generations of rock stars from the Doors’ Jim Morrison to Guns ‘N Roses’ Axl Rose, has died.

Mario Maglieri died Thursday morning at the age of 93 ‘surrounded by loved ones,’ his family said in a statement.

For decades he operated two of Hollywood’s most venerable and legendary Sunset Strip nightclubs – the Whiskey A Go Go and the Rainbow Bar & Grill.

‘Rest In Peace Mario Maglieri King of The Sunset Strip,’ the marquee over the Whiskey proclaimed Friday.

It was at the Whiskey that the Doors found a following as the house band in the 1960s. Over the years Led Zeppelin, the Police, Van Halen and literally hundreds of other acts spanning generations have played there.

The Beatles dropped by for a visit during their first U.S. tour in 1964. George Harrison, annoyed by a paparazzi, threw a drink at him, hitting actress Mamie Van Doren instead.

At the Rainbow, Maglieri would keep many of his musicians in booze and food, occasionally having to throw one or more of them out when they caused too much trouble.

For decades Maglieri, ran two of Hollywood’s most popular Sunset Strip nightclubs the Whiskey A Go Go and Rainbow Bar & Grill. This photo, taken in 1965, shows Go-go dancers perform the Watusi in a cage suspended from the ceiling at the Whiskey a Go-Go night club in West Hollywood, California…

MORE HERE: Whiskey A Go Go owner Mario Maglieri died at the age of 93 | Daily Mail Online

5 major NSW trafficking routes uncovered. $2.4 million found in a trucker’s trailer

Police have uncovered a network of routes that orgainsed crime figures use to traffic weapons, drugs and cash.

Traffic & Highway Patrol Command Assistant Commissioner Michael Corboy named the Hume, Sturt, Newell, Silver City and Barrier highways as the major routes for contraband smuggling.

‘Our dedicated officers are trained to expect the unexpected when it comes to stopping a vehicle, especially on these highways,’ Mr Corboy said.

‘Based on the arrests we have seen, there is no such thing as a ‘routine vehicle stop’.’

A number of high profile arrests have been made on the roads in recent times including a 41-year-old truck driver being allegedly found with $2.4 million in cash in his trailer.

Adrian Miller was pulled over for a routine inspection on the Sturt Hwy just over the Victorian border in Mildura , in Victoria’s north-west, on April 5.

Drugs were also allegedly found in Miller’s trailer and he refused to cooperate with the police or reveal any details about the operation.

He did not apply for bail when he appeared at Mildura Magistrates’ Court.

In January police found ‘in excess’ of $1.5 million in a car pulled over for a routine stop on the Hume Hwy at Goulburn.

The vehicle was stopped after police received a tip off and searched the car.

Concealed in the car was $1.2 million in bundles of $10,000 amounts while the owner co operated and helped identify a further $317,000.

On the Silver City Highway in November, $20,000 worth of drugs was allegedly found inside a tin of baby formula when a driver was pulled over for a random breath test in far west NSW.

MORE HERE: Five major NSW trafficking routes named | Daily Mail Online

Nine biopic of Alan Bond is mocked on Twitter over casting

Earlier this year, Seven Network faced a backlash for casting Josh Lawson as Paul Hogan in a biopic of the Crocodile Dundee star, despite their lack of physical resemblance.

And it appears Channel Nine should prepare for a similar reaction to miniseries House Of Bond, which follows the life of disgraced businessman Alan Bond.

Actor Ben Mingay has been cast in the lead role, but as the network begins to air promos it is already being remarked he does not look like the late entrepreneur.

MORE HERE: Nine biopic of Alan Bond is mocked on Twitter over casting | Daily Mail Online

Scott Eastwood shows off his rippling abs at Bondi Beach

Scott Eastwood went shirtless at Bondi Beach, showing off his rippling abs

Source: Scott Eastwood shows off his rippling abs at Bondi Beach | Daily Mail Online