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Mark Pownall is joined by Gary Adshead, Claire Tyrrell and Isabel Vieira to talk about the big events of the week in WA business and politics. In this edition they look at the Perth city council, biggest builders in WA, Satterley management changes, Equus ownership, Oxford Hotel, Innovaero, state funds Cliff Head and, of course, a brief word about the Dockers.

Puzzle number 1,202 of The New York Times’ Connections game challenged solvers Friday with a grid blending words for luxury, mechanical clock parts, a lineup of famous men named Dan, and a wordplay category built around altered scientific terms.

Connections presents players with 16 words that must be sorted into four hidden groups of four, with each group sharing a common category. The puzzle rates each group’s difficulty using a color system: yellow for the most straightforward connection, green for slightly trickier, blue for more difficult, and purple, typically the most wordplay-heavy or misleading group, as the hardest.

For those still working through Friday’s puzzle, here are hints for each category, organized loosely from easiest to hardest, without giving away the specific words involved.

One category groups together words that all describe something upscale, stylish or expensive, the kind of vocabulary someone might use to describe a lavish hotel or an extravagant outfit. A second category brings together technical components found inside a traditional mechanical clock, the kind of vocabulary a clockmaker or watch enthusiast would recognize immediately, even if it is less familiar to everyday puzzle solvers. A third category groups together the surnames of several well-known men who all share the same first name, spanning entertainment, journalism and advice writing. The fourth and trickiest category takes standard scientific vocabulary learned in a biology classroom and alters each word slightly by adding an extra letter, transforming familiar taxonomic terms into words that look similar but mean something entirely different.

SPOILER WARNING: The full solution to Friday’s Connections puzzle follows below. Stop reading now if you’d rather work through the categories on your own.

Friday’s puzzle resolved into the following four groups. The category Luxe consisted of BOUGIE, FANCY, POSH and SWANK, four words used to describe something stylish, upscale or extravagant. The category Parts of a Mechanical Clock grouped ESCAPEMENT, PENDULUM, RATCHET and SPRING, four technical components found inside traditional clockwork mechanisms. The category Famous Dans brought together AYKROYD, LEVY, RATHER and SAVAGE, referring respectively to actor and Ghostbusters co-creator Dan Aykroyd, Schitt’s Creek co-creator and star Dan Levy, longtime CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, and journalist and relationship advice columnist Dan Savage. The final and trickiest category, Taxonomic Ranks Plus a Letter, consisted of BORDER, CLASSY, FOAMILY and GENIUS, wordplay entries formed by adding a single letter to the standard biological classification terms “order,” “class,” “family” and “genus,” respectively.

Puzzle guides covering Friday’s grid noted that the clock-related category required more specialized, technical knowledge than the other groups, since words like “escapement” are unlikely to be part of most solvers’ everyday vocabulary despite being fundamental components of how mechanical clocks actually function. The famous-name category similarly demanded recognition of specific public figures rather than relying on word meaning alone, requiring solvers to correctly identify which surnames paired with the first name Dan. The purple wordplay category, meanwhile, rewarded solvers who inspected the words closely for hidden patterns, such as an unexpected extra letter, rather than searching for a more conventional thematic connection between the four entries.

Connections has grown into one of the Times’ most consistently played daily puzzles since its official launch in 2023, expanding the newspaper’s games portfolio well beyond its traditional crossword offerings. Puzzle guides recommend a general strategy of scanning the full grid first for any words that seem to share an obvious connection, then working through the remaining words methodically to identify less immediately apparent categories, an approach puzzle trackers said worked particularly well for Friday’s grid given how distinctly separate the puzzle’s four categories were from one another in terms of subject matter.

Players attempting Friday’s puzzle are permitted up to four incorrect guesses before the game ends, with each group color-coded upon a correct guess to indicate which of the four difficulty tiers it belongs to. Players looking to track their performance on Friday’s puzzle, or compare notes with friends, can share their results through Connections’ built-in results screen, which uses colored emoji squares to display a player’s guessing sequence without revealing the actual category words, a sharable format that has become a familiar sight across social media in the years since the game’s launch.

With Friday’s puzzle now solved, players will have a fresh set of 16 words and four new hidden categories to work through when Saturday’s edition of Connections goes live at midnight local time, continuing the daily puzzle’s steady run as one of the Times’ most widely shared games alongside Wordle, Strands and the Mini Crossword.

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Business News subscriptions are used by executives, investors, consultants and professionals who need to stay informed and make better decisions about the WA market. When you subscribe you’ll get

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• Data & Insights — detailed profiles of WA companies, people, projects and deals
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• Special publications and industry reports
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• Research live and completed projects across WA industries
• Monitor deals, appointments and market activity
• Access industry rankings and league tables

Data & Insights is updated daily by our dedicated research team, which uses the latest announcements, ASX filings and editorial coverage to keep our person, company, list and project records up to date.

Business News welcome all opportunities to make our dataset accurate, complete and current, so if you have an update request, please email the team at
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The council said the acquisition was part of its homelessness support strategy

Cardiff Council has acquired a 40 apartment building as part of efforts to tackle homelessness in the city.

In a multi-million-pound deal, the exact value of which has not been disclosed, the council has acquired Lime Tree Mansions on Whitchurch Road in the Maindy area of the city.

The council has bought the apartment scheme from JCPS Homes. Law firm Hugh James acted the council on the deal.

Lynda Thorne, Cardiff Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities, said: “Cardiff continues to face significant housing and homelessness pressures, which is why we have been exploring a wider range of delivery options alongside our new-build programme to help meet the urgent need for affordable housing.

“The acquisition of Lime Tree Mansions represents an important investment that will enable us to provide additional temporary accommodation for households in need, while supporting our wider efforts to improve housing outcomes across the city.

2We are grateful to Hugh James for their expert support throughout the transaction, helping us secure this acquisition and take another important step towards delivering the homes and housing support that Cardiff residents need.”

The apartments are currently vacate.

The Hugh James team was led by senior associate in the firm’s commercial property team, Kylie Underhill. She said: “We are proud to have supported Cardiff Council on the acquisition of Lime Tree Mansions.

This was an important transaction for the Council and one which required a focused and collaborative approach to meet the required timeframe. It is always rewarding to support public sector clients on acquisitions which have the potential to deliver real benefit to local communities.”

The deal further reinforces Hugh James’ experience in advising local authorities and public sector bodies on strategic property acquisitions, including residential, regeneration and investment-led projects.

Caroline O’Flaherty partner in Hugh James’ commercial property team said: “This is a fantastic result and reflects the strength of our Commercial Property team’s public sector expertise. We are proud to have assisted Cardiff Council in its continuing strides to provide vital housing across the city.”

Last year the council acquired the former prime office Scott Harbour building in Cardiff Bay from Rightacres.

In a £28.5m investment Cardiff Council has provided 78 apartments as permanent tenancies. The apartments are mainly occupied by families as part of its strategy of addressing a critical shortage of affordable homes.

LONDON — Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, may be among the most recognizable royals in the world, but according to a former palace employee, staff members saved their contact information under a set of far less regal nicknames, alongside details of how heavily the royal family has relied on WhatsApp to stay in touch with relatives and staff.

Jack Stooks, a former royal gardener who worked for King Charles at Highgrove for decades, shared the details in an interview with GB News, describing how the royal family communicated privately both with each other and with staff. “The Royal Family are big WhatsApp users,” Stooks said, describing a range of group chats used across the family, including one for friends and a separate family group that included Prince William, Zara Tindall, Peter Phillips, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.

According to Stooks, senior royals shared their personal phone numbers with trusted members of staff to allow for more practical, direct communication. He said both William and Prince Harry actively encouraged aides to contact them through the messaging app whenever needed, rather than relying solely on more formal channels. To protect their privacy, however, staff reportedly avoided saving the royals under their real names, instead using coded nicknames. Stooks revealed that William was listed in staff phones as “Bobcat,” while Harry went by “Baz.” Following Kate’s marriage to William, she was reportedly added to contacts as “Mrs Bobcat.”

Beyond the nicknames themselves, Stooks offered a broader account of William’s working style with palace staff, describing him as considerate of employees’ existing workloads. He said the Prince of Wales made a habit of checking whether staff members were already busy before asking them for additional help, and that William would often thank staff afterward by telling them, “You’re a legend.”

Stooks also reflected on King Charles’ relationship with technology during his time working at Highgrove, describing the monarch as considerably less engaged with mobile devices than his sons. According to Stooks, Charles owned a simple mobile phone but rarely used it regularly during that period. Stooks said William and Harry frequently encouraged their father to embrace newer technology, but that Charles generally preferred a more traditional approach and showed limited interest in using his phone on a consistent basis.

The account offers a rare glimpse into the more informal, day-to-day dynamics between senior royals and the staff who work closely with them, a side of royal life that rarely receives public attention given the family’s general preference for formality in public-facing communications. The described use of WhatsApp for both personal and work-related messaging reflects a broader pattern common across many modern workplaces and families, even as the specific coded nicknames used to protect the royals’ identities in staff members’ phones point to the particular privacy and security considerations that come with working in close proximity to some of the world’s most closely watched public figures.

Stooks’ comments add to a broader body of insider accounts from former royal staff members that have periodically surfaced in British media over the years, offering the public occasional windows into aspects of royal family life that differ considerably from the family’s carefully managed public image. Such accounts typically cannot be independently verified beyond the credibility of the individual sharing them, and neither Kensington Palace nor representatives for William, Kate or Harry have issued any public confirmation or denial of the specific details Stooks described regarding the nicknames or the family’s use of WhatsApp.

The revelations arrive at a moment of heightened public attention on the relationship between William and Harry more broadly, following Harry and Meghan Markle’s return to the United Kingdom in late August and the more recent publication of excerpts from Charles Spencer’s memoir about Princess Diana, both of which have kept the royal family’s internal dynamics under close media scrutiny in recent weeks. Against that backdrop, lighter anecdotes such as Stooks’ account of staff nicknames and WhatsApp habits offer a notable contrast to the more serious and often tense coverage that has otherwise characterized recent reporting on relations between the brothers.

Stooks’ extended tenure working at Highgrove, King Charles’ private residence in Gloucestershire, gave him a vantage point on the family’s private habits and communications that few outside the household would typically have access to, lending a degree of specificity to his account that has helped it circulate widely since it was first published. Even so, as with most insider accounts from former staff, the details remain unverified beyond Stooks’ own recollection and cannot be independently confirmed through any official palace source.

With no official response yet issued addressing the specific claims about the royal family’s phone nicknames or messaging habits, Stooks’ account is likely to remain one of several recent behind-the-scenes anecdotes shaping public perception of the more private, informal side of royal family life, even as the family’s official public engagements continue to be defined by considerably more formal presentation.

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