Tag: gold coast
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TOURISM LEADERS LAY OUT PLANS FOR NEXT 12 MONTHS
When it comes to Coastal getaways… It seems our city has fallen off the radar for many of the world’s internet users. How to fix that problem was one hot topic, at a meeting of Tourism Industry leaders.
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KILLER WATTS DETERMINED TO RETURN
Former bikie Anthony Watts is determined to make a return to the NRL, despite suffering a devastating knee injury. Watts ruptured his patella tendon in his first game for South Newcastle after relocating from the Gold Coast. The 28-year-old played more than 50 games in a short but powerful NRL career. It was followed…
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TWO TEENAGE GIRLS MISSING FROM GOLD COAST
Two teenage girls who went missing from the Gold Coast on Thursday night may be heading to Victoria. Holly Goodwin, aged 14, and Emma Howarth, aged 13, went missing from Emma’s home in Mudgeeraba about 7pm on Thursday. Emma’s parents have launched a campaign to find the pair, who are believed to be travelling south.…
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AN END OF AN ERA FOR THE MCINALLY’S
Davenport Street at Southport sure is changing. After 50 years as a cobbler… Len and his wife Megan, much-loved owners of McInally’s- are shutting up shop.
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COUNCIL SEEKS FEDERAL SUPPORT TO BLOCK ILS
Gold Coast City Council’s made its position clear on controversial plans to install an instrument landing system at the Airport. It will now write to the Federal Government, opposing the navigation aid, which would direct loud passenger planes over coastal suburbs.
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STEM CELL TREATMENT ARRIVES FOR LEUKAEMIA PATIENTS
In a major medical step forward, Gold Coast University Hospital has started stem cell treatment for leukaemia patients. The procedure will allow them to recover from chemotherapy, much closer to home.
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COUNCIL TO OPPOSE CONTROVERSIAL ILS
The Airport won’t fly any test planes over Surfers and Burleigh as it works to install an instrument landing system. That confirmation comes as the city’s Planning Committee today voted to oppose the ILS.
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POLICE RAID MOLENDINAR SHOP IN BIKIE MASSIVE CRACKDOWN
A Taskforce Maxima operation- spanning three years- has come to a dramatic end. 50 search warrants were executed across Queensland. This morning more than a dozen Federal Police and Taskforce Maxima officers swooped on a car supplies store in Molendinar. A self-proclaimed Mongols member- already on bail accused of dealing drugs, and stealing bulldog puppies-…
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GROM PADDLE FOR WORLD SURF RESERVE
A group of six groms has paddled ten kilometres, all the way from Snapper Rocks to Palm Beach. They’re campaigning to have southern Gold Coast Beaches turned into a World Surfing Reserve, that will prevent development. But the group say Surf Reserve title won’t get in the way of activities on the beach. They’re now lobbying…
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RON CLARKE PASSES AT 78
World champion runner and former Gold Coast mayor, Ron Clarke has died at the age of 78. His prominence on the athletics track in the 1950s and 1960s made him one of Australia’s greatest middle and distance runners. Clarke had a succession of atheltic feats, setting 17 world records in his time. In 1956 at…