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• Two airlifted to the Cairns Hospital after Captain Cook Highway ...

  The QGAIR Rescue 510 helicopter at Rex Lookout on the Captain Cook Highway to transport patients from a collision between two vehicles. PICTURE: SUPPLIEDUPDATE: A MAN and a woman suffered serious injuries in a two vehicle traffic crash that occurred in Wangetti yesterday morning.Around 11.20am, two vehicles collided head-on on the Captain Cook Highway approximately 1.2km north of the Rex Lookout.The driver of one vehicle, a 38-year-old woman, sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was trans..

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• Robbery with violence, Cairns

  

  Police are investigating after a 24-year-old woman was assaulted and robbed in Cairns yesterday afternoon. Around 5pm, the woman was walking with a second woman away from a shopping centre towards Bunda Street when a female has pushed the woman, causing her to stumble and lose one of her shoes. As the woman bent to retrieve the shoe, the female has grabbed a sunglasses case that fell from the woman’s bag and then demanded money. The female then approached the 24-year-old woman and punched h..

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• Cairns overnight media wrap, Thursday June 9

  Child pornography charges, Cairns: Detectives from the Cairns Child Protection Investigation Unit yesterday charged a 40-year-old Manunda man following investigations into the alleged possession of child exploitation and pornography images. Officers had executed a search warrant at the man’s Hollet Close address on April 19 and seized a computer tablet and a laptop device. The devices were subsequently forensically examined and items of data of interest to the investigation were allegedly recov..

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• The Cairns Post Bright Night Run on June 10

  

  One team dressed up and ready to race in 2015 The Cairns Post Bright Night Run will kick off on Friday June 10 with competitors starting from 6pm. Participants will be using the public footpaths and cycle paths from the Lagoon Park to Smith Street from between 5.30pm and 7.30pm. There’ll be laser lights and plenty of fun as the course participants make their way along the glowing course. The Cairns Post Bright Night Run is certainly a fun filled family evening with plenty to see and do for th..

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• The McCullum-Cairns episode: a timeline

  

  2010 January: Cairns declares intent to sue Lalit Modi over accusatory tweet The then IPL commissioner Lalit Modi tweets that the IPL decided to withdraw Cairns' name from the auction list because of his alleged involvement in fixing. In his response, a statement issued by his solicitor Andrew Fitch-Holland, Cairns says: "The allegation made by Lalit Modi that I have been involved in match-fixing is scandalous and wholly untrue. For him to circulate such a falsehood around the world is outrag..

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