Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Cairns primary school no longer in lockdown after police incident and other top stories.

  • Cairns primary school no longer in lockdown after police incident

    Cairns primary school no longer in lockdown after police incident
    UPDATE: Police have declared an Earlville school safe after it was earlier placed in lockdown.Cairns district duty officer Sen-Sgt John Rhodes said they had investigated an alleged threat made to the school by a teenage boy but it was found to have “no basis”.He said the school was no longer in lockdown and no one has been taken into custody or charged.----------EARLIER: Police this morning received advice from a member of the public that a teenage boy had made some threats to attack Balaclava P..
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  • Emotional Cairns Cup win for Cairns trainer Trevor Rowe

    Emotional Cairns Cup win for Cairns trainer Trevor Rowe
    VICTORIES do not come much more emotional than Trevor Rowe’s first Cairns Cup on Sunday afternoon at Cannon Park. The long-time Far North trainer has longed for this $75,000 feature event for many a year at his home track but if he won it before Sunday, it would not have been as special as this.The horse, Chateau Dettori, or Frankie, as he goes by in the Rowe stable, is owned by Trevor’s son Peter and become the first Cairns Cup winner for the stable.Jockey Sonja Wiseman rode the horse to perfec..
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  • Cairns weekend media wrap, Monday August 15

    Cairns weekend media wrap, Monday August 15
    Update: Robbery with violence, Woree: Detectives have charged a further two men regarding a robbery incident alleged to have occurred at a Loretta Avenue residence on Friday night. It will be alleged that the men, who were not known to the victims, assaulted another man at the residence at around 6pm before making demands for cash and stealing money from another man who was present. It will be further alleged that they damaged a plant pot and a door at the residence, and also damaged a car wind..
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  • Cairns Marlins are on the way to take on Townsville in QBL finals

    Cairns Marlins are on the way to take on Townsville in QBL finals
    TOWNSVILLE coach Rodney Anderson has got his wish and it might come back to bite him. The Heat coach last month said he wanted the Cairns Marlins to make the Queensland Basketball League finals after they blew out his sluggish side at the Fish Tank by 21 points.Now the full of confidence Marlins are headed for Townsville for a semi-final against the Heat on Friday night, after they impressively dismantled the Mackay Meteors in their qualifying final.The Meteors were never in the contest as an on..
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  • Port Douglas have no worries against Cairns Saints as they prepare ...

    Port Douglas have no worries against Cairns Saints as they prepare ...
    DEFENCE wins premierships. That’s the boring adage footy coaches trot out isn’t it?Offence gets the turnstiles ticking over but defence gets you the win on the final day of the season.Port Douglas, for all their hardworking midfielders and athletics forwards, again proved they had such a defensive unit on Saturday.Saints had the breeze in the opening term and should have gone into the first break with a six-goal advantage, such was their ascendancy.Instead, it was just 12 points Saints’ way, whi..
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  • Travis Trice will lead the Cairns Taipans offence this NBL season

    Travis Trice will lead the Cairns Taipans offence this NBL season
    TRAVIS Trice has been handed the keys to the Cairns Taipans offence and is excited to get behind the wheel. In his first interview since landing in Australia on Saturday, the point-guard said Taipans coach Aaron Fearne’s two-year pursuit of his signature convinced him to take his first professional move outside the US.The 183cm guard was an interested onlooker at the Cairns Marlins game on Saturday and received a first look at some of his teammates, Alex Loughton, Anthony Fisher and Damon Heuir,..
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  • Lack of website awareness upsets Cairns counsellor

    Lack of website awareness upsets Cairns counsellor
    A LACK of official warnings after multiple crocodile sightings around Cairns at the weekend has been labelled proof the State Government is not taking the predators seriously enough. Cairns Division 9 Councillor Brett Olds said it was difficult to believe there was no information readily available from the Environment Department after a roughly four metre animal was spotted off Palm Cove Beach on Saturday.Further south, a slightly smaller beast was pulled from a waterway near Mulgrave Mill, but ..
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  • Tropical design and skill under pressure praised at FNQ awards

    Tropical design and skill under pressure praised at FNQ awards
    STAYING true to the tune of the tropics helped Ash Moseley Homes take the prize for Far North Queensland House of the Year at an industry awards event at the weekend.It won the Master Builders Far North Queensland award for its Marina Quay Project at Trinity Park, and Master Builders’ regional manager Ron Bannah said the property “oozed perfection”.“The living areas in particular, it’s all open, full sliding glass panels, open to the breeze,” he said after Saturday night’s ceremony at the Cairns..
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  • Billy Slater and Miss World Australia Madeline Cowe at Cairns Cup

    Billy Slater and Miss World Australia Madeline Cowe at Cairns Cup
    LONG skirts, dark hues and metallic accessories proved a winning combination at Brothers Cairns Cup Ladies Day on Saturday.Ten finalists showed off the best in autumn/winter fashion in the tropics and faced a judging panel of Tully’s Miss World Australia Madeline Cowe, Myer merchandiser Tony Hudson and 2014 South Australia Myer Fashions on the Field winner Michelle Boyes.Coast Roast owner Chantelle Kenyon took the top prize in the Myer Lady of the Day competition in a knee length, black Yeojin B..
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  • The Esplanade, Cairns North

    The Esplanade, Cairns North
    Police believe the person pictured in this image may be able to assist officers with the investigation into a recent Steal from vehicle which occurred on Thursday August 11 2016 at approximately 12:00AM ..
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Organ donation Elyse Miller-Kennedy's final act of generosity .Award winning Cairns police officer faces court on assault charge .
Muslim flight attendant sues ExpressJet for insisting she serve alcohol .One man's plan to grow his own dinosaur .

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