Friday, January 22, 2016

Fuel price drops at some Cairns service stations and other top stories.

  • Fuel price drops at some Cairns service stations

    Fuel price drops at some Cairns service stations
    GOOD DEAL: Mobil North Cairns was selling unleaded petrol (ULP) for 121.9¢ a litre – 7.1¢ cheaper than the city’s average of 129¢ on Friday. PICTURE: TOM LEEPUBLIC outrage has driven some Cairns service stations to drop their fuel prices by up to 7¢ a litre but most are still slugging motorists. Mobil North Cairns was selling unleaded petrol (ULP) for 121.9¢ a litre – 7.1¢ cheaper than the city’s average of 129¢ on Friday.The station’s parent company, Trinity Petroleum, declined to provide a rea..
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  • Cairns fitness fanatic Cass Olholm powers ahead with Instagram

    Cairns fitness fanatic Cass Olholm powers ahead with Instagram
    ACTIVE: Cairns nutritionist Cass Olholm has an appetite for health and fitness. She promotes a balanced, active lifestyle and now has 19,000 Instagram followers. PICTURE: JUSTIN BRIERTYNINETEEN thousand Instagrammers can’t be wrong. They watch, they follow, they repost – and they are growing daily.Cairns health and fitness champion Cass Olholm started sharing her simple lifestyle philosophy on Instagram 18 months ago.A qualified nutritionist and self-taught yoga enthusiast who loves eating well,..
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  • Cairns Airport has record December with 436140 passengers

    Cairns Airport has record December with 436140 passengers
    FLYING IN: The number of passengers travelling through Cairns Airport topped 436,140 in December, nearly 40,000 more than a year ago – a 10 per cent rise. PICTURE: MARC MCCORMACKCAIRNS Airport is on track to crack five million passengers a year after a record December.Travellers topped 436,140, nearly 40,000 more than a year ago – a 10 per cent rise.Totals for the year were 4.8 million – an increase of 215,960 people or 4.7 per cent.Airlines flew 280 more flights to top 4060 in December and 45,6..
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  • Veteran Cairns butcher reveals BBQ secrets for Australia Day

    Veteran Cairns butcher reveals BBQ secrets for Australia Day
    How to peel a prawn0:20How to peel a prawn this Australia Day. Video: Marc McCormack ONE of the worst things you can do when you cook meat on the barbecue is marinate it – especially in beer.With barbies big and small being fired up across the Far North for Australia Day this Tuesday, veteran butcher Gary Ward has revealed some of the trade secrets behind grilling a mouth-watering meal.Mr Ward, who works at Marsh Butcheries at Stratford, said the most important advice for anyone wanting to cook..
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  • Cairns proves to be a popular Australia Day beach getaway ...

    Cairns proves to be a popular Australia Day beach getaway ...
    Cairns is one of the most popular Australia Day long weekend getaway destinations. PICTURE: SUPPLIEDCAIRNS is one of the most popular Australia Day long weekend getaway destinations.Travel booking website Wotif.com reveals Cairns in the top 10, ranked ninth after Surfers Paradise, Noosa and Broadbeach.Wotif.com travel specialist Kim Stockham said the rankings were based on Wotif accommodation bookings by Aussie travellers.“We found Cairns made the top 10 coastal holiday destinations list. Austra..
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  • Long voyage ahead for weary Woolworths ...

    Long voyage ahead for weary Woolworths ...
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. Six reasons for Masters' $3 billion fail How could the masters of Masters, Woolworths and US partner Lowe's, go so spectacularly wrong? PT1M41S 620 349 The workers out at Woolworths sprawling headquarters in Bella Vista feel like they don't see a lot of chief executive Grant O'Brien these days.Woolies' second profit downgrade in as many months saw O'Brien 'resign' from the top job back in June, just weeks after he spruiked a major turnaround stra..
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  • Respiratory illness kills four at Herberton Hospital

    Respiratory illness kills four at Herberton Hospital
    VIRUS SHOCK: Four patients have died and another eight are sick after human metapneumovirus (hMPV) was detected at Herberton Hospital. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKEFOUR patients have died and another eight are sick after a virus outbreak at Herberton Hospital.Queensland Health has implemented several infection control measures, including limiting visitor access and restricting new patients, after human metapneumovirus (hMPV) was detected at the aged-cared facility.Fifteen staff members who have been fe..
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  • RAAF searches for buried airman's family

    RAAF searches for buried airman's family
    ON February 28, 1943, 23-year-old Sergeant Keith Arnold Watson was on a 17-hour mission to provide anti-submarine cover to a convoy heading for Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea. The last anyone heard of the Lismore man's where- abouts was in a final radio call to Townsville stating that the aircraft he and 10 other men were in had been forced to land. The Court of Inquiry recorded the aircraft crashed at sea while attempting to land due to exhaustion of its fuel supply. The wreckage was..
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  • Qld pedophile's 'wife' tries to get a visa

    Qld pedophile's 'wife' tries to get a visa
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  • Four dead after shooting in Canada

    Four dead after shooting in Canada
    Four dead after shooting in CanadaA gunman opened fire at a Canadian high school and a second location in an aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan, leaving four dead and at least two injured, officials say.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said from Davos, Switzerland that a suspect was in custody.Trudeau initially said five died, but police later corrected that to four."This is every parent's worst nightmare," he said."The community is reeling."Other Stories Kevin Janvier said his 23-year ..
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Council to trim Cairns CBD fig tree that is home to dozens of flying ... .Cairns council prevented from having say at crucial lockout laws ... .
Child counsellor tops wishlist of Cairns domestic violence service .More than 100 Cairns jobs at risk with Masters to sell or close .

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