Fink arrested after carpark attack and other top stories.

• Fink arrested after carpark attack

  UPDATE: ALLEGED Finks Outlaw Motorcycle Gang member Corey Kinnear appeared in court this afternoon.Kinnear’s lawyer Sam Jackson told the court Kinnear was expected to plead guilty to the charges later in the week.Police allege the 24-year-old is a member of the Finks Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, but outside court Kinnear’s girlfriend Tearna Slade, 20, said her partner was a past member of the OMCG and was “trying to do the right thing” by leaving the Finks.She said he was now a landscape gardener.Kin..

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• Coast war hero's battle for medal

  

  HOMEGROWN hero Curtis McGrath almost lost his life fighting for his country and in August he will once again go into battle for Australia. The Gold Coaster is set to make history in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games just by turning up.But the former soldier, who lost his legs in a landmine explosion in Afghanistan, is not content with that — he plans be on the podium with a medal around his neck.The Rio Games will mark the first time canoeing has been included in the paralympics.“We’re making histor..

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• Where in the world are Malcolm and Bill?

  

  AS polling day looms the only hope the Gold Coast has of seeing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull or Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is bad weather at Brisbane Airport.The closest Mr Shorten has come to the Gold Coast was two separate visits to the Northern NSW seat of Richmond in May.A campaign spokesman for the Labor leader would not answer the Bulletin’s questions about whether the leader was going to be making a stop on the Glitter Strip.“Bill Shorten will be travelling around the country, spea..

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• Human statue Archibald work of art

  

  SEATED beside his pet crocodile, it’s hard to tell the difference between Stephen “Silver Steve” Hollis and the watercolour artwork of himself.The 47-year-old, who is often seen as a silver painted statue on the streets of the Gold Coast and Brisbane, spent almost six months working with Wynnum artist Graham W. Smith to create a giant painting of himself.The artwork came about by chance when Graham was on a coffee break in the Queen Street Mall in September last year and took some photos of Step..

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• BPS Technology locks in digital deal

  

  LISTED Gold Coast global trade exchange business BPS Technology has locked in a partnership with the Gruden Group, one of Australia’s oldest digital agencies.The agreement will enable Gruden to incorporate the BPS payments and rewards platform, bucqi, into Gruden’s digital marketing platforms to a range of Australia’s leading consumer brands.Consumers will earn rewards, redeemable with a large range of BPS’s 24,000 merchant clients.The 21-year-old Gruden in May completed a backdoor listing on th..

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• Cold snap prompts crisis concern

  

  AS temperatures drop and the number of homeless rises, a Surfers Paradise church has opened its doors early to offer battlers overnight shelter.Reverend John Brook, associate priest at St John’s in Hamilton Ave and manager of the Surfers Paradise Anglican Crisis Centre, said the church had opened overnight at the weekend – three weeks earlier than planned – since temperatures had dropped to below 10 degrees C.“We are hoping to stay open every night until the middle of September but that depends ..

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• Police locate driver who fled crash

  

  GOLD Coast police have hunted down a driver, believed to be intoxicated, who fled the scene of a crash this evening. The crash occurred in the vicinity of Garfield Tce and Vista St at about 5.15pm.Queensland Ambulance Service has also been kept busy today across the state and especially on the Gold Coast with a number of crashes on the Coast including bingles in Robina, Runaway Bay, Southport, Merrimac, Gaven and Oxenford.Paramedics are also on the scene of two crashes, one on Davenport St, Sout..

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• Flashback: Tweed harbour grand plan

  Gold Coast Bulletin, Wednesday December 18, 1991A PLAN promising a bold new facelift — including a waterfront village, maritime centre and wild dolphin feeding area — was unveiled for Tweed Heads.But it was warned the proposed multi-million redevelopment of the waterfront crown land around Jack Evans Boat Harbour in the heart of the Tweed commercial centre would come at a price.One of Tweed Heads’ most popular van areas, the 214 site border caravan park was to go to make way for the redevelopmen..

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• Coast shivers through frosty morning

  

  UPDATE: THE Gold Coast is shivering through the coldest start to the day this winter with the mercury dipping to 3C this morning.At Coolangatta at 5.30am it was down to 3.3C with an apparent temperature of just 1.2C, no doubt thanks to a sneaky breeze from the west-north-west.Temperatures at the Gold Coast Seaway were a little warmer with 9.3C at 6am but the apparent temperature at 3am was just 2.4C, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.It dropped to a near-freezing 0.4C inland at Beaudesert j..

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• Savvy buyers find new use for duplexes

  

  ENTIRE unit blocks are being transformed into stylish family homes in the latest trend to hit the Gold Coast.In a recent case Theresa and Michael Gundry converted four units into one home after discovering a lack of houses on the market in Mermaid Beach.media_cameraThe property before its conversion.“We have four children at home and a lot of these beachside homes are only four bedrooms — that wasn’t going to be big enough for us,” Mrs Gundry said.“We wouldn’t have been able to build a large hou..

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