New A-League soccer hits roadblock and other top stories.

• New A-League soccer hits roadblock

  

  A NEW bid to revive an ­A-League Gold Coast soccer team has kicked off but a local football club with licensing rights isn’t playing ball. New not-for-profit group Sports Gold Coast which aims to funnel big business support into local sporting endeavours, has invested in a $50,000 strategic plan mapping out a pathway to elite football on the Coast.The plan, seen by the Bulletin, has an end goal of creating a sustainable premier Gold Coast football team to compete against the country’s other glam..

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• Uber gets competition on Coast

  

  AT least 100 new drivers will converge on the Gold Coast at the end of the month as a new major player muscles in on the taxi market. Executives of Sydney-based company GoCar are on the Gold Coast this week to scout out locations and process drivers after the State Government’s decision to legalise ridesharing in Queensland from September 5.media_cameraRide-sharing apps will be legal in Queensland from next month.Chief executive David Holmes said GoCar, a spin-off from taxi-hailing smartphone ap..

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• Park sicko suspect to face court

  

  FULLY-clothed and lacking the bravado displayed in sickening public porn films that shocked the nation this week, the man accused of being the filmmaker “gcJosh” yesterday handed himself in to police at Coomera.The 34-year-old man — dark brown hair, thinning atop a sallow face — arrived at the station on a black Honda road bike just after 2pm yesterday — his alleged secret life unravelling by the minute.Wearing grey pants and a faded blue Billabong fleecy top he did not want to answer the Gold C..

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• Murder investigation after burnt body found

  

  A MURDER investigation is under way after the charred remains of a woman’s body was found after a fire near Tumbulgum this morning.Police are appealing for information after the burnt body was found on the side of a road in a paddock about 7.30am when emergency services were called to Pollards Road, Dulguigan, after reports of a fire.Police from Tweed/Byron Local Area Command established a crime scene.The body and scene have been examined by specialist forensic officers.The identity of the perso..

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• Coast store owner's alleged bikie link

  

  A CONVENIENCE store owner caught supplying cannabis from premises allegedly used as a makeshift bikie clubhouse lost both his shops after $46,000 was seized from him during the investigation. Brett Burnell, 52, was arrested following a Taskforce Maxima raid behind the San Fernando’s Takeaway and Convenience Store on October 24 in 2014.Police found 3.813kg of cannabis, a small quantity of cocaine and arrested a man jumping the back fence after being supplied 28g of cannabis.media_cameraBrett Burn..

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• No rival for iconic Gold Coast event

  

  GOLD Coast Show organisers have breathed a sigh of relief after council officers revealed they would not approve an application for a rival carnival on the same weekend as the city’s main exhibition. A feud between the Showmen’s Guild of Australasia and the Gold Coast Show Society prompted a group of stall and ride operators to team up with Westfield Helensvale to try to establish the “Helensvale Fun Fair Spectacular”, a three-day event on the same weekend.CARNIE ROW THREAT TO GOLD COAST SHOW me..

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• Flashback: US servicemen no-show

  

  Gold Coast Bulletin, Wednesday January 17, 1968CONFUSION, conflicting statements and dashed hopes — that was the story of the Gold Coast as an R and R leave centre that never was.From various sources — Australian and American — it was stated over recent months that:The American servicemen on leave from Vietnam would be on the Gold Coast, that Brisbane would be a centre and the Gold Coast a space for shore leave and finally that they would not be coming at all.Then after the arrival of the servic..

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• Warm winter brings snake-nado to Coast

  

  EXPERIENCED Gold Coast snake catchers say they have had the busiest winter in more than 20 years as a growing number of the cold-blooded creatures slither their way into suburbia.Unseasonably warm weather and land clearing have been blamed for the large number of snakes seen off the beaten track.Gold Coast snake catcher Tony Harrison, who has wrestled everything from carpet pythons to eastern brown snakes in the past 22 years, said the slithering creatures were being caught every day.media_camer..

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• Guanaba house destroyed by fire

  

  A Guanaba house has been destroyed after it burst into flames this afternoon.Emergency services were called to the Candy Creek Rd home about 3.30pm to reports of a large fire.Rural crews were first on the scene where neighbours were desperately trying to extinguish the flames with garden hoses.media_cameraRural fire crews at a Candy Creek Rd, Guanaba house that was destroyed bu fire. Photo: Jessica ElderThree urban crews joined the effort and the fire was extinguished by about 4pm, but not befor..

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• Fears daughter caught in porn ring

  

  A MOTHER has told of her anxiety and fear that an explicit picture of her daughter is one of thousands on a recently exposed school pornography ring website. The northern NSW mother, who did not want her identity revealed, said her 13-year-old daughter has suffered severe mental health issues after sending a photo to a boy in her class and had even attempted to take her own life.“She did send a picture to a boy but she was pressured into doing it,” she said.“She didn’t want to take it but she di..

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