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• Queensland weather: Storms forecast for southeast

  

  Lightning strikes over Brisbane0:31More than 4000 people are without power in Brisbane after a storm moved in from the west. Video by Jack Tran.More than 15,000 homes remained without power late Sunday night after severe thunderstorms hammered southeast Queensland.Power lines and trees have reportedly fallen on top of cars and across roads, and residents are being urged to drive safely on wet roads following a number of minor car accidents this afternoon.In Brisbane city, more than 2000 Energex ..

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• Will 'soft-touch' judge be overruled?

  

  Gold Coast police have since suggested they will refuse to bring dangerous offenders to court unless they are in handcuffs. Ms D'Ath yesterday expressed ...

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• Bates cleared by health watchdog

  

  QLD Premier on MP's resignation2:34Premier Campbell Newman says he is saddened to see Ros Bates, Arts Minister, leave her portfolio.GOLD Coast MP Ros Bates has been cleared by Australia’s health watchdog of any wrongdoing after she twice told Parliament she had undertaken “shifts” at local hospitals.The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has also adjusted restrictions on Ms Bates’ capacity to work as a nurse to allow her to have indirect contact with patients.The Mudgeeraba MP told..

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• The selfie that changed the travel industry

  IT'S a beautiful summer's day on the Gold Coast, the beach is abuzz with people and the smell of coconut oil and sunscreen hangs in the air. Tourists jostle for a ...

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• Emergency services on high alert for busy summer of bites and stings

  

  Emergency services are on high alert for bites and stings from deadly and unusual animals this summer season.EMERGENCY services are on high alert for bites and stings from deadly and unusual animals after a 13-year-old boy was rushed to hospital with five spines in his foot from a scorpion fish.Ahead of the official start of summer tomorrow, paramedics have urged residents not to be complacent.Murwillumbah teenager Joel Mudge was treated in Tweed Heads Hospital last Sunday after he stood on a bu..

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• Take Heart Australia event to raise awareness of cardiac arrest

  

  Take Heart Australia day 2015 at Broadbeach.Photo: Queensland Ambulance ServiceEvery year, 30,000 Australians suffer from a cardiac arrest. On average, only about 9 per cent survive.Events across Australia were set up on Monday November 30 to target the first five minutes of a cardiac arrest, considered the most crucial in terms of survival rates, through CPR training.Paramedics held 15 minute information sessions on CPR, including practice sessions across Brisbane City and the Gold Coast.Queens..

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• Police arrest men in relation to car theft

  

  TWO Queensland men who allegedly carjacked a vehicle and drove it more than 300km have been arrested in Coffs Harbour after allegedly stealing fuel from a Pacific Hwy petrol station.Officers have been searching for the rented Hyundai i30 sedan since last Tuesday when the two Mudgeeraba men, 21 and 23, allegedly stole the car from a Surfers Paradise Esp home on the Gold Coast.Shortly after 6pm yesterday, police received reports two men stopped at a service station on the Pacific Hwy in Clarenza w..

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• Chinese syndicate pays $10.5m for Queensland petrol station complex

  A PETROL station complex in the Gold Coast's northern corridor has sold for $10.5 million as a rising tide of interstate investors set their radars to Queensland's ...

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• Ferocious storm 'came out of nowhere'

  

  Lightning strikes over Brisbane0:31More than 4000 people are without power in Brisbane after a storm moved in from the west. Video by Jack Tran.A MAN has been struck by lightning and another zapped by fallen power lines during ferocious storms in Queensland’s southeast.A 25-year-old man suffered only minor injuries after being hit by lightning at Ipswich, west of Brisbane, on Sunday evening. He was taken to the Ipswich Hospital hospital in a stable condition.Another man, 24, was taken to the sam..

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• Is it really free Wi-Fi?

  

  Westfield can gather a lot of information about its customers through their WI-Fi use.Photo: iStockConsumers are increasingly regarding free Wi-Fi internet access as a right rather than a privilege but it could also be lightening their wallets.Shopping centre and cinema giant Scentre Group has analysed the air above the heads of shoppers in its Westfield malls in Australia and has found that those who tune in to its Wi-Fi are bigger spenders than those who don't.Hearing the thoughts of Scentre G..

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