Gold Coast bus hits cyclists, one injured and other top stories.

• Gold Coast bus hits cyclists, one injured

  

  A group of cyclists were hit by a bus on an early morning ride on the Gold Coast on Friday. Four cyclists have escaped serious injury after one was hit by a bus on the Gold Coast early on Friday.Gold Coast Acting Senior Operations Supervisor Stuart Cutajar said a group of cyclists were on a morning ride in Palm Beach, when one of the group was clipped by a bus at the intersection of Dogwood Drive and Nineteenth Avenue, about 6.10am.The impact destabilised the ..

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• Coast developer's return sparks anger

  

  Developer Larry Matthews is back in the development game. Picture: Glenn HampsonHE’S jumped from bankruptcy into spearheading five major developments but developer Larry Matthews has refused to fix work that has left a modern building crumbling. The Gold Coast builder filed for bankruptcy in 2012 when his biggest lender asked him to pay back a $60 million loan and the state’s building watchdog ordered him to make dozens of repairs to a leaking, crumbling building on Miami Key, Broadbeach.As of N..

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• Coast Instahusbands snap to it

  

  Instagram model and star Gabby Epstein and her boyfriend Conner Malan at Burleigh. Photo: Jerad WilliamsSOME girls like flowers and foot massages but if you’re an Instahusband, be prepared to shower your lady in selfies and sacrifice your iTunes playlist for the sake of more photo space.But it’s not all hard work like snapping off endless pictures of your babe on the beach.Many Instahusbands have honed their filtering skills so finely they’re being invited along on luxury holidays by paying tour..

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• Airlift dugong on its way to Coast

  

  The dugong on its way to Sea World on the Gold Coast following concerns about the animal's welfare.A RAAF Hercules plane is transporting an unusual passenger on a special flight from NSW to the Gold Coast – a 400kg dugong.The 2.7m long ‘sea cow’ was captured in Merimbula Lake on the south coast of NSW this morning after growing concerns about its welfare due to the cold water and lack of seagrass.It was first spotted in the area two months ago.“Its health had deteriorated and it had clearly lost..

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• Meet the 'Humans of the Gold Coast'

  

  David D'Antonio at Broadbeach photographing Leaumea Hepi-Simon. Photo: Mike BatterhamTHEY say everyone has a story and David D’Antonio is determined to share those of as many Gold Coasters as possible.Inspired by the successful The Humans of New York project which has more than 16 million followers worldwide, Mr D’Antonio has created The Humans of the Gold Coast.Most days the 20-year-old wanders around the city and asks strangers for their portrait and something about their life.The Columbian-bo..

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• Major management shake up at Titans

  

  Anthony Laffranchi playing for NSW in 2008. Photo: Craig WilsonFORMER NSW Origin and Titans forward Anthony Laffranchi has been appointed Gold Coast Football Operations manager as part of an overhaul of management positions at the Titans today.Laffranchi had been holding the position in an interim role since Scott Clark resigned last year in the wake of the James Roberts contract fiasco.Foundation employee and Head of Operations and Media Ian Buchanan is the other major change, with the club ann..

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• Bamboo hot new fitness wear trend

  

  Model Avril Mathie wearing designs by Gold Coast local Katharina Espinoza who has just launched a nine piece active wear range made out of bamboo woven fabric.BUNDALL’S Katharina Espinoza doesn’t like to sweat the small stuff which is why she spent almost four years designing her own fitness wear out of bamboo.The 25-year-old former lawyer and now administration officer and retail assistant, travelled to China to find the unique product which is known to be 60 per cent more absorbent than cotton..

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• Gold Coast Titans chair Rebecca Frizelle says NRL club needs ...

  

  TITANS chairwoman Rebecca Frizelle says Gold Coasters must forgive the club for their past errors to allow the Titans to move on and emerge again as an NRL force. With the rugby league season just a fortnight away from starting with the Auckland Nines, Frizelle wants the city to draw a line under their turbulent past few years and give the club a clean slate to become successful and stable.“We have to be forgiven for some of the mistakes that have been made in the past and be allowed to regenera..

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• Expo to drive small business growth

  

  The Gold Coast Bulletin Small Business Expo aims to drive small business growth in the city. Pictured are Amy Panuccio, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland, TAFE Gold Coast business development director Alfred Slogrove and expo organiser Chris Davies. Picture: Tim MarsdenAN expo dedicated to driving small business development and innovation on the Gold Coast will be launched next month.The Gold Coast Bulletin Small Business Expo and Innovation Clinic will showcase a range of small busine..

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• Former Gold Coast Suns player Daniel Gorringe plots AFL career ...

  

  Carlton AFL team training on the Gold Coast - Former Gold Coast Suns player Daniel Gorringe has found a new home at Carlton for this season Picture: David Clark.IT may have taken five years and a change of club but Daniel Gorringe has finally found his purpose.The former Suns player is plotting his AFL resurrection under Brendon Bolton at Carlton just months after being cast into the wilderness by the Queensland franchise.Stuck behind Tom Nicholls and Zac Smith in the ruck and trialled without a..

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