Long weekends costing city's biz and other top stories.

• Long weekends costing city's biz

  

  Tourists Ikumi Shimane and Misaki Miyazaki enjoy Surfers Paradise Beach: City business leaders are calling for the glut of public holidays in the first part of the year to be spread out. Pics Adam HeadGOLD Coast hospitality operators are calling for the recent costly glut of public holidays to be spread out, with one calling it “a disaster”. The Labor Government shifted Labour Day back to the first Monday in May this year after the previous LNP government moved it to October.Restaurant and cafe ..

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• Cops hunting Hope Is servo bandits

  

  CCTV vision of an armed robbery at a Hope Island service station. Photo supplied QPSPOLICE are investigating an armed robbery and an attempted armed robbery at Hope Island this morning.At 12:20am two men tried to enter the Freedom service station on Broadwater Avenue but were unsuccessful when the attendant locked the doors when he saw the men approach with their faces covered.CCTV vision of an armed robbery at a Hope Island service station. Photo supplied QPSThe worker, in his mid 30s, said he ..

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• TV reporter fights family curse

  

  LifestyleGold Coast Channel Nine reporter Hayley Webb searches for cure to rare genetic disease that affects her familyMay 2, 2016 10:51amMeagan WeymesGold Coast Bulletin

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