Club boss calls for drinks deal unity and other top stories.

• Club boss calls for drinks deal unity

  A GOLD Coast bar boss staring down accusations of “irresponsible” drinks deals is calling on all operators to agree to minimum pricing standards.Surfers Paradise nightclub kingpin Jamie Pickering said he would love to revive a former gentlemen’s agreement among venue owners to have no big discounts and set price thresholds.Mr Pickering said an understanding was reached several years ago setting a standard for no discounts after midnight and nothing cheaper than $6 or $7.media_cameraJamie Pickeri..

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• Gold Coast power outage caused by substation fault

  

  Power has been restored to the 4122 Energex Gold Coast customers who were without power on Thursday morning.An Energex spokesman said a damaged connection between the overhead network and underground network at Molendinar had set off the alarm at the substation just before 9am. Residents on parts of the Gold Coast woke to no power on Thursday. Photo: Jessica Shapiro All power was restored to homes by 10.30am.EARLIERA fault at a Gold Coast substation has left more than 4000 Energex custo..

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• Coast MPs snub questions

  

  THE Gold Coast’s three Liberal MPs are refusing to answer questions on critical funding, with observers saying it is a sign they are so confident of winning they believe they do not need to engage in debate. In an unprecedented move, Fadden MP Stuart Robert, Moncrieff MP Steve Ciobo and McPherson MP Karen Andrews have put the shutters up on an election debate, instead issuing a joint statement.media_cameraLiberal MP Stuart Robert has put the shutters up on an election debate. Pic by Richard Gosl..

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• Gold Coast, you're doing winter wrong

  

  WE’RE about to be slammed with a vicious cold snap, Gold Coast, with temperatures plummeting to a single digit of 9 degrees Celsius (still counts). Tasmania will also have a single digit recording — a single digit high of 9 degrees Celsius. The rest of the country is laughing at us, Gold Coast.We know how to survive winter, we’ve done it before: turn the air con off and expect football on every channel — done.What we need is a cautionary list of the wintry sins we commit that make us seem like c..

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• Coast airport ILS still up in air

  

  THE Gold Coast Airport is expected to be given a signal today about whether construction of its controversial instrument landing system can take off while an appeal is decided.A hearing at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Brisbane is expected to determine if the project will get the green light to go ahead, prior to a decision being made in December.The Gold Coast Lifestyle Association, the Tugun Cobaki and a Gold Coast man John Hicks have lodged the appeal against the federal government’s..

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• Meet the cat the size of a cocker spaniel

  

  CAESAR is as big as a dog, eats like a horse and rules his subjects like a lion – but underneath is just one big cuddly cat.Weighing in at 8kgs and around a metre long, it would be reasonable to expect that Caesar, a maine coon, would have an attitude to match his size but, according to his owner Tracey Lamb, the award-winner feline is just the opposite.media_cameraTracey Lamb and her award winning Maine Coon cat Picture Glenn Hampson“You would expect a big cat like this to have a roar but their..

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Fremantle Dockers in AFL injury crisis as 17 players sidelined for Collingwood clash .	Albany Hospital confidential patient list found in courtyard, 'human error' blamed .
Coast survives brush with super storm .	Hinterland smashed with close to 100mm .