Local, national and world news for Bundaberg, QLD | Friday 5 September, 2008
LEAGUE CARNIVAL PLAN IS UNVEILED
RUGBY LEAGUE: Bundaberg Rugby League (BRL) clubs could make $12,000 in two days after the region was announced host town of the inaugural 9s senior rugby league carnival. Spearheaded by Coral Coast Indigenous Sports and Recreation (CCISR), the carnival offers the winning club $12,000 in prize...-
KIDDIE GANG'S CRIME SPREE
A GANG of primary school aged children which has terrorised East Bundaberg for months has business owners frustrated... -
Thabeban eyed for 64-unit proposal
THE developer still embroiled in a legal battle over a proposed Mulgrave Street project has launched his fourth attempt... -
Mum says 0.25% not enough
MOTHER-of-three Shellee Lydyard welcomed yesterday's good news on interest rates but said it would do little to... -
Students at core of studies
THE silent hall suddenly sounded like thunder as more than 120 year 12 students like Liana Modolo rose to leave at the end... -
34 COMPO DEALS SIT IN SLOW LANE
MAIN Roads has been tearing up people's land to build the Bundaberg Ring Road before it has even paid for it - and...
Australian news
Govt rejects coal port, rail line in Qld
A coal company is taking legal action over Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's rejection of a $5.3 billion coal project in central Queensland wetlands.More energy billing errors emerge in Qld
Up to 60,000 south-east Queenslanders could be affected by power billing errors, says the state's Mines and Energy Minister Geoff Wilson.Bodies-in-barrels killer gets 24 years
The woman who masterminded the kidnapping of a couple whose bodies were found burning in barrels on the NSW south coast has been jailed for at least 24 years.AFL coach named Father of the Year
Sydney Swans coach Paul Roos has been named 2008 Father of the Year by the Australian Father's Day Council.
World news
Branson to attempt record with family
British billionaire Sir Richard Branson is back in the business of chasing speed records on the high seas - this time with his family.British watchdog probes Qantas ads
Qantas is being investigated by Britain's advertising watchdog for claiming in a series of advertisements that it is the "world's most experienced" airline.Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has vowed to "free Britain from the dictatorship of oil" as he stepped up his political fightback.China coal mine blast kills at least 27
Twenty-seven people have been killed and six injured in a coal mine explosion in northeast China, state media reports.
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