Revival of Castle Hill Showground
MULTI-MILLION dollar plans for the Castle Hill Showground precinct have been revived — after it was revealed several developers put proposals on ice earlier this year.
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Why this man was shot in face ten times
HE was a troubled businessman, she was a former prostitute, her lover was a callous killer. Shyam “Sam’’ Dhody met a brutal end, found dead in his bed after a horrific execution-style murder that had Gold Coast detectives baffled.
Swans champ’s life after football
LEWIS Roberts-Thomson was exactly the sort of treasure the AFL and the Sydney Swans fossicked for as they fought to crack the fickle Sydney football market.
Coast’s most wanted man still on the run after 27 years
AN ORDERED hit, a biscuit company extorted for millions of dollars, two dead and a man on the run for nearly three decades. This is the bizarre and true story of the execution of SP bookmaker Peter George Wade and his partner Maureen Ambrose by Ronald Henry Thomas and John Victor Bobak.
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FOR many Queenslanders, the weeks of the 2011 floods were some of the most difficult of their lives. But for some of them, the rising waters weren’t the most traumatic part – that would come weeks later.
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SOME of the people who came to be known as the mud army look back on the floods of 2011 – and reveal the weirdest thing they found during the clean-up of Brisbane.
26 amazing facts about Australia
CONVICTS as cops? Venomous platypus? Think you know everything about this great nation of ours? Try these 26 bizarre facts.
The vanishing: What’s happened to them all?
LIKE Daniel Morcombe, 12-year-old Terry Floyd was waiting on the side of the road for a ride. That was in 1975. He hasn’t been seen since. He’s one of thousands of Aussies listed as missing. These are their stories.
Islamic State’s final battle
DABIQ: It’s Islamic State’s Armageddon – the place where the final battle between jihadists and infidels begins. With a string of recent defeats, that fight may soon be upon them.
Movies you’ll be watching this summer
PLAN ahead for a big summer of keeping your cool in the cinema with LEIGH PAATSCH’s guide to the biggest movies coming out.
Inside the hunt for a heretic queen
STRANGE echoes, indentations and touched-up artwork inside Tutankhamun’s famous tomb have revealed secret chambers that may belong to his notorious mother — Queen Nefertiti.
Your ultimate Star Wars guide
CONFUSING your Tatooine and your Wookiee? Can’t tell an Imperial fighter from an X-wing? Then this out-of-this-world guide to all things Star Wars is a must-read.
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