Local, national and world news for Rockhampton, QLD | Saturday 6 September, 2008
Open waits while heavens open up
TENNIS: TITLE contenders could be in for a marathon final day today at the Acton Property Corporation Rockhampton Open at Victoria Park. Wet weather again forced organisers yesterday to delay the start of play for the third day of the tournament, with players taking to the courts for quarter-final...-
Out at Wilpeena, it's all go for bumper charity meeting
RACING: WHILE Rockhampton racing officials were poker-faced about yesterday's TAB race meeting abandonment, counterparts... -
TRAGARDH TOUCHES DOWN WITH HAWKS
BASKETBALL: WOLLONGONG Hawks match-winner Cameron Tragardh has played basketball all over the world but still rates the... -
Housing search string of failure
ROCKHAMPTON'S Peter Marshall is worried landlords are turning their backs on his rental applications because his family... -
Former Rocky CEO lands top admin job at Redland council
FORMER Rockhampton City Council boss Gary Stevenson has been appointed as the new Redland City Council chief executive.... -
Caught on camera before shot by cop
TWO hours before he was shot in a struggle with a police woman, Arian John Press allegedly tore through the Flowers Rock...
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
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.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.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.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.
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