Trainer Bill Kenning brings two talents down from Townsville and other top stories.

• Trainer Bill Kenning brings two talents down from Townsville

  

  FORMER Emerald trainer Glenda Bell's assertion into prominence in Rockhampton racing is likely to continue today at Callaghan Park with her latest "tried-horse" purchase in Fastnet Flyer. Bell relocated from her Emerald base which she had called home for decades to re-establish herself in Rockhampton after her job in the mines was curtailed last November. A specialist trainer, especially in the ranks of acquiring and then winning races in Central Queensland with southern cast-offs, Fast..

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• Paralympic selection for Townsville player

  

  TOWNSVILLE'S Andrea McDonnell will be the first north Queensland table tennis player to compete in the Paralympics, capping an outstanding career during which she has taken out many regional, state and national titles. Now in her mid-50s and hampered by leg injuries which force her to waddle around the court, she gave away more than 40 years age difference to Mackay junior Rebekah Stanley in the final of the women's open at Townsville on the Anzac Day long weekend. Like all players, Reb..

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• Domestic violence candlelight ceremony, Aitkenvale

  

  Last night officers attended the Women’s Centre in Aitkenvale and participated in the candlelight ceremony to remember those who have died, and the loved ones left behind, as a result of domestic violence. The candlelight ceremony is held annually in the month of May as a time for respect, remembrance and recognition of those effected by domestic violence. Domestic Violence is an issue affecting the entire community, the effects of which are far reaching. The event was attended by Constable Tr..

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• Northern Stingers games update

  

  The Northern Stingers took on host team, the FNQ Marlins, yesterday in the first game of the round robin QPS Rugby League Tournament held in Cairns. The game itself was hard fought, with the home team being lauded as one of the favourites to win the Championship. The FNQ Marlins scored within the dying minutes of the game to be victors on the day 12-6. Yesterday the Northern Stingers took on their western counterparts, the Mt Isa Mongrels, for a chance to play in the Championship Plate Final..

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• Jodie Foster wins 'overdue' Hollywood star

  

  Kristen Stewart hailed her movie mother Jodie Foster as a "baller on every level" as she was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The former child star-turned-Oscar winner was saluted with her own pavement plaque in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on Wednesday, and her Panic Room co-star Stewart was on hand to fete the Hollywood veteran. Recalling their work on the 2002 thriller, when Stewart was just 10 years old, the Twilight star admitted Foster had bec..

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• 'Tennis ball' diamond could fetch $US70m

  

  It's a rock for the ages. A three-billion-year-old diamond the size of a tennis ball – the largest discovered in over a century – could sell for more than $US70 million ($A93.46 million), auctioneer Sotheby’s says. The auction house plans to offer the Lesedi la Rona diamond in London on June 29. The diamond was unearthed in November in Botswana at a mine owned by Canada’s Lucara Diamond Corporation. It measures 1109 carats, the second-largest gem-quality rough diamond ever dis..

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