Townsville pair accused of torture and other top stories.

• Townsville pair accused of torture

  

  Townsville pair accused of torture AAP on August 15, 2016, 6:39 am Two Townsville men are facing torture charges after leaving their alleged victim with head and facial injuries and smashing up his house with a baseball bat.It's alleged the pair repeatedly punched a 33-year-old man in the head at his Aitkenvale home last week, before attacking the house with the bat, stealing property and fleeing.The man suffered non-life threatening injuries. His alleged attackers, aged 20 a..

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• Cairns Marlins are on the way to take on Townsville in QBL finals

  

  TOWNSVILLE coach Rodney Anderson has got his wish and it might come back to bite him. The Heat coach last month said he wanted the Cairns Marlins to make the Queensland Basketball League finals after they blew out his sluggish side at the Fish Tank by 21 points.Now the full of confidence Marlins are headed for Townsville for a semi-final against the Heat on Friday night, after they impressively dismantled the Mackay Meteors in their qualifying final.The Meteors were never in the contest as an on..

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• Students double as campus work starts

  

  RECORD growth at CQUniversity has seen its Townsville cohort more than double since 2010, with hopes it will reach 3000 in coming years. The university has grown from 308 to 750 students in six years.Construction of its new inner-city campus, which is being undertaken by Peter Honeycombe, began on Thursday after it was fast-tracked earlier this year.CQU’s associate vice-chancellor for Townsville and northwest region Kari Arbouin said course flexibility and a range of options had resonated with l..

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• Australia A blitz India A in Townsville

  

  Australia A have cruised to an eight-wicket victory in their opening match against India A in the Quadrangular A Series in Townsville, thanks to a Chris Tremain masterclass with the ball. The Victorian quick was the catalyst as India capitulated for 55, taking a match-winning 5-25 including a spell of 5-16 in three overs. Tricky Tremain snares five South Australia’s fast bowler Dan Worrall was also sublime, taking 4-26 at the other end, with Michael Neser (1-4) the other wicket taker - and ..

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• Jail for vicious bashing in unit

  

  FOUR men who forced their way into a Townsville unit and bashed the occupant, leaving him with multiple facial ­fractures, have been jailed.Jarrael Elwin Bratt, Aaden Leigh Newbery, Jordan Ned Thomas Savage and Joseph Allan Pryor were sentenced in Townsville District Court for robbing and bashing Jhye ­Powhiri Tanerau-Love at his Bayswater Rd unit on October 16, 2014.Bratt, as lead offender, was ­sentenced to five years’ prison, Newbery and Savage were sentenced to four years each, while Pryor, ..

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• Positive signs but schools trail peers

  

  TOWNSVILLE students are lagging behind the rest of the state in NAPLAN results despite improvements across key learning areas.Townsville Bulletin analysis of 2016 results for schools in the region reveal that on average fewer students are at or above the national minimum standard compared to the rest of Queensland.About 85 per cent of Year 5 students in Townsville met the minimum standard for reading compared to 93.8 per cent statewide.Read the full text of this story in today’s Townsville Bulle..

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• Creek dip ends in agony

  

  IT CAN cause pain so severe that sufferers often contemplate cutting off their own foot with a rusty hacksaw.Sometimes known as the “freshwater stonefish”, a 32-year-old woman had an unfortunate encounter with a bullrout in the calm waters at Crystal Creek at Mutarnee about 12.15am yesterday.A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said the woman, believed to be from Townsville, was taken to the Ingham Hospital.The woman had been camping in the area and had entered a section of Crystal Creek whe..

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• Car parking hits crisis at hospital

  

  STAFF and visitors at Townsville Hospital are being slapped with parking fines almost three times the cost of city infringements, with a previously committed multistorey carpark nowhere in sight. A $437 million expansion at the hospital was announced by then premier Anna Bligh in 2010 including two multistorey carparks to be delivered by 2017 and 2021.The 2010 Townsville Hospital Master Plan outlined a number of other expansions and redevelopments including upgraded facilities, operating theatre..

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• Man charged after spirits taken at pub

  

  A MAN who allegedly stashed a bottle of spirits down his pants and threatened staff with a steak knife at a Townsville pub has been charged with armed robbery.About 1am on Saturday a manager at The Vale Hotel found a man behind the bar in the restaurant trying to get into a cash register.The thief was confronted by security and other staff, before he jumped the counter with two bottles of spirits and lunged for a steak knife.It is understood the 18-year-old man stashed a bottle of Wild Turkey do..

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• Drive to attract tourists on road

  

  TOWNSVILLE Enterprise is improving signage at its visitor information centre on the city’s southern approach and looking at a centre to the north to capitalise on the lucrative drive-tourism market.The moves come after continued criticism from some grey nomads about the city’s marketing and the presence of council-supported free camping areas which compete with caravan and camping parks.Victorians Rosalynn and John Wright said people towing caravans from the south were opting not to turn right a..

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