Xbox holdup claim

POLICE are hunting a man who allegedly held up a computer gaming store with a knife in Cairns Central yesterday. It is alleged the man entered the EB Games store in the McLeod St shopping centre about 10.15am and initially asked to be shown an Xbox with the intent to purchase it before he produced a knife and stole it, along with two games. The man is described as being tanned complexion and aged in his late teens or early 20s.

New hotel boss

SHANGRI-La Hotel veteran Ross Miles-Cadman is the new general manager at the brand’s The Marina property in Cairns. He has hotel experience in Australia, including Brisbane and Sydney, the US, China and Hong Kong. He joined the Shangri-La group in 2010 and for the last four years was general manager at the Shangri-La Hotel Tainan, Taiwan. He had previous stints in Chinese properties in Wenzhou, Yangzhou and Beihai. Mr Miles-Cadman first visited Cairns in 1993.

Snake bite report

PARAMEDICS took a person to Cairns Hospital in a stable condition following a suspected snake bite yesterday at 1.57pm. Queensland Ambulance Service reported the suspected bite at a Parramatta Park address.

War medals replaced

CATHOLIC priest Father John O’Connor, who lost his World War II medals when his home at Tully Heads was flooded during Cyclone Yasi, has had them replaced. His friend, Toowoomba priest Fr Kerry Costigan, organised for replica replacement medals and they were presented to him at the Cairns RSL yesterday. Fr O’Connor served in the Royal Australian Air Force as a warrant officer from April 1943 to December 1945.