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Mum’s face hacked in machete attack

Coombabah mum Ingrid Brown will be scarred for life after her face was hacked from mouth to ear in a horrific attack in her own backyard. Ms Brown, 35, and her partner Michael Liddell, 34, were allegedly assaulted by two machete-wielding men in a robbery gone wrong on Saturday.

‘Mattress man’ star of marathon stragglers

Thousands of people cheered Takuya Naguchi to victory at the Gold Coast Marathon on the weekend and there was still fanfare more than four hours later as Damien Rider, 41, finished with a mattress over one shoulder. Rider crossed the finish line just minutes before officials closed the track at 2pm.

Bar ID scans’ good, bad and ugly

Launched on Saturday, new compulsory ID scanning in bars came under fire as venues reported Canadian, American and Kiwi IDs didn’t scan and had to be manually entered, resulting in frustrated patrons quitting queues.

Spida v Hannant: Who won marathon?

The battle of the Gold Coast radio jocks has delivered a stunning upset for the bookies.Following much banter on the airwaves, Sea FM’s Ben Hannant (ex- rugby league) faced off against Spida Everitt (ex-AFL) in the Gold Coast Airport Marathon on the weekend. Everitt was the hot favourite to beat his cross-town radio rival, but it didn’t pan out that way.

Baden-Clay’s slip at crash site

Gerard Baden-Clay crawled from a car wreck, using his hands to drag himself along the ground and repeatedly asking for his lawyer as onlookers came to help, according to the newly updated book The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay by David Murray.