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Show ‘will die’ without new home

Gold Coast Show organisers are seeking a new home for 2018 to save the event after a downturn in numbers across the three-day weekend. Stall holders blame competition from rival events like Mudgeeraba Mania and Father’s Day for a drop in numbers but Gold Coast Show CEO Lavinia Rampino says the downturn has been gradual since the event shifted to the Turf Club in 2014.

Where’s the light rail going next?

The Gold Coast City Council has held talks with traffic engineers to create light rail spur lines to the city’s two biggest stadiums. City leaders want trams to travel west to both Robina and Nerang, via Carrara, to service a projected population boom, national sports teams and the Gold Coast’s newest theme parks. They want it completed by 2030.

Woman, 21, jailed for two-year ‘catfishing’

A young woman in England who posed as police officers to control her ex-boyfriend and stop him from seeing other women has been jailed. Lauren Adderley, 21, of Shropshire used “catfish-style behaviour” to convince former partner Mitchell Lloyd, 22, he was part of a police investigation. She even made the young man believe he was subject to police curfews, creating email accounts to pose as police officers and to threaten him with fines if he did not obey the orders.

’My God, there are people burnt’

An onlooker has been left fighting for his life after a flash fire from a car on the track at a Red CentreNATS event spread through a fence and hit the audience. Another 12 people have been transported to Alice Springs Hospital in a serious but stable condition. One man was in a critical condition. The incident occurred at about 3.45pm on Sunday.