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Two fight for life after house inferno

Michael Breeze, 55, and Liane, 50, suffered severe burns when their Worongary home went up in flames at 3.40am on Sunday. The couple are now fighting for their lives at Royal Brisbane Hospital after the blaze destroyed their Mataranka Dve home, killing one of their dogs and two cats.

Roadworks blowing baker’s dough

A baker has slashed staff hours and lost 30 per cent of his trade due to roadworks outside his Bundall Rd shop. Horner’s of Sorrento owner Rob Horner said he was told by project workers that the construction outside his bakery near the Ashmore Rd intersection would last 2½ weeks. But five weeks later the work is still in progress and Transport and Main Roads cannot say when it will be completed.

Shark attack surfer the ‘luckiest man alive’

A surfer has been described as “the luckiest man alive” after a shark snapped his board in half before biting his hip on the NSW north coast on Sunday morning. Byron Bay local Abe McGrath, 35, was lying on his board off Main Beach, just after 6am when a shark “latched” its jaws onto his board. Fellow surfer Bryce Cameron, 34, said the shark, believed to be a 3.5m juvenile white pointer came up from underneath Mr McGrath, snapping his board in half.

Two women escape from custody

Two women are believed to have escaped from Numinbah Correctional Centre. Police say a headcount was conducted at the facility on Sunday at about 11pm but the two were unaccounted for. One woman is described as 21, caucasian, 165cm tall with a slim build, long dark-brown hair and green eyes while the other is described as 24, caucasian 170cm tall with a slim build, long blonde hair and hazel eyes.