On plans to upgrade the Redlynch skatepark.

Redlynch is the best skatepark in the area. How about upgrading Gordonvale or some of the others? Even the one on the Esplanade could be added to so that it’s more user friendly for younger riders.

Annie Weber

Rather get a water park like Muddy’s on the Esplanade.

Carlie Reeves

On a mystery croc being found on the Cairns Esplanade shoreline.

Mystery disappearances of owner’s cars around Cairns should be the top focus of an investigation.

Phil West

Directly across the inlet people have been setting up illegal nets and leaving them for days at a time unchecked. Wouldn’t be surprised if it got caught up in one as well as turtles, fish, birds, anything else that’s unlucky enough. Fisheries do nothing about it.

Kathleen Lund

It was opposite the hospital helipad on the Esplanade. It probably saw the waiting room full of people with ear aches, paper cuts, runny noses and drunks and decided to give up and die on the beach instead.

Danny Hiner

I’m more concerned about it being up on the Esplanade beach than it being dead. So many kids walk along there each day. Crocs are the most patient killers. Adults rarely know they are there, let alone kids.

Adam Hurst

Probably drank some of the lagoon water when they drained it.

Terence Wingard

Very sad. Every animal on earth has a right to life.

Barbara Thomas

Maybe ate too many giant cane toads.

Alma Ronlund

Tributes for Tablelands nurse Jane Wheeler, killed in a motorcycle crash last week.

Condolences and sincere sympathy to her family and friends.

Bev Clark

Another good one taken too soon.

Vanda Catanzariti

RIP Jane. Such sad news.

Susan Veivers

211

Death of Lucius Septimius Severus, Roman emperor who made the empire’s government a military monarchy.

1697

Willem de Vlamingh, in command of the Dutch ships Geelvinck, Nijptangh and Wezeltje, visits Dirk Hartog’s landing site in Western Australia. He replaces the pewter plate nailed by Hartog to a tree with a new plate.

1783

Britain’s George III proclaims that fighting will cease in the American War of Independence.

1787

Shays’ Rebellion, an uprising in western Massachusetts against high taxes and stringent economic conditions, is defeated by the Springfield militia.

1789

George Washington is elected as the first US president by a unanimous vote in the first electoral college.

1902

American aviator Charles Lindbergh, who was one of the best-known figures in aeronautical history, is born in Detroit, Michigan.

1922

Coogee lifesavers get body surfer Milton Coughlan, 18 or 19, to the beach after a shark attack, but he dies of his injuries.

1945

The Yalta Conference begins in Ukraine, with the “big three’’ — Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin — meeting to arrange the fate of the world.

1974

Patricia Hearst, 20, granddaughter of the late William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

1983

US singer Karen Carpenter, 32, pictured, who suffered anorexia nervosa, dies near Hollywood of a heart attack. She sang with brother Richard as The Carpenters.

1987

US yacht Stars and Stripes, skippered by Dennis Conner, beats Kookaburra III off WA to reclaim the America’s Cup.

2004

Mark Zuckerberg and two Harvard University roommates launch thefacebook.com, renamed The Facebook in 2005.