Whale of a tale is over

Pair face trial over killing Kiwis boost visitor tally

NSW Police called off a search for a woman reportedly knocked off her paddle board by a whale in waters off Hastings Point after she was found safe and well on dry land.

Tweed Heads police launched the search after a member of the public called about 1.15pm yesterday to say they had seen the woman paddle-boarding between two whales about 500m offshore.

The area was searched for several hours before the woman was safely located on land shortly before 5pm. A PROSTITUTE andnd her driver charged with killingilling Gregory Hudson in what’s hat’s believed to be a drug-fug-fuelled sex romp have been committed to stand trial.ial.

Milan Walker, Benjamin Ghobrial and Lee Benjamin Feld were charged ged with manslaughter in relation on to the death on October 23 lastast year.

In the Southport Magistrates Court yesterday,y, Walker and Ghobrial were committed ommitted to stand trial in the Supreme Court on a date to be fixed. TRAVELLERS from New Zealand have topped the latest tally of visitors to Australia.

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show 33,900 more people visited Australia in July than in the same month last year and the biggest increase was from New Zealand.

There were 112,300 arrivals from across the ditch in the month, a rise of 11,500 from July 2014, accounting for 18.5 per cent of overseas visitors. China was second with 81,600 visitors, a rise of 8100.