COUNCIL LIVE: Crematorium debate starts to heat up and other top stories.

• COUNCIL LIVE: Crematorium debate starts to heat up

  THE THIRD round of the 2015/16 Regional Arts Development Fund has given financial assistance to 21 successful applicants. Councillors today unanimously endorsed officer recommendations to grant the funds to a range of applicants, including a number of individual projects, among them, projects based on telling the story of Peter Greste's jailing in Egypt and a document of ships and shipwrecks in Queensland waters. CONTROVERSIAL DEVELOPMENT HELD OVER A PROPOSAL for a 140-bed aged care f..

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• Pirates exit division one of Sunshine Coast rugby league

  

  THE Sunshine Coast Daily caught up with Rugby League Sunshine Coast CEO James Ward to check on the latest regarding the Noosa Pirates and their struggle to survive in division one. The team was forced to forfeit its match last weekend. Will Noosa be able to continue playing in the Caloundra RSL Cup this year?“(No). For the balance of the season Noosa will be fielding teams in the division two men’s competition and the division two under-18s competition. They will be withdrawn from the division ..

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• Victory a chance to make last 16 of ACL

  

  IT MIGHT have suffered a 3-1 loss away to Shanghai SIPG, but Melbourne Victory's hopes of progressing to the knockout stages of the Asian Champions League are still alive. Korean outfit Suwon downed Gamba Osaka 2-1 in the other Group G game to move level with the Victory on six competition points, ensuring the race for second spot would come down to the final Group matches on May 3. Playing host to Gamba at home, Victory will need to match or better Suwon's result against top-of-the-gro..

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