QLD: Main stories in The Courier Mail today

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2006
QLD: Main stories in The Courier Mail today

BRISBANE, Dec 20 AAP - The main stories in The Courier Mail today:

Page 1: Millions of litres of drinking water are being sprayed on city roadworks because
Brisbane City Council is unable to effectively tap its plentiful supply of recycled water;
Brisbane's Tattersall's Club was in uproar last night after members voted to maintain
its ban on women members.

Page 2: Premier Peter Beattie says he is confident the federal government will give
its blessing to the proposed Traveston Dam near Gympie despite the environmental concerns.

Page 3: About 40 per cent of recommendations made by state coroners following inquests
into unexpected deaths in Queensland are never acted on by government agencies.

World: British police yesterday arrested a second man suspected of murdering five prostitutes
whose naked corpses were dumped around Ipswich, eastern England.

Finance: Media man Harold Mitchell yesterday put a figure on his self-made fortune
for the first time - $100 million.

Sport: Coach Duncan Fletcher and captain Andrew Flintoff are standing firm in the face
of calls for their resignations in the wake of England's Ashes debacle.

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KEYWORD: MONITOR FRONTERS QLD

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