Access for all is on the agenda
Newsport Print Edition
Better access for mobility impaired residents and visitors to Douglas Shire is firmly on the agenda following a call by a local couple learning how to navigate our towns more safely in a wheelchair leads the issues covered in the latest edition of Newsport Daily Print.
Following strong support for a review of disability access in the region, Douglas Shire Council has revealed there were already moves to boost facilities to accommodate the mobility impaired.
The biggest show in town, the Mossman Show, is just around the corner and we bring you a wrap of what you can expect.
There are some serious warnings about safety around power lines and some serious hard news to catch up on with a court case hitting the region’s Barra Farm, a stabbing in Cooktown and a Wonga man on a wild vandalism rampage in Cairns.
There is trouble rolling on in the Daintree with the decades long saga of Noah Bridge still being played out and Port Douglas is central to a super fund investigation.
It is not all serious news, though, as we highlight the lifelong dream behind local business Tropical Trike Tours, mark the inaugural Douglas Shire Book Festival and celebrate 90 years of Club Mossman.
In sport, another mixed bag with the Reef Raiders turning things around after an eight game losing streak but the Crocs women falling short to the Cairns Cutters.
Flying high though is young Douglas pole vault champion Caitlyn Butland, a newly crowned national champion.
Your FREE print edition is also full of comments and social pictures and available at plenty of outlets across Douglas Shire.
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