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Subscriber only Police are investigating a vehicle fire in Hay Point after the driver was nowhere to be found. Emergency services were called to McCarthy Street at 2.48am Tuesday. No one required transport to hospital but paramedics remained on standby. A Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokesman said crews arrived at the scene to find a car engulfed in flames about 3am. He said it took about 40 minutes for QFES and rural fire service firefighters to put out the blaze. A Queensland Police spokesman said no one was found at the scene and investigations were continuing. In a separate incident, two people were injured in a two-vehicle crash on Red Hill Road, Moranbah about 5.18am Tuesday.
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Mackay Regional Council is considering a request to rename the northern section of beach south of Mackay to honour those who have served the country.
The section covers the reserve frontage to Hay Point’s Half Tide Beach and extends from the entrance off Highwater Islet Drive to the entrance off McCarthy Street, south of Chain Lane.
If it is approved, the section will be renamed Half Tide Memorial Beach Park. The Mackay Regional Council is considering a request to rename part of Grendon Park to Half Tide Memorial Park. Picture: Mackay Regional Council
The area has traditionally been the location of many community-hosted wartime remembrance events including an annual Anzac Day Dawn Service and has a landmark cenotaph of cultural significance.