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A CLEAN-UP operation is under way on the north-east Australian coast hit by a powerful tropical cyclone. Tropical Cyclone Larry smashed into Queensland at Innisfail, tearing off roofs and leaving thousands homeless.
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THOUSANDS were ordered to leave their homes yesterday as a tropical cyclone approached Australia's north east coast. Cyclone Larry a category four storm with winds of up to 174mph is heading for the popular tourist destination of Cairns, near the Great Barrier Reef.
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WINDS of nearly 300kph lashed Australia yesterday, injuring more than 30 people. Cyclone Larry ripped roofs off houses, uprooted trees and flattened crops near the northern city of Cairns.
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THOUSANDS of buildings have been destroyed in Australia by a hurricane likened to 'an atom bomb'. Cyclone Larry, with winds of 180mph, tore through the Queensland town of Innisfail yesterday. At least 30 people were injured, and dangers remain from falling buildings, unusually high tides, and crocodiles and snakes displaced by the storm.
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A massive cyclone tore off roofs and uprooted trees across Australia's north-eastern coast today, packing winds so powerful that emergency workers were forced to stay indoors, despite pleas from terrified residents. Hundreds of tourists and thousands of residents were bunkered inside hotels and homes as Tropical Cyclone Larry smashed into the coast about 60 miles south of Cairns.
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RESIDENTS along stretches of Australia's northeastern coast were ordered out of their homes yesterday as a powerful tropical cyclone bore down on them, packing damaging winds and the threat of a devastating storm surge. Tropical cyclone Larry was a category four storm, on a scale that tops at five, and a spokesmean for Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said it could pack wind gusts of up to 174mph.
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They say 'it's an ill wind that blows no good' and you certainly would have thought Cyclone Yasi was an ill wind as it cut a swathe through North Queensland last February. Gusts of 185mph uprooted trees, blew apart buildings and devastated a vast area. Storm surges off the coast brought tidal waves 30ft high. Not much good in any of that, I assumed. Then, in the resort of Mission Beach, I met Andy Wright, who told me about the Second World War American bomber he had found. At the time, he didn't know if it was a B-17 or a B-24, but the uncertainty won't last long as visitors flock to the resort.
...After all, a Category 5 cyclone - Larry - swept through the area in 2006. To be hit by a s...
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A powerful tropical cyclone packing winds of up to 180mph slammed into Australia's north-eastern coast yesterday after more than 1,000 tourists and local residents were evacuated to higher ground, the weather bureau said. Tropical cyclone Larry smashed into the coastal community of Innisfail, about 62 miles south of Cairns, a popular jumping-off point for the Great Barrier Reef, forecaster Jonty Hall said.
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years ago Howard Lockhart, who died at the weekend aged 74, was one of the pioneers of broadcasting in Scotland. When he was 11 he had to stand on a box to reach the microphone in the original radio studio in Bath Street, Glasgow. That was in 1923 before the British Broadcasting Association had been formed and the station call-sign 5SC. He was a pupil at Ayr Academy and had sent in a story he had written to Miss Kathleen Garscadden who in those days ran Children's Corner and was known as Aunti e Cyclone. Later it was to become Children's Hour and she became Auntie Kathleen. When the BBC was established round the corner in Blythswood Square Howard became a regular broadcaster and was to become Larry the Lamb in the Toytown series.
