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The Planning Authority has approved the demolition of a hotel in Xlendi - in what campaigners warn is the the first stage of a massive development project that will change the character of the popular Gozo bay.  At a meeting on Tuesday, an application to demolish the Hotel Xlendi Resort & Spa was approved by a three-person planning commission chaired by Claude Mallia. It is the first phase in a project by a group of Gozitan businessmen, who propose building a four-star hotel on the site that will be 13 storeys high. Excel Investments Ltd group, whose directors are Mark Agius, Joseph Portelli...

A Townsville telecommunications engineer praised for his cyclone disaster recovery work now faces a disaster of his own. Mark Agius can't move into his new $400,000 house on a hill in the Townsville suburb of Mount Louisa because it has so many defects - and he fears it will blow away in a cyclone. Agius, 40, says it may even be cheaper to knock down and start again. He is furious with the state government building watchdog, the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, for dithering and "agreeing to retrospectively downgrade wind speed cyclone safety standards without my knowledge...

A Townsville telecommunications engineer praised for his cyclone disaster recovery work now faces a disaster of his own. Mark Agius can't move into his new $400,000 house on a hill in the Townsville suburb of Mount Louisa because it has so many defects - and he fears it will blow away in a cyclone. Agius, 40, says it may even be cheaper to knock down and start again. He is furious with the state government building watchdog, the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, for dithering and "agreeing to retrospectively downgrade wind speed cyclone safety standards without my knowledge...

A Townsville telecommunications engineer praised for his cyclone disaster recovery work now faces a disaster of his own. Mark Agius can't move into his new $400,000 house on a hill in the Townsville suburb of Mount Louisa because it has so many defects - and he fears it will blow away in a cyclone. Agius, 40, says it may even be cheaper to knock down and start again. He is furious with the state government building watchdog, the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, for dithering and "agreeing to retrospectively downgrade wind speed cyclone safety standards without my knowledge...

A Townsville telecommunications engineer praised for his cyclone disaster recovery work now faces a disaster of his own. Mark Agius can't move into his new $400,000 house on a hill in the Townsville suburb of Mount Louisa because it has so many defects - and he fears it will blow away in a cyclone. Agius, 40, says it may even be cheaper to knock down and start again. He is furious with the state government building watchdog, the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, for dithering and "agreeing to retrospectively downgrade wind speed cyclone safety standards without my knowledge...