Top End residents face a night of damaging gale-force winds and heavy downpours as tropical cyclone Fina sweeps past. Black Friday Offers

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Residents of Darwin and surrounding regions have been urged not to panic but to stay in their homes or emergency shelters until given the all-clear.

The strengthened category-three system brought destructive wind gusts to remote Tiwi Islands communities after passing over the Cobourg Peninsula overnight into the Van Diemen Gulf.

Forecasters expected Fina to track just north of Darwin, which would cop de

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