Word has come through that the Magnetic Island community news publication , claiming to be the island's local newspaper since 1989, has folded , described as another "victim of the virus ". With an anti ALP attitude and a strangely written Police Report section , it had improved in layout of late and the use of dramatic photos of the island taken by a drone , provided by the man who wrote the interesting fishing column . On April 3 we reported that the Thursday Island Cape and Torres News covering Cape York and Torres Strait had been forced to close .