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Toowoomba trainers shine in Queensland premiership battle | Toowoomba Chronicle

FIVE stables will be out to end the 2014-15 racing year on a high note for Toowoomba-trained horses when racing returns to Clifford Park on Saturday for its final meeting of the season. Racing resumes at Clifford Park after a lay-day last Saturday to ... >> view original

Toowoomba a key player in Mobil's 120-year history | Toowoomba Chronicle

IN February 1973, former cricket umpire Lou Rowan visited the Toowoomba Red Lion Mobil Service Station for "cricket at the pumps", giving young players and fans an opportunity to meet the cricket star. To celebrate Mobil Oil Australia's 120-year ... >> view original

Inquest into FIFO impacts comes to Toowoomba | Toowoomba Chronicle

Committee chairman Jim Pearce MP said the aim was to engage as many people as possible to hear the impacts on workers, families, communities and industries. Public hearings will be held in Toowoomba and Dalby on July 27 and in Roma on July 28. >> view original

Fire crews at Toowoomba North State School blaze

QUEENSLAND Fire and Rescue crews are currently on scene following a fire at Toowoomba North State School this morning. A QFRS spokeswoman said crews attended a structural fire on the corner of Mort and Taylor streets, Toowoomba about 9.57am. >> view original

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Toowoomba thoroughbred trainer Rochelle Smith will face a stewards' inquiry next week after two horses in her care returned positives to cobalt. The Smith-trained Vimzig returned a cobalt positive sample after winning a race at Toowoomba on May 16 and ... >> view original

Toowoomba students left 'shivering in the cold' | Toowoomba Chronicle

FUNDING for a new school hall in Toowoomba has become a contentious issue with two governments volleying the matter across the table. Toowoomba North MP Trevor Watts and Education Minister Kate Jones have gone head-to-head on a number of ... >> view original

Grammar rugby players add names to Toowoomba honour board

TWO Toowoomba Grammar School students will add their names to an impressive Darling Downs rugby union honour board when they pull on Australian colours this year. Five-eighth Hamish Stewart and loose head prop Harry Hoopert are the latest ... >> view original

Cafe brews new chapter for historic Toowoomba site | Toowoomba Chronicle

Toowoomba financial firm Elodus Financial has recognised the potential of the old convenience store site on the corner of Holberton and Taylor St and is converting the building into their office space as well as a cafe, Extraordinary Joe. The ... >> view original

Toowoomba nightclub kick to head earns man jail term | Toowoomba Chronicle

KICKING a nightclub patron in the head after he had been felled by a mate's punch has landed a Toowoomba man with a jail term and a sizeable fine. Andrew John Lipsett, 27, and a mate had become involved in a verbal altercation with some other people at ... >> view original

Queensland police hunt robber who menaced shopkeeper in Toowoomba - 9news.com.au

Queensland detectives are hunting for an armed robber who tried to hold up a convenience store and menaced a shopkeeper with a knife in Toowoomba earlier this month. Police said the masked bandit burst into the shop on Perth Street, in the Toowoomba ... >> view original