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• PM Turnbull headed to city in December to mark bypass

  

  AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will visit Toowoomba next month, as part of a Toowoomba Range bypass sod turning dinner.Mr Turnbull will be joined by Deputy Prime Minister, Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss.PM Malcolm Turnbull is headed to Toowoomba in December.The Sunday, December 6 event costs $190 a person and is being held at the Empire Theatre Armitage Auditorium from 7pm.For more information contact Jim Curtis on 0427 001 775 or email jim.curtis@nectarmortgage..

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• Test flight to beef up regional access to Asia

  

  THE FIRST international freighter carrying produce from Toowoomba to Hong Kong is set to open up massive opportunities for regional producers. A Cathay ...

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• New flavour for Robert's fun opera company

  IT'S not unusual for Harristown State High School home economics teacher Robert Williams to randomly burst into an operatic performance in the middle of class.As well as being an excellent cook, Mr Williams is a professionally trained opera singer.It was a desire to bond with his father that led him to discover his love of singing, develop an international career and now the establishment of a new opera company - Toowoomba Opera Players."I came late to singing when I was 21 and looking for a way..

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• EDITORIAL: Care needed during the heat wave

  

  IT IS going to be a hot one today - and probably tomorrow.Temperatures in Toowoomba are tipped to hit 34 degrees and go as high as 42 in regions west of here.For anyone who has spent time in the tropics, it is difficult to see what the fuss is all about.But Toowoomba people are used to one of the best and most moderate climates in Australia.So they will feel the heat.It is appropriate to heed warnings that emergency services personnel have issued.Be especially careful to make sure neither childr..

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• Police on site as snake spotted at Queens Park playground

  

  TOOWOOMBA police are on-the-scene at the Queens Park playground after a 000 call reported a snake slithering across the park.The snake moved from nearby to Frogs Hollow amphitheatre up to the playground, finding shelter from hungry magpies in the hollow of a tree.Kevin Lancashire notified police when he saw a snake in Queens Park.Kevin FarmerKevin Lancashire said he was reading a book on a bench at about 2.45pm when he saw the magpies and butcher birds swooping a metre-long snake.He originally l..

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• Floods devastate south-east

  

  IPSWICH, Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley were devastated when massive rains systems dumped record falls across the region in January, 2011.Before the floods had event hit Ipswich, the city's firefighters were called west to help Lockyer Valley residents swept up in the wall of water that came down the range.The force of the water washed houses from their foundations in Murphy's Creek and Grantham, taking vehicles away. In separate storms that hit Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, 21 people were..

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• YOUR SAY: Trail walk for Escarpment Parks would be ideal

  

  IT WAS wonderful to hear the positive comments by Professor Jan Thomas in her recent column about Toowoomba's Escarpment Parks and Toowoomba's early history.The various vantage points along the range whether it be Mt Kynoch, Prince Henry Drive, Picnic Point or Duggan Park offer visitors fantastic views over the Lockyer Valley and beyond, and west over the vast Darling Downs.But it could be so much more. Consider the tourism benefits an escarpment trail from south of Toowoomba to Spring Bluff and..

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• Perfect storms on chaser cam

  A ground strike is captured at Hodgson Vale outside Toowoomba. ... through the sky as a grassfire burns at Cecil Plains near Oakey, west of Toowoomba.

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• Genrich gears for hectic night behind the wheels

  

  LOCAL speedway star Scott Genrich may struggle to shake your hand by the end of racing tonight as he attempts to race in two separate cars in two separate divisions at Hi-Tec Oils Speedway's inaugural Will Power 500 meeting.The Toowoomba painting contractor will do in excess of 85 laps tonight as he straps in to the cockpit of both his #37 Sedl Contracting Ultimate Sprintcar, and the #18 Linear Graphics Lightning Sprint,"I've only tried racing both cars on the same night once last year, and I en..

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• Jockeys urge another rethink on whip rule changes

  AUSTRALIAN jockeys will continue their push for a rethink on upcoming changes to national whip riding rules with a compromise proposal to be put to officials this weekend.Racing Australia (RA) plans to introduce the rule changes on December 1.The updated rules will limit jockeys to striking horses only five times - backhand or forehand - before the 100-metre mark of all races.Amendments to the rules, introduced in 2009, will include increased monetary fines and likely suspensions in Group and Li..

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