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• 14 things to do in 7 days: Getting out in Toowoomba

  

  FRIDAYBugs AliveGet up close and personal with our insect friends at Cobb and Co's Bugs Alive holiday program.Kevin FarmerGET up close (really close) to the amazing world of insects in the Cobb and Co Museum January holiday program.Join the Cobb and Co crew for three weeks of fun family activities with live insect shows, displays, challenges, crafts, games and more.You can join a live insect show, make your own bug catcher, view 3D bugs with 3D glasses, create your own stick insect or ant, learn..

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• AAMI reveals 58 roo crash claims from Toowoomba

  

  THERE are certain places you want to see kangaroos: open paddocks, opposite the Queen on a $1 coin and in black-and-white Skippy TV marathons.But throw a windshield in the mix at high speed and those iconic marsupials become decidedly unwelcome.Insurer AAMI has revealed it handled 58 kangaroo crash claims from Toowoomba's 4350 postcode in 2014.The Southern Downs also had its fair share of roo smashes, with Warwick's 4370 postcode recording 89 collisions.Stanthorpe (postcode 4380) was next in lin..

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• Store that stocks 40000 items racks up 30 years in CBD

  

  Mel Martin in his Margaret St shop.Peter HardwickMEL Martin's Kitchen and Gift Shop in Margaret St is a constant in an ever-changing city CBD.Mr Martin opened his kitchenware store in 1985 and he's still there today - among his estimated 30,000 to 40,000 kitchen items and gifts.While to a new customer the store may appear cluttered, Mr Martin can soon place his hand on any item requested."I know where most things are, although I've been known to lose some but I usually find it," he said."We've g..

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• Ghostly spider gets Toowoomba Facebookers talking

  

  A STRANGE white spider photographed in a home in Toowoomba has got Facebook talking.Photos of the spider were posted on the Toowoomba Facebookers page overnight.Charanpreet Singh asked the page's followers if they knew the species of spider.No one could agree.One commenter suggested it was a money spider, while another said it was a crab spider that wasn't poisonous to humans.Another weighed in claiming it was a flower spider, a member of the same family as the crab spider.The spider that caused..

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• Toowoomba woman's priceless jewellery collection stolen

  

  A BRAZEN thief has stolen a woman's priceless jewellery collection during a daylight burglary.Wilsonton Heights woman Anne Horrex, 67, is a self confessed "jewelleryholic" and had hundreds of pieces, of mainly yellow gold jewellery, stolen from her home at Lyness Ct on Sunday between 9am and 1pm.She had been out shopping when she came home to find doors open and her bedroom ransacked. Her mobile phone and an amount of $1 and $2 coins were also taken."They came through the back door, the screen d..

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• Toowoomba newborns almost killed after being infected by ...

  

  A rare disease has almost killed two newborn babies after they were both infected with a contagious virus that left them fighting for life in intensive care.Tinley Beutel and Lincoln Elwell, both from Toowoomba in Queensland, suffered almost identical symptoms and were diagnosed with different strands of a group of viruses just weeks after they were born.Baby girl Tinley was born healthily on December 2 but fell ill three weeks later when she stopped eating, developed a temperature and became ..

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• Boxer jailed for vicious one-punch attack

  

  ONE punch that left his victim unconscious and convulsing on a Toowoomba footpath was enough to land troubled boxer Damien Hooper with another jail term.In sentencing the 23-year-old to four months in jail, Magistrate Damian Carroll reminded everyone in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court of the "One Punch Can Kill" campaign."Just last night we saw (on television news) how an 18-year-old man had died after being punched in Brisbane's CBD," Mr Carroll said.Hooper's victim had been in the yard of his ..

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• Jumbo Prince eyeing royal Magic Millions pay day

  

  TOOWOOMBA stayer Jumbo Prince will be out to enhance his bargain-buy status when he lines up as one of the top fancies in this week's Magic Millions Trophy (1800m) at the Gold Coast.The $8000 sale buy has built a prize money kitty of $520,300 in 27 starts and yesterday his hopes of adding to that purse received a boost when he drew favourably in Saturday's $1million race.Jumbo Prince has drawn barrier eight in the 14-horse, plus five emergencies, field as he looks to successfully complete a long..

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• Vietnam vet Kerry White releases his third book

  

  VIETNAM veteran and former Toowoomba man Kerry White has released his third book called Three of a Kind.Mr White has reflected on how life led him to where he is today; an established author and freelance writer residing on the Sunshine Coast.It all began in Toowoomba where he was born and spent most of his life.Mr White's inspiration for the novels was from his time as a serving solider in Vietnam from 1966-67.But it was returning to Toowoomba where a series of life events lead him to discover ..

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• Man, 21, falls 100m down Table Top Mountain

  

  Man, 21, falls 100m down Table Top MountainA man has walked away from a 100 metre fall at Table Top Mountain at Toowoomba.Photo: SuppliedA 21-year-old man has walked himself down a mountain at Toowoomba after he fell from a significant height on Wednesday.Queensland Ambulance Services were called to Table Top Mountain at 12.01pm after reports a man had fallen 100 metres.When paramedics arrived, they found the man conscious and breathing, with cuts to his chest and back.A rescue helicopter, which..

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