Last Top Stories: Rare disease almost kills 2 Toowoomba newborns

• Rare disease almost kills 2 Toowoomba newborns

  

  A RARE disease left two Toowoomba newborns fighting for life and sparked a warning for new parents to be on the lookout for symptoms.Baby Tinley Beutel fell ill about three weeks after she was born and was rushed to Brisbane's Lady Cilento Children's Hospital where she was diagnosed with parechovirus.After a period in intensive care, Tinley is back at home with her brother and sister.Baby Tinley Beutel at Lady Cilento Children's hospital in Brisbane suffering from parechovirus.Photo Contributed"..

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• How Cobb and Co came to Toowoomba 150 years ago

  

  COBB and Co's coaches began running in Queensland on January 1, 1866.About 6am in Toowoomba, passengers boarded a new red coach outside Frasers Queens Arms Hotel on the north eastern corner of Ruthven and Margaret Sts.With a blast of the driver's bugle the coach and four horses headed down Ruthven St to James St, before heading to the Toll Bar Rd down the range.It was a steep and dangerous trip down the mountain track.Passengers were delivered to the railway at Grandchester at 9am for a trip on ..

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• Toowoomba MPs pour cold water on no booze proposal

  

  A CALL for politicians to remain under the blood alcohol limit of .05 at all times while working has been met with ambivalence from Toowoomba's MPs.Defence Secretary Paul Barratt this week said unless the minister was on leave, they should be under the limit, because they could be called to duty at any time.Federal Member for Groom Ian Macfarlane said he was not "buying into the idea" of placing restrictions on politicians ability to drink on the job."I behave properly at all times, I don't thin..

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• Uncertain times for Dick Smith stores in Toowoomba

  

  STAFF at Toowoomba's two Dick Smith stores will face a period of uncertainty after the electronic retailer was placed in receivership following the appointment of voluntary administrators.There are two Dick Smith stores in the Garden City, at Grand Central and Clifford Gardens Shopping Centre.On Monday the company requested its shares be placed in a trading halt.Today Ferrier Hodgson partners James Stewart, Jim Sarantinos and Ryan Eagle were appointed receivers and managers over Dick Smith Holdi..

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• Toowoomba woman helps Darling Downs cancer patients

  

  TOOWOOMBA community support co-ordinator Amber Copland had a busy 2015 helping hundreds of south west Queensland cancer patients seek vital support.More than 4500 Queenslanders received assistance through Cancer Council Queensland's supportive care programs in 2015 - around 780 in south west Queensland alone.Cancer Council Queensland spokeswoman Katie Clift said the organisation's supportive care programs were available statewide for metro and regional Queenslanders."In 2015 we provided 61 suppo..

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