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• UQ welcomes 60 new student doctors to Toowoomba

  

  THE University of Queensland Rural Clinical School has welcomed 60 new student doctors to Toowoomba for the 2016 study year.There are 30 Year 3 students who are new to the Rural Clinical School.  Of the 30 Year 4 students, 26 are continuing students who studied Year 3 at Toowoomba in 2015 and chose to remain.School director Dr GeorgeTucker said that the orientation program that had been developed for the students was exciting and extensive."Our new students will be able to meet the outstanding t..

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• Summer tunes comes to Toowoomba region's parks

  

  ENJOY lazy summer Sundays with an outing to Toowoomba Regional Council's free Summer Tunes in the Blooms program.It starts this Sunday and runs until February.Cr Geoff McDonald said performances would start this weekend at four of Toowoomba's premier public parks Ěś the Picnic Point bandstand, the shade shelter area at Laurel Bank Park, at the Newtown Park State Rose Garden and near the Margaret St children's play area in Queens Park."Regional audiences in Oakey, Crows Nest, Millmerran and Pitts..

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• YOUR SAY: Community spirit still alive in Toowoomba

  

  AS THE tinsel and lights get packed away for another year, it is with a feeling of great pride that I offer my heartfelt thanks to the greater community of Toowoomba and surrounding districts for the generosity shown once again over the Christmas period.In 2015 Lifeline Darling Downs and South West Qld in conjunction with The Chronicle Adopt-a-Family program, ABC Southern Queensland/Lifeline Christmas Appeal and the METROCARE Toowoomba "Loads of Love" Promotion were able to extend their support ..

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• Renowned cake decorator comes to Toowoomba

  

  Renowned cake decorator Stephen Benison.WORLD acclaimed UK-based cake decorating legend Stephen Benison is coming to Toowoomba.As the owner of his own cake decorating tool design and distribution company Sugar Artistry, Stephen will run a range of classes for Merivale Cakes and Crafts in Toowoomba and Highfields in July and August.Mr Benison travels the globe demonstrating his unique range of designs that primarily use his own custom-made tools.As an author and regular demonstrator for some of t..

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• Toowoomba workers bungle burglars' plans

  

  TWO would-be thieves were thwarted by the quick and co-operative work by employees of a Toowoomba business and local police.Detective Sergeant Tony Morris of Toowoomba Criminal Investigation Branch said employees had turned up for work at an Easternwell work yard in Toowoomba's western suburbs about 6.15am yesterday to find two intruders.The two men had allegedly broken into the premises a short time earlier with the intention of stealing property."Police were called and were on the scene quickl..

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• Hackerspace Toowoomba the new game design capital?

  

  IF YOU enjoyed a misspent youth playing 2D platform games on the Nintendo or the Sega, you might be surprised to know these days creating something of far better quality can be child's play.And according to 3D artist and game developer Ben O'Brien, Toowoomba even has the potential to revive Australia's flagging game design industry.Aspiring Toowoomba game makers can learn all the basics in an upcoming workshop series designed for people of all ages, to be held at Hackerspace Toowoomba next week...

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• Toowoomba mum and son with rare heart condition

  

  THE first sign Rebecca Clegg had of her two rare heart conditions was a life-threatening cardiac arrest.In 2012 and at just 21-years-old she was revived by paramedics, spent weeks in hospital and was put on life support.It was not until two years later, still with many unanswered questions, that doctors discovered rare genetic heart conditions brugada syndrome and QT syndrome.Ms Clegg learned that the gene that causes both of the conditions did not skip a generation and with two young children s..

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• Charity worker killed in devastating pub fire

  

  UPDATE 4.35PM:Emergency services say the fire that killed Brisbane charity worker Steven Green, 26, was a shocking tragedy.Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Inspector Peter Bradow described the fire as a tragedy for the man's family and the town of Pittsworth which has a chequered history of pub fires."We don't like to see any of these things happen and certainly for a small community to have one of these local icons destroyed is not good," he said.The Tattersalls Club Hotel was built in 19..

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• TSBE celebrates foundation members

  

  TOOWOOMBA and Surat Basin Enterprise CEO Dr Ben Lyons has kicked off the new year sending thanks to the organisation's foundation members.TSBE's foundation members are companies who joined the organisation in its first year of operation and committed to membership for at least three years."As we head into 2016, it is important to reflect on where have come from, what we have achieved and who has assisted us in getting to this point," Dr Lyons said."2015 saw many major milestones for TSBE, one of..

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• $70 millon prize has Lotto lovers lining up at newsagents

  

  THERE won't be many Toowoomba residents who don't have a ticket in tonight's $70million Powerball jackpot.News Express The Range employee Narelle Boyes said customers had been streaming in since the jackpot had been announced."Without a doubt the bigger jackpots bring in more people," she said."$70 million sucks people in straight away even if they have never bought a Lotto ticket before."I think a majority of people will have an entry because no one wants to miss out."She said she expected to b..

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