Friday, February 19, 2016

Sue's healing touch helps Toowoomba dogs and other top stories.

  • Sue's healing touch helps Toowoomba dogs

    THE rise of small-block housing and overly pampered pooches has left Sue Bloom a very busy woman.Years ago she acquired a dingo that caused her to realise some dogs need more attention than others.She set about rearranging her life to fit in with her treasured best friend and learned to be an animal behaviouralist, even working as a trainer on the film Babe and a number of television series.Along the way she discovered courses that taught her to work with energy, both for training and healing p..
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  • Toowoomba shows support for ill mayor Steve Jones

    Toowoomba shows support for ill mayor Steve Jones
    THE thoughts and prayers of Toowoomba are with Lockyer Valley Mayor Steve Jones, the Garden City's mayor says. Cr Jones suffered a massive stroke yesterday during a meeting. He was rushed to Ipswich Hospital and later to Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical condition. The two councillors have been mayors of neighbouring regions for a long time. Cr Antonio said Cr Jones' medical issue came out of  "left field". "I'm sure the whole Toowoomba region hopes and prays that his g..
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  • Mayor pledges to make jobs a priority if re-elected

    Mayor pledges to make jobs a priority if re-elected
    TOOWOOMBA Mayor Paul Antonio has pledged that if he's re-elected one of his priorities will be the encouragement of further development of the Toowoomba Enterprise Hub, paving the way for 15,000 new jobs for the region. "Regional cities such as Toowoomba and surrounding districts have enormous potential when it comes to the delivery of what Australia needs; jobs, vision and growth," he said. Cr Antonio said with many new plans and infrastructure programs ready to go, the enterprise hub ..
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  • Southeast gets a soaking from wild storms

    Southeast gets a soaking from wild storms
    Heavy clouds 25km west of Toowoomba. Pic Mark Cranitch.WILD storms soaked parts of southeast Queensland for more than five hours last night, dumping up to 161mm of rain near Toowoomba.Power was cut to nearly 2700 properties in Ipswich to Brisbane, and suburbs pounded with up to 100mm of rain in 30 minutes as the “very dangerous” storm cell moved in from the Lockyer Valley and Scenic Rim towards Ipswich.It was part of a wide band of storm activity stretching from the Wide Bay to the southeast coa..
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  • Mate's drunken prank prompts vicious assault

    POURING beer down a mate's trousers as a drunken prank turned ugly for a Toowoomba man when his beer-soaked mate turned and punched him in the face. Michael William Reed, 24, and the complainant man, 24, had been out on the town on the night of November 27, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard. The pair arrived back at the residence they shared with a woman friend about 5.45am and were outside when the mate poured beer down the back of Reed's trousers while he was bent over, police prosecu..
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  • Our Say: Lockout laws have pros, cons

    Our Say: Lockout laws have pros, cons
    THE government's new lockout laws have attracted plenty of comment from readers and interested groups in the community. On the face of it it would appear that reducing the amount of time people have access to alcohol should translate to people having less alcohol in their systems, leading to the possibility of reduced violence on our streets. Certainly no one is arguing that we do not have a problem with late night alcohol-fuelled violence in many of our cities. Toowoomba is no worse..
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  • Queensland film 'Don't Tell' starts production at Ipswich

    Queensland film 'Don't Tell' starts production at Ipswich
    'Don't Tell' Actress Kiara Freeman, who plays Lyndal. Photo: Supplied Production has begun in Ipswich on a film that delves into the true story of one woman's legal case that broke the silence on child sex abuse in Queensland.Based on lawyer Stephen Roche's book 'Don't Tell', the Australian film starring Rachel Griffiths and Jack Thompson follows the true story of 22-year-old child abuse survivor Lyndal, who took on a legal battle and won against Toowoomba Pr..
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  • Lovers' tiff lay behind woman's $14000 rampage

    Lovers' tiff lay behind woman's $14000 rampage
    A RIVERVIEW woman who went on a rampage causing thousands of dollars' worth of damage to numerous businesses has appeared in court. Malorey Ashligh Doyle, 20, was charged earlier this month with six counts of wilful damage after smashing more than 20 windows at a suburban shopping centre. Doyle also attempted to set fire to an industrial bin located next to two gas cylinders at the Mitchell St, Riverview complex. Six businesses were targeted in the midnight rampage including a post o..
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  • Brisbane weather: Storm warning for south-east Queensland

    Brisbane weather: Storm warning for south-east Queensland
    A very dangerous storm features in the Bureau of Meteorology 6.50pm storm warning. Photo: Bureau of Meteorology A 117km/h wind gust has already been reported as a severe storm warning covers a large span of south-east Queensland.A very dangerous thunderstorm was bearing down on the Ipswich area just before 7pm.The Bureau of Meteorology reported that 99 millimetres of rain fell south of Gatton and Laidley in just half an hour, creating a significant flood risk..
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  • Catholic teachers set to strike on Southern Downs

    Catholic teachers set to strike on Southern Downs
    CATHOLIC school staff across the Southern Downs may take part in a strike action on Thursday. Independent Education Union of Australia - Queensland and Northern Territory (IEUA-QNT) said in the Warwick area alone, there were six schools with more than 120 members authorised to take stop-work action. IEUA-QNT branch secretary Terry Burke said it would be up to Queensland Catholic school employers to decide whether schools would remain open. Executive director for Diocese of Toowoomba ..
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