Neighbour alerts ambulance to help 16-year-old on fire in Toowoomba and other top stories.

• Neighbour alerts ambulance to help 16-year-old on fire in Toowoomba

  

  The Queensland Ambulance Service transported a 16-year-old boy to the Toowoomba Base Hospital with burns to 15 per cent of his body after receiving an emergency call from a neighbour who saw him on fire.Both the ambulance service and police attended just before 3pm on Saturday. A teenager suffered burns to 15 per cent of his body. Photo: Supplied A police spokesperson said the boy appeared to have been playing with fire at a Gowrie Birnam Road property, on Toowoomba's western outskirts.S..

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• Warwick football teams have Sunday games in Toowoomba

  

  FOOTBALL: After wins in both premier and reserve men last weekend, Warwick Wolves senior coach Jon Pearson is hoping to repeat the wins against Rockville at Captain Cook Park tomorrow. “We should be close to full strength,” Pearson said.“The senior teams are just trying to play at the level required in Toowoomba and we are getting there quite well.”Pearson is not sure what to expect in the fixture season after playing Rockville in pre-season games.“We were both under strength for the earlier ga..

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• Alex Cutmore to play 100th game for Redbacks today

  

  AUSSIE RULES: Alex Cutmore will be the pride of the Warwick Redbacks team when he lines up in the first ruck at Heritage Oval in Toowoomba today. Cutmore will play his 100th game for the club as he returns from a broken finger for his first game of the season.Andrew Politch will also return for the game against South Toowoomba at Heritage Oval.Redbacks life member Colin Pope said Cutmore was a sensational player.“He is a good on-field leader and was captain for three seasons,” Pope said.“Alex m..

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• Travel takes its toll on cancer patient

  

  HAVING an extremely rare and incurable cancer isn't without its challenges for Helen McDonald. But her treatment and recovery has been made even harder by the lack of cancer care services at her closest hospital. Late last year the Warwick woman was diagnosed with NETs (Neuroendocrine tumors), a condition that affects six and a half people out of every one million. From the moment doctors first realised something was wrong, Helen has been backwards and forwards between Toowoomba and ..

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• Starting up next big thing

  

  THE State Government might not know it yet, but Jarryd Townson is confident Mackay's startup scene is on the cusp of becoming a pretty big deal. This week, for example, the region was over- represented at The Advance Queensland Innovation and Investment Summit in Brisbane from April 27-29, with Mackay filling 12 of the 15 spots from central Queensland. And this weekend four residents will compete at the sunshine Coast Startup Weekend. But despite the region's leadership when it comes to..

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