Students come to table for Toowoomba's Family Week and other top stories.

• Students come to table for Toowoomba's Family Week

  

  THE loud ringing of the old Wagner family dinner bell brought in a group of primary school students to the Come to the Table Family Week launch. The year six students from Christian Outreach College joined with members of the Family Week committee and other dignitaries at InBound Brasserie Platform to signify the importance of having dinner with your family. The bell, from Family Week patron Mary Wagner, was the same one used to call her own children to dinner. Committee member Cr Ge..

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• Mum of slain teen says D'Ath should hang head in shame

  

  THE community outrage at Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath's decision to slap down a family's passionate plea for justice for their murdered family member has reached fever pitch. Ms D'Ath said in a heartless letter to the teen's family it was not in the public interest to order a coronial inquest into her murder and bring those responsible to justice. Ms D'Ath did not even have the decency to meet with Annette Jane Mason's heartbroken family before making her decision. Annette Jane Maso..

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• Saturday preview: Courier-Mail racing editor Nathan Exelby breaks ...

  

  Doomben Cup1:13TAB Market update for the Doomben Cup THE Courier-Mail’s racing editor Nathan Exelby breaks down the big races at Doomben, headlined by the $650,000 Group 1 Doomben Cup, on Saturday.Track: Good (4)Weather: Mostly sunny, 27CTHE EARLY OIL: FLEMINGTONSTABLE WATCH: ROSEHILLHOT TIPS: WEEKEND BEST BETSBEAT THE BOOKIE: VALUE BETSRace 5: BRC Sprint1350m, Qty G3, 2.41pmIn the run: Charmed Harmony always runs along at a strong clip. Coolring was effective from the front at the Gold Coast. ..

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• Rockhampton Rockets fire up for testing trip

  

  TOM Garlepp will be looking to leave the McDonald's Rockhampton Rockets on a winning note this weekend. The Sydney Kings' co-captain, who signed a short-term contract with the Rockets, will play his last two games for the club against Cairns tonight and Townsville tomorrow night. But it will be no easy feat, with Rockets' coach Neal Tweedy rating these two away games among the hardest in the QBL. The Rockets are coming off a win at home over Toowoomba and a loss away to Mackay in las..

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• Man jailed for bashing the police officer trying to help him

  

  A HEAVILY intoxicated man who bashed a female police officer who was simply trying to get him home safely has been jailed. Casper Zion Tome, 37, pleaded guilty on Friday in Ipswich District Court to serious assault of a police officer while adversely affected with circumstances of aggravation. He also pleaded guilty to three counts of assault and resist police. Crown prosecutor Clare Kelly said the assault took place on June 27, 2015 outside the Royal Hotel at Gatton. She said the..

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• Portrait of a sandwich artist

  

  Ricky GuptaI AM the manager here at Subway Warwick and have been for a bit over five months.I am originally from India and came to Australia nine years ago to gain better qualifications.I spent five years in Sydney studying and have a Bachelor of IT from the University of Ballarat and a Diploma in Business Management from Navitas.I moved to Toowoomba because I had a friend who lived there and I had become a little sick of Sydney.Last year I decided I needed a change as I’d been working in servi..

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• Queensland Labor MPs funded council candidates

  

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• Accused men freed on ute dispute charges

  

  A DISPUTE over payment for mechanical work done on a ute was the background for an alleged violent home invasion, a court has heard.Andrew Peter Finan, 47, and Daryn Bishoff, 31, were arrested after a raid on a Nambour home on Thursday and charged with breaking into a Kunda Park shed early on Tuesday morning.Police allege the men unlawfully entered the shed in which two people were staying at the time.They were charged with assaulting a 26-year-old man at the property before taking cash, mobile..

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• Global investors warming to ag-tech, but Aus playing catch-up

  

  We have heard many times that agriculture will have to double production, using less land and less water, over the next 30 years to meet growing global demand for food, fuel and fibre. It’s clearly a huge challenge. But it’s also a massive opportunity, and one global investors are only just waking up to, as a unique agriculture investment forum in Toowoomba this week found. Michael Dean of AgFunder addresses the inaugural 400M Ag Innovation forum in Toowoomba.   The venture capital boom moved i..

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• Survey shows players believe match-fixing, doping rife

  

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