Toowoomba win paves way for national title and other top stories.

• Toowoomba win paves way for national title

  

  Friday, 22 July 2016THE Quest Apartments in Toowoomba, Queensland, has just won two state awards from the Building Designers Association Queensland (BDAQ). Now the project builders will attempt to repeat their success in the national awards.FKG Group won the BDAQ Best Commercial Building Over $5 Million and Building Design Premier Award for the eight-storey structure, which incorporates a century-old church. Company group executive chairman Gary Gardner said it was the first time since 2005 th..

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• Young army pilot pulls elderly man from burning car near Toowoomba

  

  An army cadet has been praised for trying to save the life of an 85-year-old man engulfed in flames after his car crashed into a tree near Toowoomba.The army crew, still in training, was flying over Cooyar when the fiery wreckage was spotted.After the crew made an emergency landing, young cadet Ingrid Dylan rushed to the rescue of the man whose car had exploded after crashing on Pierces Creek Road, near Crows Nest around 7.35pm. Ms Dylan said her “instincts” kicked in when she ran into the infe..

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• 'What happened to Paris is horrific'

  

  A TEENAGER severely burnt when she was engulfed in flames after a boy threw accelerant on a backyard fire is suing a mother for $11.8 million for failing to supervise a party.Paris Turkington, then 16, was at a Toowoomba home in August 2013 when the boy, 15, who was not invited to the party, poured accelerant on a brazier fire.The girl was engulfed in a sheet of flame, according to a Supreme Court claim.Ms Turkington, now 19, has third-degree burns to 42 per cent of her body and face. She still ..

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• Missing man found after fatal crash on outback road

  

  Police have located the man missing after a fatal car crash in far north Queensland on Thursday evening.Police and emergency crews conducted an extensive search for the 25-year-old after they discovered the single vehicle accident with the 20-year-old driver deceased. A man is missing after a single-vehicle crash on an outback road. Photo: Georgia Matts Family members had reported the pair missing.The 25-year-old was located shortly before 5pm on Friday and was taken to Cairns Base Hospi..

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• Brisbane flights return to normal after heavy fog lifts

  

  Brisbane flights return to normal after heavy fog lifts Updated July 22, 2016 09:16:04 Flights from Brisbane are back to normal after delays from heavy fog this morning, the second to blanket the city this week.Motorists also reported trouble seeing along the M1 through Loganholme and into Brisbane. A spokesperson for Brisbane Airport said the fog had delayed some domestic flights by up to half an hour, but planes still managed to depart.On Tuesday, more than 100 flight..

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• Broncos tell Molo to take time out

  

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• Former cop to stand trial for murder

  

  A FORMER police officer will stand trial for allegedly murdering his defacto wife in a calculated plot to cash in a multimillion-dollar life insurance policy.Lainie Coldwell was found at the base of a tree with massive head injuries in August 2009.Her partner Louis Mahony told police she had fallen from a ladder trying to remove decorative lights.But authorities doubted his story and the investigation was ramped up with the efforts of the homicide and cold case squads before Mahony was charged w..

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• Mum punches cops in rough end to big night out

  

  A MOTHER whose night out in Maroochydore’s Ocean St precinct ended in arrest and serious charges now has a jail term hanging over her head.Zoe Jayde Cain, 26 and her partner Paora Thomas Packer, 28, fronted Maroochydore Magistrates Court together on Friday to be sentenced for what Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist described as a “deplorable incident of drunken, public violence”.Police prosecutor Sergeant Shane Raison said Packer had been involved in an incident with bouncers at the Piano Bar when of..

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• Passerby pulls man from burning crash wreckage

  

  UPDATE 7.40AM: A man critically injured in a fiery single-vehicle crash north of Toowoomba last night has this morning died in hospital. The 85-year-old driver and sole occupant of the vehicle died as a result of injuries sustained in the horrific crash near Cooyar about 6.45pm. A dramatic rescue mission unfolded after the crashed vehicle was spotted by an Army air crew doing a fly-over of the area. The crew called emergency services after they pulled the man from the burning wreck an..

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