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Huge bill for failed case

By STEVE GRAY THE cost of prosecuting of one of its own councillors has wasted money that could have paid for an audit of Tenterfield...

Out of the chute and on TV

THE Warwick Rodeo looms large when the premiere edition of the monthly Inside Rodeo TV Show which goes to air on Saturday night. The program,...

Railway finds its puff again

SOUTHERN Downs Steam Railway is back on track and a leased locomotive will puff its way to Wallangarra on Australia Day. After a major mechanical...

Health programs fill need

INDIGENOUS elders were treated to an afternoon tea and concert as Warwick’s Carbal Medical Centre hosted an information session about new services available through...

Sunk car emerges

A CAR stolen in Warwick last June was hauled from the Condamine River on Monday. The Mitsubishi sedan was stolen from Locke Street and had...

Scientist is our ambassador

A QUEENSLAND medical research scientist who made a breakthrough skin cancer treatment is the Southern Downs’ Australia Day Ambassador. Dr Jim Aylward will attend...

Distractions kill

DRIVER inattention and distraction has become such a serious problem that it has been added to the ’Fatal Four’ - speeding, fatigue, drink or...

Wellcamp set in concrete

By STEVE GRAY THE Darling Downs new airport at Wellcamp, near Toowoomba, took a major step forward yesterday with the start of construction on the...

Car beheads dinosaur

By STEVE GRAY ONCE again someone has tried to send Ballandean’s dinosaur extinct. However Stanthorpe police think the steel and fibreglass structure was probably clipped by...

Fangs a lot for Careflight

IN A typical year RACQ CareFlight Rescue airlifts around five people suffering snake bites. In just the past month six people been airlifted - a...

CEO flags new hopes for 2014

A CROSS-BORDER agreement with Tenterfield Shire is among the achievements for Southern Downs Regional Council in 2013, according to CEO Andrew Roach. He listed the...

Shire faces review

By STEVE GRAY THE Information Commissioner will review Tenterfield Shire Council’s refusal to release details of staff wages. The Tenterfield Progress Association (TPA, formerly Tenterfield Rates...

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Council issues statement on CEO’s sacking

Southern Downs Regional Council has issued a statement confirming its now-former chief executive Dave Burges was on long service leave at the time of...