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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...

Highway crashes

Warwick Police TWO trucks have crashed at almost the same spot on the New England Highway at The Glen, just south of Warwick, in separate...

Drugs seized

STANTHORPE POLICE A 34-YEAR-OLD male passenger is being charged with possessing a quantity of cannabis and seeds after the drugs and other material in the...

Stingers end pursuit

POLICE used stingers to puncture the tyres of an allegedly stolen car on Sunday night after it had evaded them in Wallangarra. Queensland police were...

Beginners can be show winners

TENTERFIELD Show entrants can boost their chances of impressing show judges by attending a free information day on Wednesday, 22 January at the showground...

Call for local councillors

By STEVE GRAY THEY didn’t save the shire, but they are hoping to restore local representation to the Southern Downs Regional Council. Save Our Shire Stanthorpe...

Southern Downs Rifle Club

ON Sunday 12 January shooters were at the 400-yard range. The day was fine and hot with a changeable wind and mirage that yet...

Tenterfield Veteran Golfers

ON Tuesday 7 January 31 Veterans played a single Stableford event for the Monthly NSW Veteran’s golf shirt trophy. Max Dickson’s took out the event...

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Supplying various countries

Allora and District Days for Girls provides reusable feminine hygiene products through a worldwide organisation which supplies the kits (as they are known) to...