A TOOWOOMBA hotel could be forced to remove glass from one of its hospitality areas as part of the State Government’s campaign to curb glassings.

EMERGENCY services personnel met in Toowoomba this morning to sharpen their skills at disaster management training.

TOOWOOMBA beauties are set to compete in the first heat of the Ralph Australian Swimwear Model of the Year competition at the Shamrock Hotel tomorrow night.

THE parent company of Toowoomba Metal Technologies (TMT) has announced it will invest $6.15 million into its Ballarat site while the future of TMT is unclear.

POLICE have arrested 52 people on 133 charges after raids throughout Toowoomba targeted thieves and drug offenders.

PEAK morning traffic was thrown in chaos yesterday morning when a traffic crash blocked major inner city roads.

TOOWOOMBA boy Dominic Doyle left the city as head of Darling Downs rugby, but has returned to a vastly different playing field.

AN EMOTIONAL service was held yesterday to farewell former Toowoomba deputy mayor Peter Wood.

SINGING tutor Anne Gralow is almost beside herself with pride that 16 Toowoomba youths made it through the audition process into internationally acclaimed Gondwana Choirs.

ATER Kuot was at Wilsonton shopping centre when he noticed the Sacred Heart parish collection for earthquake victims in Haiti.

FAMILY-OWNED supermarket Betros Brothers will mix it with the big guns when the store competes for the Brisbane Markets Retailer of the Year award.

TOOWOOMBA motorists are getting more bang for their bowser buck.

LINTHORPE farmer Grant Mason hopes today’s visit from opposition spokesman on agriculture John Cobb will bring him the help he desperately needs.

Jin Park rates our fish and chips while Lee JaeHo has been sold on barbecues.

IT is not often that an Australian can wield a knife in New York City without any consequences, unless you are Crocodile Dundee that is.

RELOCATING to another city was not necessarily the answer to changing one’s lifestyle, former Toowoomba man Cody Justin White was told by a city magistrate.

IT was one of Toowoomba’s most shocking murders – the discovery of two little boys who had been beaten and stomped on.

THE SECURITY of a daily, affordable bus link with Brisbane may soon be assured with Stonestreets Coaches set to take over the Toowoomba Transit service.

WET weather has brought more cane toads to Toowoomba’s gardens and streets and resident Ferdi Knobloch tries to cull the pests every chance he gets.

DAVID Pidcock was holding out for Boxing Day sales to buy his big screen television.