TOOWOOMBA home owners are joining thousands of others in arranging electricians to check foil ceiling insulation to ensure their home is not a death-trap.

ENGLISHMAN Michael Faunce-Brown has learnt the hard way that home is really where the heart is.

BERNIE Vargas Hernandez’s first thought was for her two young children when an explosion sounded outside their Newtown home early yesterday.

WILLIAM Chalfe’s new house was made a home yesterday thanks to the kindness of selfless Toowoomba residents.

ONE month after they were taken on a wild ride by a rampaging elephant, Jarrod and Jordan Meintjes are back in Toowoomba.

MATT McMinn was lucky not to suffocate as smoke and flames filled his Kearneys Spring unit while he slept early Tuesday morning.

From today, anyone selling a home in Queensland will have to fill out a Sustainability Declaration form.

A WOMAN, 19, was dragged to the ground and sexually assaulted in Ruthven Street while walking home alone from New Year’s Eve celebrations early yesterday.

TEARS welled in William Chalfe’s eyes as he surveyed the burnt-out shell of his Jennifer Crescent family home this morning.

A GROUP of thugs threatened a man and his five-year-old daughter who locked themselves in a room during a violent home invasion in Kearneys Spring.

Queensland police say holiday-makers should take a few simple precautions to ensure their homes are secure while they are away over the holidays.

ON the side of the New England Highway, a dejected Charlie Mizzi slowly picks through a mess of twisted metal, electrical appliances and kitchenware.

PAUL Cranch got a bonus with the home he purchased in East Toowoomba – a bomb shelter.

A man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for glassing another man, and a home invasion in Toowoomba in southern Queensland.

COLWYN Cattarin is devastated at the loss of precious home movies featuring important milestones in her two sons’ lives after a burglar broke into their home.

ACQUIRING illicit drugs for experimentation proved costly for Peter William James Purcell.

TOOWOOMBA’S namesake warship will return to home soil today after 182 days at sea.

DRUNKEN driver Bevan Raymond Chantler crashed into a retirement village garden and then drank the rest of his beer while waiting for emergency services.

YESTERDAY’S interest rate rise will not be the last, Chamber of Commerce president Geoff McDonald warned Toowoomba home owners.

A SUNSHINE Coast couple’s home was almost totally destroyed when their caravan flipped on the Gore Highway just outside Toowoomba at 9 yesterday morning.