AN impulse purchase while visiting family on the Sunshine Coast led to a retired Darling Downs man winning $100,000 on an Instant Scratch-It ticket.

A TOOWOOMBA woman has won over $1.8 million in Saturday night’s Gold Lotto Superdraw after using her children’s names and birthdays to select the numbers.

WIN TV news reader Marita Ramia will read her last bulletin for the Toowoomba television news service next month.

`SOLICITORS for a Toowoomba teenager accused of using the internet to lure an underage girl for sex are to make submissions to police on the charges.

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.

54 Queenslanders are being honoured today for their contribution to the Australian community.

IF YOU need a bit of pampering after a hard start to the year, The Chronicle is offering two lucky readers the chance to win $250 cash.

BUY The Chronicle next Monday and Tuesday and you could win $250 cash.

DAVID Mitchell has won the annual Drag ‘n’ Dag competition at McGregor Summer School.

A $5000 fine imposed on Brothers Toowoomba Rugby League (TRL) Club for allegedly “bringing the game into disrepute has been quashed on appeal.

THERE’S a special piece of Christmas magic in Sardon Street. The O’Reilly sisters have won The Chronicle’s Christmas Lights 2009 competition for the second year.

TOOWOOMBA couple Denis and Kay Wall are looking forward to a very merry Christmas after winning a $500,000 lottery.

IT IS not often that a member of State Parliament steals the national spotlight.

TOOWOOMBA teenager Elsley McDermid’s confession that she doesn’t care about world issues has won her a trip to Canberra to discuss, ironically, world issues.

THEY may be the ones giving out the report cards at the end of the semester, but three Darling Downs teachers have received an A-plus achievement of their own.

ONE lucky Chronicle reader could win $15,000 in a fantastic home package right before Christmas — thanks to Harvey Norman.

RETIRED couple Norm and Jude Armitage yesterday received the best going away present they could have hoped for — a brand new car.

IT was the phone call that Wendy Delforce had to sit down to take.

Stop Lying scored a barrier-to-box win for Nozi Tomizawa in the Damien Coonan Electrical Class 3 Handicap (1000m).

IT was more difficult this year as the quality of the Grand Champion and the Reserve Grand Champion winners was incredibly high.