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Motorists pay dearly

UNDER THE PUMP: In Ipswich, the average price of unleaded petrol jumped 14 cents in 2011 compared to the previous year.

IPSWICH motorists paid more for unleaded petrol last year than their regional counterparts in Toowoomba, according to RACQ's Annual Fuel Price Report.

 

Walkers help three little girls

FAMILY WALK: Daughters of deceased mother Alexis Crawley – Zoe Crawley (left), 2, and Elizabeth Crawley, 3, – with their father Troy Johnson and grandmother Janice Johnson on a fundraising walk with supporters and event organiser Kelly Boxell (centre).

THE streets of Ipswich were awash with people wearing green on Saturday as walkers braved the weather to attend the Walk for My Family.

 

Bag a bargain at book sale

SPREADING THE WORD: Friends of the Ipswich Library Service president Yvonne van de Wiel sorts stock for the first book sale of 2012.

LITERARY treasures galore will be available at the next Friends of the Ipswich Library and Information Service (FOILS) book sale later this month.

 

Riverview kids tell own stories

CREATIVE PROCESS: Artists in residence Narelle Oliver and Daryll Bellingham work with Riverview State School captain Kaio Vaoiva on The Art of Story project.

RIVERVIEW State School students will have an opportunity to construct stories about their own region and lifestyle in an Arts Queensland-funded project this...

 

Plant expo draws far-off fans

IPSWICH City Council has thrown its support behind the inaugural Ipswich Plant Expo to be held at the Ipswich Turf Club on March 3.

 

What really matters?

WITH two elections to deal with from now until the end of April, it's definitely an appropriate time to consider the issues we'd like discussed and how we'd...

 

Kath's on a mission

FRESH FOCUS: Reverend Peter Woodward hands over the ministry of the Ipswich City Uniting Church to Reverend Kath Hobson.

WITH a change of minister at Ipswich City Uniting Church, the congregation is looking forward to a change of focus.

 

Business guru shares success tips

SUCCESS: Peter Irvine

THE co-founder of Gloria Jean's Coffees will be in Ipswich on Tuesday, February 21, as keynote speaker at the 2012 Ipswich Mayoral Breakfast.

 

Gifts galore for SES

BIG DAY: SES co-ordinator Arie van den Ende (at front) tests out the new boat with Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale and Member for Ipswich West Wayne Wendt while Queenslanders Credit Union and Professional Credit Union CEOs John Weier and Paul McGrath look on (left).

THE Ipswich SES has come a long way since Arie van den Ende joined in 1975.

 

Flood starts new chapter

ON RECORD: Hundreds of images of the January flood have been contributed to Picture Ipswich.

IMAGES and memories of the devastating January 2011 floods are to be safely preserved by Ipswich City Council in an online collection.

 

Tom's almost two

TOM is almost two years old and a classic handsome labrador retriever.

 

Premier delays poll, extends inquiry

OVERFLOWING: Wivenhoe Dam spillway as it was on January 15 last year.

IPSWICH voters will go to the polls to elect a new State Government on Saturday, March 24.

 

Sisters make habit of singing

FUN TIMES: Orpheus Chorale’s latest production Nunset Boulevard starts on February 24 with “nuns” (at back) Lauren van de Ven and Eldene McIntosh, joined by (from left) Kate Keenan, Melissa Fellows and Karen Adamson lighting up the stage.

IPSWICH Orpheus Chorale performers are having fun with nuns in the wacky new musical comedy Nunset Boulevard.

 

New focus for prep students

BOOKS OUT: Alex Leonida is a new prep student who started school at Ipswich Grammar School on Monday, with prep teacher Alyce Lindermayer.

THE new 35 prep students enrolled at Ipswich Grammar School (IGS) from last Monday walked into an educational program that's less play-based than in the past.

 

Be thankful for what we share

LEAVING your birth country and making a home in a place thousands of miles away is not an easy process.

Queensland News 

'Dam operators did best possible'

'Dam operators did best possible'

AN ENGINEER has told a flood inquiry that dam operators achieved "the best possible" result when Brisbane and Ipswich were submerged in January last year.

 

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Offbeat News 

Jailed for sleeping in woman's bed

Jailed for sleeping in woman's bed

A WARWICK man, who was channelling famed fairytale character Goldilocks when he broke into a woman's home and slept in her bed, has been jailed.

 

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World News 

'Scores' dead as troops attack Homs

'Scores' dead as troops attack Homs

SCORES, possibly hundreds, of people are thought to have been killed in Syria when President Assad's forces shelled homes in the opposition stronghold of Homs.

 

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