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IPSWICH City Council is on the hunt for treasured

IPSWICH City Council is on the hunt for treasured photographs depicting the city’s early history as Ipswich marks 150 years since it first became a municipality.

Urgent need for carers

INALA Community House is calling for more people to become home daycare carers with the western corridor currently experiencing a shortage.
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Richlands stop

FOLLOWING an 18-month long community campaign to get a bus stop put outside the Western Districts Courthouse, news has arrived that it will finally happen.
Dirty dusting

STAGE and screen stalwart Joan Sydney (pictured right) returns to Ipswich next month in a hilarious comedy play about ‘over the hill’ cleaners who start ‘talking...

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News

Aussie threat shuts down US schools

A VAGUE threat apparently posted by an Australian on two internet sites led to the lockdown of all schools in the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis.

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Entertainment

Paris Masterpieces extends Aussie stay

THE National Gallery of Australia will extend its Masterpieces from Paris exhibition to cater for record attendances.

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Lifestyle

Zoo hopes to sell giant panda poo

ADELAIDE'S giant pandas do giant poos. But surely it's a stretch to describe the dung as "famous for its fragrant aroma".

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Sport

Terri-Ann Cain, Hannah Joye and Samantha Formby.

Students raring to go

THREE Forest Lake College students are tipped to perform well at this year’s Australian Youth Track and Field Championships.

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Business

Mexican Carlos Slim tops world rich list

THE world's new richest man, Mexican Carlos Slim, and a fresh crop of billionaires in Asia surged forward in wealth in 2010, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.

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