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FRIENDS of Jarrad Duncan, 20, who was killed in a motorbike accident earlier this month, have paid tribute to the car enthusiast at the burnouts.

Dozens turned out at Madaz Burnouts at Queensland Raceway, which Jarrad planned to take part in on Saturday.

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A-League hopes get kick along IPSWICH’S bid to secure a future A-League football licence has received strong backing from deputy Mayor Victor Attwood.

Cr Attwood said having a team representing the region would have widespread benefits.

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A MAN arrested for allegedly carrying highly volatile home-made bombs in his car, and fooling drivers into believing he was a police officer, will appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court today.

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IPSWICH HOT FOR GROWTH

SCORCHING: Shane and Sue Fox with Anthony, 5, and Tim, 3, at Robelle Domain yesterday. Ipswich rates as one of the state’s fastest growing areas.

A POPULATION boom of more than 9100 new residents to the Ipswich region in 2012–13 has confirmed future growth forecasts that the number of residents will double by 2036.

New figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has

revealed Ipswich, Somerset and the Lockyer Valley are among the top five fastest growing regions in Queensland behind mining towns, Weipa and Gladstone.

Ipswich recorded the largest and fastest population increase of more than 3% in the Greater Brisbane

area, moving to 183,105 last year.

The population explosion is the biggest surge the city’s seen since 2009 when 10,150 new residents moved to the area.

Unsurprisingly, the largest growth in 2012–13 was seen in the developing areas of Springfield

Lakes (7.8%), Bellbird Park/Brookwater (7%), Goodna (5.2%) and Redbank Plains.

Meanwhile, Ipswich’s inner suburbs of Ripley and Ipswich North shared a 3.4% population increase.

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TWO men were struck by lightning and a house roof was punctured by an electrical bolt in Brassall during yesterday’s fierce thunderstorms.

Tim Collins and Glen Harper were preparing a camp oven roast when lightning struck the metal pergola at the back of the Alexandra St home after 4pm.

Mr Collins claimed it was the fourth time he had been hit by lightning.

“My mate was heating up some hot rocks and I was leaning on the other side of the barbecue,” a shaken Mr Harper said.

“It threw me back and I thought, ‘where did that come’. I felt it go through my arms.”

A Queensland Ambulance representative said both men escaped serious injury and were transported to Ipswich Hospital for precautionary treatment.

“It looks like they have earthed out the lightning strike by standing there,” he said.

Mr Collins’ wife Tracy, who was at home with their two children, said a minor entry wound was visible on her husband’s hand.

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Chris Owen Kiri ten Dolle CHRIS Pattison has become an unlikely casualty in the Newman Government’s war on criminal bikie gangs.

The owner of Bev’s Jukebox Hire in Redbank Plains has been renting music equipment to the Life and Death Motorcycle Club since he took over the business.

The 52-year-old said the club had been a regular customer of his and hired jukeboxes for clubhouse functions in Bundamba.

He distributes juke boxes throughout Ipswich, Laidley and Lowood.

But due to Queensland’s tough new anti-bikie laws, Mr Pattison said the club was now unable meet for fear of prosecution.

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Man faces trial over alleged rail rape A MAN has gone on trial accused of raping a woman he befriended while travelling on the Ipswich rail line.

Thomas Larry, 36, is alleged to have left the train with the woman to find a bottleshop – before hitting her over the head, dragging her into bushland and then raping her.

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Teen to be youngest lawyerever BASKETBALLER, martial arts teacher, violinist – Josef Erece has achieved a lot and he’s only 16.

Now the USQ Springfield student is on track to become the youngest lawyer in Australia and New Zealand. And those who know him say he’s humble and has his family’s constant support.

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Business confidence is surging A SURGE in business confidence in Ipswich is being replicated in an increase in activity in the housing market A Westpac Group CCIQ Pulse Survey for the September quarter revealed a jump of 13 percent in the wider Brisbane area.

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RATS SPARK SNAKE FIRE: DOG RAISES ALARM Family of eight is left homeless by blaze that killed 40 pet pythons A YOUNG family of eight is mourning the loss of 40 pet snakes after fire gutted their home.

Fire crews were called to the Queen St property in Goodna about 9am yesterday to find the single-level brick dwelling well alight.

Durack Fire Station officer Gary Devitt said the fire started in a double garage after rats were believed to have chewed through wires powering heat lamps in the family’s python enclosures.

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Re-trial for murder in Quirk case THE flatmate convicted of bashing Amanda Quirk to death in the Booval home they shared has been granted a re-trial.

Christopher James Swan fought his murder conviction in the Queensland Court of Appeal, arguing he should have been granted a trial separate to fellow flatmate Rachel Narelle Smith.

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SOME voters are up in arms over allegedly dangerous roadside campaigning by LNP candidate for Blair Teresa Harding.

Ms Harding is under fire for waving at traffic in peak-hour and dangerous placement of signs. She has dismissed the complainants as “disgruntled Labor voters”.

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Kiri ten Dolle his 12-year-old pomeranian Smokey (both pictured right) alerted him to the fire. He said he tried to help douse the fire with a garden hose before crews arrived, but it was too late.

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FORMER Ipswich Jets coach Glenn Lazarus has ramped up his push for a Senate seat with the Palmer United Party.

Mr Lazarus visited Ipswich yesterday for a luncheon to help launch the election campaign of PUP’s candidate for Blair, Anthony Stanton.

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PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY GIRL’S BODY A year after Tina disappeared, her father makes a desperate appeal to solve the mystery THE father of missing woman Tina Greer has made an emotional plea for new information on the eve of the first anniversary of his daughter’s disappearance.

The 32-year-old mother was last seen on January 18, 2012, when she left her Beechmont home to visit her boyfriend, a patch member of the Finks Motorcycle Gang, at Clumber, near Aratula.

Four days later Ms Greer’s maroon Holden Commodore was found abandoned nearby at Governor’s Chair Lookout with her personal belongings inside.

Police exhausted all avenues in an extensive search of mountainous bushland in an area south of Moogerah Dam, near Boonah, before calling off further searches in June.

Ms Greer’s father, Philip, has asked the public to recall any information that may help police in an effort to renew the

3 sick from heat as mercury hits 39.2C THREE people were treated for heat-related illnesses yesterday as the temperature soared to 39.2 degrees at Amberley.

The patients included a 15-year-old girl who fainted, a 55-year-old man suffering heat stroke, and an 86-year-old woman who was dehydrated.

Ipswich pools were busy.

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Obesity is a bone of contention IPSWICH dogs and cats are battling the bulge, just as much as their owners it seems.

Obesity is the city’s leading pet health problem, according to Redbank Plains vet Dr Rishi Shah, who says 41% of dogs and 32% of cats – on average – are seriously overweight and in need of a trim-down.

Kiri ten Dolle investigation. He said the past year hadn’t been easy for his family, including Ms Greer’s 13-year-old daughter, who suspected Tina was a victim of foul play.

“It’s been a bit hectic just not knowing what’s happened to her,” Mr Greer said.

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Mr Greer said he was reminded every day of his daughter, who would have celebrated her 34th birthday this Australia Day. “There are things you see, then I think, ‘I won’t be able to do that with my daughter again’,” he told The QT.

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FRIENDS, family and neighbours embraced the opportunity to raise funds for vision-impaired teen Brendan Young at a Grandchester event yesterday.

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It is one of nine weekend-long closures planned for the Ipswich line until August.

The closure coincides with the inaugural Australia Day race meet at the Ipswich Turf Club.

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Burglary leads to brainwave AN ATTEMPTED burglary at their home led an Ipswich couple to develop a duress alert application for smartphones.

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SHATTERED: Mary Beck has been ordered to remove trinkets from her daughter’s grave at Warrill Park Lawn Cemetery.

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IPSWICH families have been given 21 days to remove trinkets from the graves of their loved ones buried at Warrill Park Lawn Cemetery – because of “workplace health and safety” concerns.

Ipswich Cemeteries, which took lease of the Willowbank grounds from Ipswich City Council last June, has left letters on each of the graves in the nursery section asking families to remove all ornaments other than two standard vases as they “hindered maintenance” and posed a “safety hazard for visitors and staff”.

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Miracle mum on a mission AN Ipswich mum who was diagnosed with an “incurable” form of cancer on Mother’s Day in 2008 has miraculously been given the all-clear.

Anne Jonker has now made it her mission to increase awareness of gynaecological cancers among women.

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AN IPSWICH teenager remained in a serious but stable condition after he was hit by a car early yesterday morning.

Police are continuing their investigations into the accident, with the Forensic Crash Unit remaining at the scene gathering evidence at Bundamba late into the morning.

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A TRIPLE zero operator just two weeks into her new job talked an Ipswich mum through the labour and birth of her baby son – all in 15 minutes flat.

Lynda Sika was in bed asleep when she woke to almighty contractions about 6.40 on Wednesday night, just after her partner popped out to watch the State of Origin decider.

Within a quarter of an hour little Benji was born at home,

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COUNCILLOR David Pahlke is fed up with the numerous Telstra pits in a state of disrepair in the Rosewood region.

Cr Pahlke has continually drawn Telstra’s attention to the problem but is not satisfied with the response.

“They have been left forlorn and forgotten,” he said.

LIGHTNING BOY BENJI: Lynda Sika gives her new baby Benji a kiss at the Ipswich Hospital yesterday. five days earlier than the Sadliers Crossing family expected.

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Transpacific wants the group to be made up of representatives of residents, community groups, schools, the State Government, the council and the company.

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Mum, 32, has just weeks to live but her three boys are all she is thinking of A YOUNG Ipswich mum is facing up to the terrible task of saying goodbye to her three young sons and husband after she was given just weeks to live.

Jo Goldstein, 32, was first diagnosed with small cell carcinoma, an aggressive cancer common among the elderly and acute smokers, in September 2011 – just weeks after giving birth to her son Archie, 18 months.

But last month her family’s world was turned upside down when Jo was told she would have only eight more weeks left to live.

“I feel so normal but eventually my body will just start shutting down,” she told The QT. “Everyone’s trying to get out of me what I want to do, but at 30 you don’t have a bucket list.”

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the RAAF at Amberley, said by the time Jo was diagnosed the cancer had already spread to other organs and metastasised.

“After Archie was born, the swelling in her stomach hadn’t reduced and a scan found a tumour on her colon. Her liver was three times its normal size, which doctors confused with the baby’s head while she was pregnant,” Dean said.

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A LIST of LNP State Government cuts to Queensland Rail has revealed that 21 Ipswich rail workers have lost their jobs.

Bundamba MP Jo-Ann Miller warned the LNP was “hell bent on the privatisation of the passenger rail service”.

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Property market set for lift-off

Kiri ten Dolle those numbers to “quadruple” within the next six weeks as people swapped their old analog boxes for digital options.

“We’re getting about 100 to 150 per day,” he said.

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QR lay-offs in Ipswich confirmed

HOUSE sales are expected to surge this year, marking a recovery in the Ipswich real estate market.

Experts have also tipped average property prices to increase by up to 5% in 2013.

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THE SWITCH: Riverview Recycling and Refuse Centre supervisor Paul Schonhagen with only a couple of days worth of old televisions.

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UP TO 150 televisions are being dumped each day as Ipswich prepares to make the switch from analog to digital reception next month.

Riverview Recycling and Refuse Centre has been inundated with a record number of TVs, many in working order, in the lead-up to the digital switchover on May 28.

Dump supervisor Paul Schonhagen said he expected

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