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Your FREE local newspaper! Issue 13th August 2026 #290 Covering Southern Downs, Read online! townandcountryjournal.com.au Granite Belt & Tenterfield Shire TV Guide inside! p.28 Puzzles on page 25 Weather outlook p.6 p.15 p.27 p.33 Warwick's Billy Benz's... More

Your FREE local newspaper! Issue 13th August 2026 #290 Covering Southern Downs, Read online! townandcountryjournal.com.au Granite Belt & Tenterfield Shire TV Guide inside! p.28 Puzzles on page 25 Weather outlook p.6 p.15 p.27 p.33 Warwick's Billy Benz's Leyburn Sprints this weekend Where are the fish biting? success. Brave response saves lives in Stanthorpe Selina Venier the 80 year-old neighbour, who’s stoically refusing any media attention, for his " brave actions." Gobsmacked" was the way The neighbour in question was said to Presbyterian Reverend Peter Evans dismiss attention from The Border Post described the help received to res- and Channel 7 while the rescuer approx- cue five children when their home imately half his age, remains unidenti- on Leslie Parade in Stanthorpe caught fied. fire internally on August 5. Rev. Evans said he will consider asking The residence, owned by the police to "discharge the body-cam foot- Presbyterian church beside it but rented age" so the man can Less