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Week commencing Thursday, 23 February | 2017 | Edition 864
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Re-zoning plan concerns
Action group forms
Regency’s next stage
Buskers duel
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Get in for your chop A cut above: The 2017 Killarney Show is on from tomorrow through to Sunday - head out to 'The Scenic Gem of the Downs' for a weekend of all things country, including the legendary woodchop, where action starts from 9am on Saturday. See pages 6 and 12 for more.
School cop call By Jeremy Sollars A call has been made for a school-based police officer to be assigned to Warwick State High School following a spate of violent incidents which left at least one student hospitalised - and assaults directly on teachers by students. As reported last week in the Free Times, police and paramedics were
called to the high school on Monday 13 February after a 16-year-old male student was violently assaulted in the school grounds by a 17-year-old male assailant, causing a tooth to protrude through the victim’s lip. The victim and his parents made a formal complaint to police after the 16-year-old was punched repeatedly in
the face and mouth by the suspect, with at least three other similar fights in the school ground in preceding weeks, including at least one girl-on-girl brawl. The Department of Education refused to release details, citing “privacy” concerns for those involved. But a local Department of Education source, who asked to not be identi-
fied, has told the Free Times that many staff were “advocating” for a police officer to be based permanently at the school, as is the case with dozens of other major regional high schools around Queensland. The source said several Warwick State High School teachers had been assaulted by students in recent years
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