Charity match

POLICE officers from Roma and Gatton will take part in a Gold Coast football match today to support the Brett Forte Remembrance Fund. The Queensland Police Rugby League Association will host the match at the Carina Junior Rugby League Football Club and is open to the public.

Gates and matches start from 1.30pm, with the main game to kick-off at 5pm.

It will see the QPS Dream Team take on the QPS All Stars with a line-up to include Scott Prince, Petero Civoniceva and Dane Carlaw. Sporting memorabilia will be auctioned and raffles, with all proceeds to go towards the fund. Entry to the match is free.

A TRACTOR parked in a machinery sales yard was destroyed by fire yesterday. Emergency services were called to the Chesterfield Australia machinery yard at the corner of Boundary Rd and the Leichhardt Hwy at Goondiwindi shortly before 6am. The initial call reported

other tractors in the machinery yard were under threat with concerns about the extent of the fire. Queensland Ambulance paramedics were put on standby at the property’s boundaries where smoke and the incident caused delays in the immediate area. Queensland Fire and Emergency Services attacked the blaze with two firefighters in breathing apparatus tackling the fire inside the premises.

QFES reported the fire was contained to one tractor and others were not under threat when they arrived on scene. Crews had extinguished the fire and left the scene about 6.30am.

A MAN was taken to hospital after suffering an electric shock in Toowoomba City Thursday night.

The man, aged in his 40s, received the shock “cutting a line” on Campbell and Ruthven Sts about 11.10pm. Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics transported the man to Toowoomba Hospital in a stable condition.