Huge crowds for Hampton Food and Arts Festival
Hundreds descended on the high valleys of Hampton to indulge in local produce, listen to live music and soak in the sunshine. View the pictures here.
Toowoomba
Don't miss out on the headlines from Toowoomba. Followed categories will be added to My News.
Local produce, businesses and support were the key aspects to this year’s Hampton Food and Arts Festival.
Festival co-ordinator Wendy Allen said the weather held up for the rescheduled festival, after soaking rain washed out its original date.
“It was a gorgeous day in the high country at Hampton,” she said.
“We had to postpone (the first festival), it was so wet and soggy, we couldn’t even get trucks in so it was a very good decision made early in the week.
“It’s proved the best thing because its beautiful weather now.
“We’ve had dry weather leading up to it, which meant the ground has been fine.”
Ms Allen said the festival was a great opportunity for the district to come together and celebrate.
“For the Hampton community, this is a great celebration of this region,” she said.
“For the whole high country region, it’s a great celebration of all that is here, and its quite different from the rest of the Darling Downs.
“It’s a great abundance and variety of produce and the value added produce from the local growers.”
More Coverage
Grim search for missing mum narrows to tiny town
Police are now focusing on a town of just 400 people amid “grave fears” for a missing mum, who lost contact with family just before her 29th birthday. LATEST.
Cheaper to help homeless than do nothing, report finds
The government would save half a million dollars per person, every decade, if it funded “supported’’ accommodation for the homeless a damning new report released says.
‘Sweeping views’: Work starts on luxury Toowoomba CBD units
Ground has been broken on a six-storey luxury residential tower on the edge of the Toowoomba CBD, which the developers promise will include features “never been offered before” in the Garden City.
Ticket giveaway: Score double pass to Broncos NRL trial game
Want to win one of five double passes to the Broncos and Titans trial match on Sunday? Here’s what you need to do to be in the running.
From table hand to death row: I interview women serial killers
Sitting in a cold grey interview room on death row, across from some of the United States’ most prolific women serial killers, former Queensland criminologist Dr Kathryn Whiteley wants to know what leads them to crime.
History set to made at Empire Theatre with Jane Austen classic
It has been fuel for dozens of movie adaptations, countless miniseries, fan fictions and plays, and now Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice is coming to the Empire Theatre.