After almost 1,000 days Brisbane’s ‘Rail Fail’, which resulted in reduced services forcing commuters onto interim timetables, is almost finally over.

State Transport Minister Mark Bailey has announced normal weekday timetables will resume on Monday the 29th of July with an extra 200,000 seats on the network.

It was supposed to have all be sorted by the end of last year but Robert Dow from rail lobby group Rail Back On Track tells Mark it is better late than never.

New data shows 53 per cent of young Australians have been victims of cyberbullying.

The research also establishes that many go on to suffer high and very high rates of psychological distress as a result.

Many young people are loath to let anyone know and Headspace CEO Jason Trethowan tells Mark there are things that parents can do to identify the problem and help.

Ash Barty’s rise to the No.1 world ranking in women’s tennis is nothing short of a fairytale.

Just three years ago the Ipswich born Barty was ranked 623rd in the world and now, with three wins this year including a Grand Slam, she joins the elite club of just five Aussie tennis stars to achieve No.1 status.

Tennis Queensland president Mark Blomfield tells Mark it’s been amazing to watch Ash go from strength to strength and he believes her success will inspire a new generation of young girls.

A rare treat for skygazers across southeast Queensland at the weekend with three large meteors entering the atmosphere and putting on a light show.

What made it particularly special is that the meteors were not part of a meteor shower.

Julie Straayer from the South East Queensland Astronomical society was lucky to witness the first and explains to Mark that it was probably pretty large.

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It’s been 10 years since Aussie rock outlaw Tex Perkins inhabited the music and skin of Johnny Cash, a show that won widespread critical acclaim and earned him a Helpmann Award.

In October he’ll reprise the role in a 10th anniversary performance at QPAC in The Man In Black.

Tex tells Mark he’s had an affinity with Johnny Cash right from the start of his own storied music career and 10 years on he’s even better now.

Pensioner groups have the Morrison Government squarely in their sights demanding that the deeming rate finally be dropped after four long years.

When applying the income test to pensions the Commonwealth deems that any savings over $51,200 are earning 3.25 per cent, never mind that there’s not a bank in the country that offers such generous returns.

National Seniors chief advocate Ian Henschke tells Mark it is time the deeming rate was set independent of politicians.

When most people think of the Red Cross they think of the blood bank and its work during natural disasters, but it’s also there for elderly and isolated Australians.

Each day an army of volunteers pick up the phone to call and check on those living alone and new data shows the service made more than 1.1 million calls last year.

Red Cross Queensland director Garry Page tells Mark that increasingly the service is finding people want to have a longer chat and volunteers are only happy to lend a friendly ear.

If anyone would like to sign up for the service they can call on 1300 885 698 or go to redcross.org.au

A play will open at the Powerhouse in Brisbane in August which is set in a legendary wizarding school that can’t be named here.

It’s a comedy called PUFFS or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic

It tells the story of a lovable group of misfits who attend that famous school.

Two of the cast, Angelina Thomson and James Bryers, joined Mark in the studio and had to choose their words carefully.

One in six families in Australia are single parent families and all too often many forgo taking overseas holidays because of the logistics and stress.

It doesn’t need to be that hard though.

Wietske Hattingh from Journeys Worldwide tells Mark there is help at hand with great affordable packages and tour groups that cater especially to single parent families.