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  • Botham confident about Anderson surpassing him as Englands leading Test wicket-taker

    English legend Sir Ian Botham has said that he is confident that James Anderson will surpass him as England's leading Test wicket-taker after the fast bowler took three more Test wickets against New Zealand to reach 301, 82 short of Botham's England record. Welcoming the Lancashire player to the exclusive 300 club, Botham said that he had told Anderson that his next target should be 384, then ...

  • Green Party launches the Kiwi Bid to protect our beaches

    Today in Piha the Green Party launched a major campaign to stop the Government's planned expansion of risky deep sea drilling, including offering New Zealanders the opportunity to join a counter bid to protect our oceans and beaches. On May 24th the Government begins the non-financial tender process with oil companies for new permits to conduct deep sea drilling in New Zealand waters ...

  • High hopes for Meridian sale

    Deputy Prime Minister Bill English. Photo / Greg Bowker The Finance Minister has high hopes New Zealanders will buy into the partial float of Meridian Energy. Bill English has confirmed it is the next asset in line for a sell-down, but he says even after the float, 85 per cent of the company should remain in New Zealand hands. The figure includes the minimum of 51 per cent of ...

  • Latest WINZ privacy breach preventable says Labour

    Jacinda Ardern. Photo / File Labour says Government inaction over privacy breaches could lie behind the mistaken release from Work and Income. Details of 34 beneficiaries, who are about to be cut off from the system, have been mistakenly emailed to another claimant. Labour's social development spokeswoman Jacinda Ardern says a full investigation of WINZ processes should have ...

  • Precious penguins needing better protection

    An environmental group says the precious small colony of yellow-eyed penguins in the Otago Peninsula urgently needs better protection. The concern follows the release of BirdLife International's review, which has found set nets kill more than 400,000 seabirds every year. Forest and Bird says the current four kilometre-wide set net ban around the peninsula's coast needs to be 150 ...

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Drive

Drive

Drive, which won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director prize at Cannes last spring, is a sharply etched, finely tuned homage to the existential road movies of the 1970s like Vanishing Point (1970) and Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in which the nature of human existence was fuse ... ...

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  • Concern for missing Pukekohe woman

    Police are worried about the whereabouts of a woman from Pukekohe, in rural south Auckland, who has gone missing almost 100 kilometres from home. Ngaire Gibbons was spotted in Puhoi, on the northern edge of the region, yesterday afternoon, and police believe she thumbed a lift there. She is 63, Maori, and about five feet three inches tall (one metre 60 centimetres) with a plump build and grey ...

  • Anderson tears through New Zealand

    James Anderson completed a five-wicket haul as England dominated the morning of day three of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.Resuming on 4-154, the visitors added just 53 runs to their overnight total as they were bowled out for 207.The breakthrough came almost immediately for the hosts, as in just the second bowl of the day Brendon McCullum edged a Stuart Broad delivery to ...

  • Wider set net ban needed to save yellow-eyed penguins

    Forest & Bird is calling for an immediate extension to a ban on commercial and recreational set-netting around Otago Peninsula, following the release of a major new international review that has found that set nets kill more than 400,000 seabirds around the world every year. The results of the review, undertaken by conservation group BirdLife International, have been published in the ...

  • Lotto Brings Smiles to Three Players

    There'll be smiles all round this weekend for three Lotto players in Howick, Manurewa and Lower Hutt after each winning a $333,333 share of Lotto First Division.The winning tickets were sold at Sunny Dairy Superette in Howick, Countdown Manurewa in Manurewa and New World Stokes Valley in Lower Hutt.Powerball was not struck this evening and has jackpotted to $7 million.Strike Four was ...

  • Final Tauranga drought feed shipments unpacked

    Federated Farmers Grain & Seed has completed its final drought feed shipment into the Port of Tauranga, with containers being unpacked last Thursday for delivery in coming days. In all, some 100,000 small bale equivalents have been delivered via the Port of Tauranga."The entire drought feed operation has become the 'Farmy Army Navy', given the mix of farmers and ...

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