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  • Kiwi keeper Watling ruled out of Headingley Test with knee injury

    New Zealand wicketkeeper BJ Watling has been ruled out of the second and final Test against England at Headingley starting from Friday because of a knee injury. Watling injured his knee during New Zealand's 170-run first Test defeat at Lord's last week, News.com.au reports. Following Watling's injury, Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum, who deputised behind the stumps at Lord's, will keep at ...

  • Kiwis warn starry-eyed Root not to get carried away by adulation and familiarity at debut Headingley Test

    Upcoming England batsman Joe Root has been warned to expect a fiery attack by the New Zealand side in the middle as they look to ruin his first homecoming at Headingley. Although Root is out to etch his name into Yorkshire cricketing folklore on his debut Test, however, Kiwi pace bowler Neil Wagner is of the opinion that all the adulation and familiarity of home could backfire on the youngster ...

  • Clever Kiwis vie for export awards

    Thursday, 23 May 2013, 4:55 pm Press Release: Employers And Manufacturers Association Media statement Thursday, May 23, 2013Clever Kiwis vie for export awardsNew Zealand designers and suppliers of jewellery, yacht masts and aeroplane safety checks are doing such good business on distant shores; they are among finalists in the Air New Zealand Cargo ExportNZ Auckland Awards 2013.Entries in ...

  • QEII Site Update - No Asbestos Risk At Track

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  • One week to feedback on draft Unitary Plan

    Aucklanders have one week to feedback on the draft Auckland Unitary Plan and Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse is urging people to make sure they have had their say."We are undertaking the largest planning process in New Zealand's history, creating a rulebook that will guide Auckland and how it grows over the next 30 years. "I never expected anything less than robust debate and ...

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The Dark Knight Rises

Shrouded in both astronomical fan expectations and unexpected real-world tragedy, Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final entry in his acclaimed Batman trilogy, is nothing if not grandly ambitious, the filmmakers bold, sometimes unwieldy stateme ... ...

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  • Dominion Finance boss jailed

    Dominion Finance boss Paul Cropp has been sentenced to two years and seven months imprisonment. Justice Graham Lang delivered the sentence at Auckland High Court late this afternoon. Cropp, who turned 50 yesterday, ...

  • NZ meat cleared across Chinese wharves ministry chided for mistake

    New Zealand meat has been cleared to move across Chinese wharves as soon as next week though the administrative logjam has been sheeted home to the Ministry for Primary Industries. Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy announced the breakthrough while chiding his department for submitting paperwork in a format that hadn't yet been approved by China's General Administration of ...

  • Kiwi at 8-month low after Chinese manufacturing slows Bernanke says watch data

    The New Zealand dollar fell to an eight-month low after figures indicated Chinese manufacturing shrank this month and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke told politicians quantitative easing could be tapered off if the world's biggest economy keeps getting better. The kiwi fell as low as 80.15 US cents, trading at 80.26 cents at 5pm in Wellington from 80.69 cents at 8am, tumbling from ...

  • Dealer fined $42000 over fake Trade Me bids

    Source: ONE News Auckland car dealer The Auto Co (Millennium) Ltd has been fined $42,000 for what TradeMe says is the biggest ever episode of fake bidding on the site. The car dealership pleaded guilty to 13 charges under the Fair Trading Act and has already had to pay more than $122,000 in compensation to affected customers. TradeMe says the company made more than 7000 fake bids on up to ...

  • Man sentenced for indecent assault after giving 12-year-old girl synthetic cannabis

    File photo / Sarah Ivey A 43-year-old man who gave a 12-year-old girl synthetic cannabis and put his hand up her skirt when she passed out avoided being sent to jail today. The judge hit out against legal highs during sentencing, they were filling up her courtroom and causing widespread social problems. Long-time cannabis and synthetic user Kirk Daniel Rutledge, 42, had smoked the ...

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