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  • Duo plead not guilty to murdering Indian in New Zealand

    Two men accused of murdering an Indian-origin man in New Zealand in January have pleaded not guilty and are now headed for trial. Bryne Pelmar, 20, and Shivneel Shahil Kumar, 18, have been charged with burning alive 21-year-old Shalvin Prasad Jan 30 in south Auckland. The two appeared in the Auckland High Court Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to the charge, media reports said. Both the ...

  • Hesson concerned over Vettoris career hampering Achilles tendon problem

    New Zealand coach Mike Hesson has admitted concern over injured veteran Daniel Vettori and said there were some serious medical discussions to be had over his future. Vettori was a huge asset in the UK during the ICC Champions Trophy but struggled through with an Achilles tendon problem that has hampered him for nearly a year, and raises concern over his international career, Stuff.co.nz ...

  • New Zealand Laboratories Win International Design Awards

    Specialist laboratory architects, Lab-works Architecture have been recognised overnight at the S-Lab Conference and Awards in Liverpool, England. With two of their recent science facilities making the short list for the International Laboratory Buildings category, it is a laboratory refurbishment project at Scion in Rotorua that has won the award. While the new laboratory fit-out in the ...

  • Waikato DHB Celebrates Boom in Immigrant Volunteers

    Thursday, 20 June 2013, 12:41 pm Press Release: Waikato District Health Board Thursday 20 June Waikato DHB Celebrates Boom in Immigrant VolunteersAs Waikato DHB celebrates its ...

  • Residents Rate Council Service Highly

    The vast majority of South Taranaki residents are happy with the service council provides according to an independent survey.The National Research Bureau (NRB) telephone poll of 403 residents across all five South Taranaki wards found that 91% of residents were happy with the overall service the Council provides, while 4% were not satisfied and 5% were unable to comment. Overall 74% of ...

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The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) [DVD]

The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) [DVD]

Ingmar Bergmans The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukllan) takes place at a historical crossroads between the decline of pagan worship and the spread of Christianity in medieval Sweden, and similarly the film itself stands at a crossroads in Bergmans career. Having achieved ci ... ...

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  • Enterprising Auckland students make ‘all star’ team

    Auckland has maintained its record for producing outstanding young entrepreneurs, contributing half of the six-person 'all star' team of Young Enterprise Scheme students selected to take part in the FedEx International Trade Challenge in August.The New Zealand team - which will take on eight Asia-Pacific countries' 48 representatives in Hong Kong - was named at the end of ...

  • Growing Concern For Missing Rawene Woman

    Thursday, 20 June 2013, 12:29 pm Press Release: New Zealand Police Growing Concern For Missing Rawene WomanWith a 32-year-old Rawene woman still missing after 12 days, Police are urging the public to come forward with any information that may help locate her.Barbara Ann Moka was last seen on Sunday June 9 and had attended a Tangi at the Te Piiti Marae, Omanaia (near Rawene). Barbara and ...

  • Appeal Trust grants $500000 to assist Cholmondel rebuild

    Cholmondeley Children's Centre is delighted to announce it has been granted $500,000 from the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trust towards rebuilding Cholmondeley.The original Cholmondeley Homestead, built in 1925, was terminally damaged in the February 22, 2011 earthquake and deconstructed in 2012."This significant donation from the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trust is a ...

  • Otago flood conditions update Thursday 20 June 2013 1000hrs

    Thursday 20 June 2013 1000hrs Heavy rain on the Taieri Plain 75mm at Riccarton Road in the past 24 hours - has caused further localised flooding. The Silver Stream reached 55 cumecs early this morning but did not reach the level of the Gordon Road spillway, and since has since been dropping. Dunedin has had 35 mm of rain. Some surface flooding has occurred in the Milton-Tokomairiro ...

  • Dunedin landslide causing major problems

    Raw footage: Early morning shots of Dunedin slip (0:16) Several properties in Dunedin had to be evacuated last night after bad weather caused two landslides. A major slip near Sawyers Bay has closed two roads today and caused a resident to be evacuated late last night. Dunedin City Council Roading Maintenance Engineer Peter Standring said that the slip occurred about 100 metres from the ...

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