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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 ...

  • Market close shares fall as US China in focus - GPG WBC NZOG drop

    New Zealand shares fell as the prospect of a winding down of US stimulus and weak Chinese manufacturing weighed on equity markets across Asia. Guinness Peat Group dropped after signalling a delay in its transformation strategy. Westpac Banking Corp led lenders and insurers lower. The NZX 50 Index fell 21.122 points, or 0.5 percent, to 4589.059. Within the index, 37 stocks fell, eight rose ...

  • New Zealands meat export to China to be resumed after document failure

    New Zealand meat exports that have been held up on Chinese wharves because of a name change on the export documents will be allowed to enter the Chinese market from next week, the New Zealand government announced Thursday.Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy said the Chinese authorities had agreed to begin releasing consignments under the name of the New Zealand Food Safety ...

  • Restoration group questions ChristChurch Cathedral vote numbers

    video A month-long submission process by the Anglican Church shows the majority of survey respondents want a new, contemporary ChristChurch Cathedral to replace the quake-damaged one - but not everyone is convinced by the results. More than 3,700 people had their say on proposed design options to the cathedral, and more than half of them opted for a contemporary rebuild. But the Restore ...

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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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  • TradeMe learns lessons from bogus bidding case

    TradeMe says it has learnt a lot about bogus bidding after the conviction of a car dealer who was manipulating auctions on an "industrial scale". Auckland car dealer The Auto Co (Millennium) Ltd has been fined $42,000 for what TradeMe said was its biggest ever episode of fake bidding. The car dealership pleaded guilty to 13 charges under the Fair Trading Act and has already had ...

  • Van crashes through roof in Christchurch

    Residents of a house in Lyttelton in Christchurch had a lucky escape this afternoon when a contractor's van crashed through their roof. The van started rolling backwards down Ticehurst Terrace and was airborne before crashing. The van is now embedded into the kitchen of the house, with the impact sending debris flying onto the property next door. While there were occupants in the ...

  • Farmy Army leader honoured for quake aid

    Prime Minister John Key helps out the Farmy Army volunteers, at Linwood College, following the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in March 2011. Photo / File The driving force behind Christchurch's 'Farmy Army' says providing help and hot meals in the earthquake-struck city was a humbling experience. John Hartnell was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit today for ...

  • Affordable homes on the way for Bay

    Tauranga community housing trust chairwoman Chris Johnstone talks about the budget announcement that state homes may be able to be run by private providers. Photo / APN A $1.7 million Government grant will provide more affordable housing for some of Tauranga's most vulnerable people. The grant has been made to Tauranga Community Housing Trust and will be used to build new units ...

  • Company fined after 120k of fake bidding

    If you list an item on an online auction site with a reserve of one dollar, you have to be prepared to sell it for a dollar.That's the advice of the Commerce Commission after an Auckland car company was fined $42,000 for placing 7500 fake bids on its own items to raise the price.The Auto Co was banned from auction site Trade Me in July 2012 after the company noticed employees had set up ...

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