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  • Auckland City get job done on Waitakere

    Auckland have won their third Oceania Champions League title in a row, after beating Waitakere United 2-1 at Mt Smart today. Two first-half goals in three minutes from Adam Dickinson and Alex Feneridis were to be enough for City, despite Waitakere pulling a goal back just before half-time. Waitakere' cause was not helped by the dismissal of defender Tim Myers. The result ...

  • China customs issue keeps NZ meat off shelves

    Chinese supermarkets are beginning to run out of New Zealand beef and lamb as Kiwi meat remains stuck at ports around China. Officials say they are working "around the clock" to resolve the issue but the Government is giving no timetable for when the stalled shipments will be cleared. It emerged on Friday that all meat exports to China have been blocked from entering the ...

  • Time for Palmy to let it go

    Ok Palmy, let's just get it over with. Let's put behind us the shame of John Cleese and his "thoroughly bloody miserable time", and the pride at Jeremy Clarkson's assertion that if God had got it right then "Jesus would have been from Palmerston North". Let's forget about Lord Palmerston, the man who gave you that great name and let's move ...

  • Students left to learn the hard way

    Postgraduate students are working long, minimum-wage hours, selling their cars and moving in with their parents to complete degrees, after losing $240 a week in student allowance. The Government's scrapping of the postgraduate student allowance at the beginning of the year has been reflected in falling domestic numbers at New Zealand universities. Before January, student ...

  • Catholic Church powerless in face of extreme fringe

    A radical group that sent emails to MPs saying they were "on the road to hell for all eternity" if they voted in favour of the Marriage Amendment Bill has been told to stop claiming to be Catholic - but the Catholic Church admits it has no power to enforce the ruling. The Catholic Bishops Conference has told the Catholic Action Group it doesn't have permission to use the ...

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Silent Running [DVD]

Some three decades after its unsuccessful theatrical release and later elevation to cult status, Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running is terribly dated, but still intriguing didactic science fiction. Taking place in the early years of the 21st century, it posits a time in which all plant life on earth has been destroyed, and the only remaining traces of vegetation are in carefully nurtured for ... ...

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  • Drug charge cop loved his job says loyal wife

    The wife of an Auckland policeman accused of drug dealing is defending her husband, saying there's "no way" he's involved with the notorious Head Hunters gang. In an exclusive interview, Diane Pakau, 33, said she knew her husband, Peter Pakau, "inside out", and the allegations against him were just that. "I know it's not the truth. There's ...

  • Warning on killer coming back to NZ

    A murderer whom authorities warn could kill again will be deported from Australia to New Zealand - but unless laws change here he is unlikely to be monitored. The spotlight is on public access to an individual's criminal history after the murder of Christchurch girl Jade Bayliss. The 13-year-old was strangled by her mother's former boyfriend, but the family did not know he ...

  • Family counts blessings after superbug scare

    Ad Feedback One of the most common bacterial triggers is group A streptococcus which lives in the nose, throat and on skin of healthy people but can develop into a strep-throat infection, rheumatic fever or necrotising fasciitis. "Sometimes it's from splits in the skin from athlete's foot or whatever, or something minor, a splinter or something too small to see ...

  • Trouble behind scenes for Bike New Zealand

    There are mounting concerns over New Zealand's second-highest funded sports organisation and prime Olympic investment, Bike New Zealand. Sunday Star-Times inquiries have found significant dissatisfaction in the cycling community at BikeNZ's performance, from the grassroots to Olympic level. Concerns range from complaints over basic administration problems, including ...

  • Sting busts more ghost-writers

    Ad Feedback The statement added that education institutions had mechanisms to counter such cheating, including spotting students whose submitted work appeared inconsistent with previous assignments, or with a tutor's perceptions of the student's general abilities. Last weekend the Star-Times revealed that three months ago a former "ghost writer" had sent ...

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