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  • Alliance changes affect 40 jobs

    About 40 jobs will be affected when Alliance Group completes the consolidation of its southern rendering operations this year. The company expects to have shifted its Makarewa, Mataura and old Lorneville rendering operations to a new $25 million rendering plant at Lorneville, near Invercargill, by November. Alliance Group chief executive Grant Cuff said the changes would improve ...

  • Warder bashed at Waikeria Prison

    A Waikeria Prison officer has reportedly escaped serious injury after allegedly being bashed with a phone by an inmate. But last night management would only confirm an "incident" took place. Waikeria Prison manager Kevin Smith said two corrections officers were involved in an incident with a prisoner yesterday but did not require hospital treatment. Smith said the matter ...

  • Partygoers turn on cop after noise complaint

    Four people were arrested after an alleged assault on a police officer attending a noise complaint at a Gisborne house party. Both bottles and kicking were believed to have been involved in an incident about 11.30pm on Saturday, which a Police Association spokesman says illustrates a "continuing problem" faced by officers on the beat. While police and the union were scant on ...

  • SkyCity snaps up casino as part of Queenstown expansion

    The SkyCity Entertainment Group has bought the operating licence for Queenstown's waterfront Wharf Casino for $5 million, but is waiting for clearance from the Commerce Commission and Gambling Commission before taking over. The SkyCity group bought the licence from Otago Casinos Ltd on Friday. SkyCity chief executive Nigel Morrison said the group was very pleased to acquire the ...

  • Heat on husbands to learn how to broaden culinary capabilities

    Meat and three veg is no longer cutting it in the kitchen for a group of Southland women who have sent their husbands to cooking lessons. A dozen men have donned aprons to improve their culinary skills under the tuition of chef and Southland Boys' High School catering and hospitality teacher Scott Richardson. The classes were the brainchild of Nicola Smith, the managing director ...

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The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man

Another week, another remake of a '70s cult horror favorite, except this time the new spin is coming not from another music video veteran trying to break into feature films, but from playwright / indie auteur / bitter misanthrope Neil LaBute, who has taken Robin Hardy's The Wicker Ma ... ...

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  • Sir Mark Todd comes home for fathers funeral

    PRINCELY HONOUR: Mark Todd after receiving his Knighthood for services to Equestrian Sport from the Prince of Wales following an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham ...

  • Farmer aims to fight for title again

    Otago-Southland ANZ Young Farmer of the Year Dean Rabbidge is "naturally disappointed" to have missed out on the national title but plans to give it "another good crack" next year. The 27-year-old, who farms 180 dairy cows in Glenham, near Wyndham, won the regional competition in March and headed to Auckland to compete for the champion title at the weekend. He placed ...

  • Over-40s deterred from rebuild

    Slashing student allowances for over-40s could discourage older Cantabrians keen to retrain for the post-earthquake rebuild, Labour says. From January, allowance eligibility for those aged 40 and over will be reduced from 200 weeks to 120 weeks. The three years would be cumulative, meaning any past allowances paid would be deducted from the weeks available. Labour tertiary ...

  • School trustees to receive $14.5m training boost

    Boards of trustees at the most isolated schools will finally be given training after a much-needed $14.5 million increase over four years in funding. The advocate of about 18,000 trustees has welcomed the 2013 Budget's inclusion of an extra $3.6 million to be invested in supporting school boards each year. It comes after a book released last year claimed boards spent a "mucky ...

  • Early flyers can kip at airport

    Tourists awaiting connecting flights wait in a smokers' shelter at Christchurch Airport after being kicked out of the international ...

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