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  • Light session for All Blacks at camp

    It was all indoors and mostly non-physical on the opening day of the first All Blacks wider training group camp in Mt Maunganui today. With the Highlanders in South Africa and the Crusaders and Blues exempted from the gym work, having played the previous night, it was all fairly low key as the All Blacks selectors went over game plans with players for next month's three-test series ...

  • Help me bring my boy home

    . "All I want to do is pick that little boy up and take him out of that shithole and pop him next to his granddad so we can go and see him every day . . . give him a Christian burial. "What do I do? Put it in my will to be buried at Pike River, so I am buried next to my son, my only son . . . the only son I will ever have?" Joseph died just one day after his 17th ...

  • About-face means more choc in block

    Cadbury has fired the latest salvo in the Kiwi chocolate wars, backtracking on an earlier decision to cut the size of their family range of chocolate blocks. Tomorrow the company will unveil a new-look chocolate block that is 10 per cent bigger and features larger, rounder pieces. The 200g block will be increased to 220g for the same price. Managing director Alastair de Raadt said ...

  • Earthquake rattles the south

    A shallow earthquake has struck west of Te Anau in the deep south. Centred 25km from Te Anau, at 8.22pm GeoNet reports the 4.3 magnitude quake hit at a depth of 5km. It was believed to have been widely felt in the deep ...

  • Man dead woman wounded in Northland shooting

    A 38-year-old man will appear in the Kaitaia District Court tomorrow charged with murder. A 44-year-old man was killed and a 38-year-old woman critically injured after a shooting in Fairburn, just east of Kaitaia, this morning. Police have a team of 22 officers investigating "a serious incident involving a firearm" that occurred in the rural location. The man was found ...

Movie Review

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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  • Auckland housing intensification haphazard

    Rethink the plan or rethink the council. This was the unanimous message from 500 Aucklanders gathered tonight at Takapuna Grammar School to discuss Auckland Council’s intensification plans. The meeting was organised by resident-led group Auckland 2040 whose goal was to encourage 50,000 people to give feedback to the council on what they believed was a "haphazard, ...

  • Australia set to return paedophile to NZ

    A paedophile who took photos of his children's friends as they played together looks set to be returned to New Zealand from Australia. Jeffrey Chadwick is the latest in a string of potentially-dangerous criminals who will have their residency status revoked across the Tasman after finishing jail terms. The spotlight is on public access to criminal histories after the murder of ...

  • Highlanders season of woes continues

    The Highlanders awful season continued with a 35-18 loss to the Bulls in Pretoria this morning. Down 23-6 at halftime, the Highlanders lacked any sort of penetration against a Bulls team which is unbeaten at Loftus Versfeld this season. The Highlanders spent 20 minutes of the second half down to 14 men because of yellow cards and twice had to resort to non-contested scrums after ...

  • NZ close to Taiwan free trade agreement

    New Zealand is poised to sign its first free trade agreement in more than three years, with an announcement of a deal with Taiwan expected in the coming months. Sources say negotiations have been progressing smoothly and the most complicated issues, including the vexed issue of Taiwan's complicated relationship with mainland China, are already largely resolved. Assuming it is ...

  • Cash taken in night bar robbery

    A man armed with a rifle robbed a Hastings bar last night, striking an employee with the firearm before fleeing. The male confronted two staff members at the Horse & Hound Bar & Cafe on Karamu Rd at about 10pm. Detective Sergeant Craig Vining said the man demanded cash, but despite the staff complying completely with his directions one was struck with the rifle. "We ...

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