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  • Botham confident about Anderson surpassing him as Englands leading Test wicket-taker

    English legend Sir Ian Botham has said that he is confident that James Anderson will surpass him as England's leading Test wicket-taker after the fast bowler took three more Test wickets against New Zealand to reach 301, 82 short of Botham's England record. Welcoming the Lancashire player to the exclusive 300 club, Botham said that he had told Anderson that his next target should be 384, then ...

  • Drinks break blast spurred Southee burst

    If not for some stern words from the leadership pair of Brendon McCullum and Kane Willamson during the final drinks break on Saturday, New Zealand might have found it hard to stop England from marching away with a massive lead. That was the ...

  • Rachel Hunter returns to New Zealands Got Talent

    Source: ONE News Rachel Hunter has been named as the third judge for the fresh season of New Zealand's Got Talent 2013. The international supermodel will join Op Shop frontman Jason Kerrison and choreographer and creative director Cris Judd in the three-person judging panel when filming starts in July. "I'm so pleased that a second series of New Zealand's Got Talent has ...

  • Mini-meteorite lands in Bay of Plenty garage

    Source: Fairfax Bay of Plenty man Lloyd Ganley was standing outside his garage having a chat to his neighbour when "old E T came to visit". He was almost hit in the head by an ancient meteorite that whistled past him, sailed through the open roller door of the garage, and smashed into some buckets. "It was like, 'What the fwas that?' " Ganley said yesterday ...

  • England v New Zealand report Joe Root grows in stature to sow seeds of revival

    England 232 & 180-6 v New Zealand 207: Yorkshire batsman brings England back into the first Test with gutsy innings but late flurry of wickets also offers Kiwis hope of victory, writes Stephen Brenkley at ...

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Drive

Drive

Drive, which won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director prize at Cannes last spring, is a sharply etched, finely tuned homage to the existential road movies of the 1970s like Vanishing Point (1970) and Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in which the nature of human existence was fuse ... ...

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  • Police probe over jail stabbing

    Police are investigating after an inmate was stabbed at Auckland Prison and taken to hospital.The serious incident between two prisoners happened on Tuesday morning at the prison in Paremoremo, Auckland Prison manager Thomas Sherlock said.One prisoner was taken to hospital for treatment, he said in a statement.Corrections officers responded immediately and contained the incident. No staff were ...

  • Southee leads late New Zealand fightback

    Black Caps off to slow start with bat Tim Southee claimed three late wickets as the Black Caps reduced England to 180 for six on a dramatic third day of the first Test at Lord's today. A patient third-wicket partnership of 123 between Joe Root and Jonathan Trott looked to have put England in control of the match but the touring side grabbed four wickets for 12 runs in the final ...

  • Kerre McIvor Budget leaves police out in cold

    I love this initiative - micro-financing has worked wonderfully well for the most part in the developing world and I see no reason it shouldn't work just as well here. And then there was the facing reality, pragmatic face of National with its urgent legislation to cut through council inertia and time-wasting red tape to free up land for housing developments. There was also the ...

  • You know you did it

    Tracy Hibberd and her son, Isaac, 6. Photo / Doug Sherring Convicted fraudster Tracy Hibberd hopes to clear her name and complete the diploma she was found guilty of faking. Hibberd, 35, was sentenced to eight months' home detention on Thursday, having already spent about 10 weeks on remand. A jury found she faked a diploma and other documents purporting to show she had earned an early ...

  • Armys ammo goes AWOL

    Over the past four years, more than $330,000 worth of military equipment has been stolen. Photo / Getty Images Weapons and military equipment worth more than $330,000 have been stolen over four years from the Defence Force. The stolen items include mines, grenades, a dozen Kevlar helmets, 11 sets of body armour, gun accessories and two sets of night-vision goggles, valued at $6,647 and $8,000. ...

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