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  • Taylor better Test skipper than McCullum says New Zealand media

    The New Zealand media has said that the under the leadership of former captain Ross Taylor, the Black Caps Test team had been making significant progress than they are doing under current skipper Brendon McCullum. Six months after Taylor lost the captaincy, Stuff.co.nz reports that under Taylor, New Zealand enjoyed the first Test win in Australia after 25 years, and the first drawn test series ...

  • Time of death estimate in Lundy trial unreliable Privy Council hears

    The evidence a pathologist presented at Mark Lundy's trial on the time of death of his wife and daughter was "unreliable" and flawed", the Privy Council has heard. Lundy is appealing his life sentence with a non-parole period of 20 years for the killing of his wife Christine and daughter Amber, 7, in their Palmerston North home in August 2000. On the second day of a hearing ...

  • Porirua stabbing lifts tension with rival gangs

    The stabbing of a teenager in Porirua has ignited tensions between youths with rival gang associations. A 17-year-old was knocked unconscious and stabbed several times in the torso, arms and neck on Thursday night near the Waitangirua Mall. It is understood that he was assaulted because he was wearing a blue bandanna, the colour worn by the local Crips youth gang. Porirua is known ...

  • Test match just the ticket for scalpers

    Source: ONE News Ticket scalpers are cashing in on the sold-out All Blacks test match in New Plymouth this weekend. More than 23,000 tickets have been sold and those who missed out were now buying them on Trade Me, at four times the original cost. Yesterday, there were seven auctions on the site for tickets to the game. In one auction, $40 general admission tickets were selling for $175 each. ...

  • Aussies snap up our homes

    "One instead will need to take buyers out of the market which are not the ones we think deserve to buy affordable housing. "That means something like a law banning second property purchases, banning purchases by foreigners and forcing people to sell houses they own but are not occupying, perhaps because they are overseas." Judith Taylor, previously with property specialists ...

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Changing Lanes

The title of Changing Lanes comes from a crucial incident that takes place on the FDR expressway in New York: Two men, both of whom are desperate to get to the courthouse for different reasons, change lanes at the same time and crash into each other. One leaves behind the other, who finds that he is holding a crucial file folder that literally holds the first man's life in the balance. And ... ...

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  • Staffer coping well after bank siege

    Police said the man went into the bank with a grievance he wanted to bring to the attention of police. Photo / Sarah Ivey A bank staffer threatened with a gun during a five-hour siege at an Auckland bank returned to work yesterday and was coping well after her ordeal. The female Westpac employee, who is understood to be in a team leader's role, was at work at the Penrose branch on Monday ...

  • Lundy appeal Meal evidence misleading

    Mark Lundy. Photo / Mark Mitchell Professor Knight particularly questioned Dr Pang's evidence that "absence of gastric smell" was an important factor. He considered this to be "utterly without foundation and little short of ludicrous". Examining stomach contents to estimate the time of death for Christine and Amber Lundy is deemed "so unreliable as to be of little ...

  • Dunne goes into battle for extra funding

    Peter Dunne. Photo / Mark Mitchell United Future leader Peter Dunne will go into battle at the Electoral Commission today to try to persuade it to change its rules so he is not stripped of more than $185,000 a year in extra parliamentary funding for his party. Mr Dunne stands to lose about $186,325 a year in funding if the party cannot re-register quickly and the Speaker decides it no longer ...

  • Fierce weather on the way

    The temperature is expected to stay below 10C in Auckland on Friday when a cold southerly sweepes through. Photo / Dean Purcell A weather prediction chart by MetVuw out of Victoria University shows the situation over the country for tomorrow. Astorm set to blast much of the country over the next three days with wind, waves, hail and snow was born from an unusual and powerful mix of ...

  • Whats done is done and alls well at home says Dunne

    United Future leader Peter Dunne says all is well in his home life as he faces the Electoral Commission today over funding for his party. Mr Dunne resigned as a minister this month after refusing to hand over emails to an inquiry into a leak of a GCSB report to Fairfax reporter Andrea Vance. Mr Dunne has denied leaking the report. Yesterday he said he did not want to comment on those ...

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