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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 ...

  • Anderson tears through New Zealand

    James Anderson completed a five-wicket haul as England dominated the morning of day three of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.Resuming on 4-154, the visitors added just 53 runs to their overnight total as they were bowled out for 207.The breakthrough came almost immediately for the hosts, as in just the second bowl of the day Brendon McCullum edged a Stuart Broad delivery to ...

  • Wider set net ban needed to save yellow-eyed penguins

    Forest & Bird is calling for an immediate extension to a ban on commercial and recreational set-netting around Otago Peninsula, following the release of a major new international review that has found that set nets kill more than 400,000 seabirds around the world every year. The results of the review, undertaken by conservation group BirdLife International, have been published in the ...

  • Lotto Brings Smiles to Three Players

    There'll be smiles all round this weekend for three Lotto players in Howick, Manurewa and Lower Hutt after each winning a $333,333 share of Lotto First Division.The winning tickets were sold at Sunny Dairy Superette in Howick, Countdown Manurewa in Manurewa and New World Stokes Valley in Lower Hutt.Powerball was not struck this evening and has jackpotted to $7 million.Strike Four was ...

  • Final Tauranga drought feed shipments unpacked

    Federated Farmers Grain & Seed has completed its final drought feed shipment into the Port of Tauranga, with containers being unpacked last Thursday for delivery in coming days. In all, some 100,000 small bale equivalents have been delivered via the Port of Tauranga."The entire drought feed operation has become the 'Farmy Army Navy', given the mix of farmers and ...

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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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  • National to increase NZ’s debt by $61 billion over 5 years

    Budget numbers reveal our national level of indebtedness will skyrocket by $61 billion over five years, which is an economic ticking time-bomb, says the Green Party. "New Zealand's national debt will skyrocket by $61 billion over the five years from 2012 to 2017 according to figures in National's own budget," said Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman."John Key ...

  • National’s brighter future Even more rampant house prices

    The National government's "upside" forecast is an even more unbalanced two-speed economy, says Labour's Finance spokesperson David Parker. "The Government's central projection in its Budget shows just modest growth. But their so-called "Upside Scenario" is in reality even worse. The Budget document (see BEFU p. 53) states: 'The upside scenario ...

  • Pukekohe - Missing Person

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  • Sit and wait property developers on notice

    Source: ONE News Finance Minister Bill English says new legislation aimed at improving housing affordability sends a clear signal to property developers sitting on land. The Government last week announced a record investment of almost $3 billion will be plunged into housing over the next three years, along with plans to push through an additional 40,000 home consents in Auckland in the same ...

  • Miley Cyrus gets swatted again

    Singer and actress Miley Cyrus.Photo / AP Miley Cyrus has become a victim of swatting for the second time. Armed police arrived at the home of the 20-year-old singer in Studio City, Los Angeles on Friday (local time) after receiving a call claiming a crime was underway at the property. Cyrus - who was also "swatted" in August 2012 - was not at home at the time of the ...

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