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  • Kiwi Everest climber Edmund Hillary hailed as a great Briton

    Sir Edmund Hillary - the first person ever to scale Mount Everest summit - has been called one of "those great Britons" by a conservative British newspaper. Britian's Daily Telegraph bestowed the dubious title upon Auckland-born Hillary, who conquered Mt Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay about 60 years ago, Stuff.co.nz reported. The new nationality was given to Hillary in a small editorial on ...

  • Daniel Vettori set for NZ Test return this week

    New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori is set to return to action in the second Test against England this week after Bruce Martin was ruled out of the rest of the tour with a calf injury. Vettori has not played for the Black Caps for almost a year because of a hamstring injury and was left out of the squad for the two-Test series in England. But with Martin sidelined by the injury that prevented ...

  • Indian-origin men in New Zealand face gang-rape charges

    A woman has given evidence in a court in New Zealand implicating four men of Indian origin of raping her in turns in April 2011. Amir Chand, 25, Harvinder Singh, 22, Kamaljeet Singh, 27, and Sumit Vermani, 26, are defending the charges in the high court in Hamilton, Fairfax NZ News reported Tuesday. The woman has claimed that the four men raped her in the course of an evening during the ...

  • Ian Bell to recover in time for second test against New Zealand

    England middle order batsman Ian Bell is expected to recover from tonsillitis and play against New Zealand in the second test match starting from Friday. Bell's illness got him a score of 31 runs for 133 balls during the second innings at Lord's, and England's medical team is confident that there will not be a relapse this time. The Independent reports that once Bell is fit, there won't be any ...

  • PHOTO SKY TVs million dollar pledge to Christchurch

    A photo from today's presentation by SKY TV of a $1 million cheque to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trust. SKY TV's chief executive John Fellet presented the donation to Prime Minister John ...

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Flight [Blu-Ray]

Flight [Blu-Ray]

Flight marks the return to live-action drama for director Robert Zemeckis, who has spent the past decade making motion-capture computer-animated films, none of which really worked due to both the limitations of the technology and its tendency to lure filmmakers into bombast and overkill. Th ... ...

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  • Alleged car thief arrested in Christchurch

    Police anxious to get wanted driver off the road Christchurch Police have arrested a man they alleged was a "prolific car thief" in relation to a crash earlier this month. Police said Joel Allan Linwood, 23, was arrested without incident at a house in Hornby this morning. He will appear in Christchurch District Court tomorrow morning in relation to the unlawful taking of a vehicle ...

  • Channels available for Urewera compensation - police

    Anyone seeking compensation for police failings during the Urewera raids will have to go through the usual channels, the Police Commissioner says. A report from the Independent Police Conduct Authority, released today, has found officers acted unlawfully in establishing road blocks and detaining people during the raids. "I apologise for those instances where Police failed to meet expected ...

  • Notorious drink-driver to be released from prison

    Source: ONE News One of the country's deadliest drink drivers is about to be granted his freedom. Gavin Hawthorn, who has killed four people in two separate crashes, appeared before the Parole Board today to have his release conditions set. Once he is freed on June 4 he must abide by eight conditions which include being banned from driving and owning a car, as well as not being ...

  • Irrigation a game changer PM

    Prime Minister John Key. Photo / Warren Buckland Prime Minister John Key has expressed his support for a multi-million-dollar irrigation scheme in the Hawke's Bay. On a visit to what he described as the "rural heartland", Mr Key was in Dannevirke yesterday backing a major water storage project and oil exploration. "The Government supports irrigation because of ...

  • Runaway millionaire loses sentence appeal

    Leo Gao. Photo/ Stephen Parker "Runaway millionaire'' Leo Gao's bid to have his jail sentence reduced has been rejected by the Court of Appeal. In its judgement released today, the Court of Appeal said Hui "Leo'' Gao's good behaviour before he stole $6.7 million from Westpac could potentially have made him eligible for a three-month deduction to his jail ...

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