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Heat on husbands to learn how to broaden culinary capabilities
Meat and three veg is no longer cutting it in the kitchen for a group of Southland women who have sent their husbands to cooking lessons. A dozen men have donned aprons to improve their culinary skills under the tuition of chef and Southland Boys' High School catering and hospitality teacher Scott Richardson. The classes were the brainchild of Nicola Smith, the managing director ...
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Sir Mark Todd comes home for fathers funeral
PRINCELY HONOUR: Mark Todd after receiving his Knighthood for services to Equestrian Sport from the Prince of Wales following an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham ...
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Farmer aims to fight for title again
Otago-Southland ANZ Young Farmer of the Year Dean Rabbidge is "naturally disappointed" to have missed out on the national title but plans to give it "another good crack" next year. The 27-year-old, who farms 180 dairy cows in Glenham, near Wyndham, won the regional competition in March and headed to Auckland to compete for the champion title at the weekend. He placed ...
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Over-40s deterred from rebuild
Slashing student allowances for over-40s could discourage older Cantabrians keen to retrain for the post-earthquake rebuild, Labour says. From January, allowance eligibility for those aged 40 and over will be reduced from 200 weeks to 120 weeks. The three years would be cumulative, meaning any past allowances paid would be deducted from the weeks available. Labour tertiary ...
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School trustees to receive $14.5m training boost
Boards of trustees at the most isolated schools will finally be given training after a much-needed $14.5 million increase over four years in funding. The advocate of about 18,000 trustees has welcomed the 2013 Budget's inclusion of an extra $3.6 million to be invested in supporting school boards each year. It comes after a book released last year claimed boards spent a "mucky ...
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Early flyers can kip at airport
Tourists awaiting connecting flights wait in a smokers' shelter at Christchurch Airport after being kicked out of the international ...
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Female specialists put pressure on system
HEART STRAIN: Waikato Hospital cardiologist Raewyn Fisher said female medical specialists are naturally inclined to choose general practice and specialist areas that are more suited to working part-time and allow breaks for having ...
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Teens exit programme with new lease on life
A life-changing programme for 10 to 13-year-olds in Invercargill has been deemed a success with some children emerging with heightened positivity and a new lease on life. The pilot programme, Taitamariki Oranga programme, is in its third year at Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu Charitable Trust, and has helped 62 adolescents as well as their families. The programme is funded by the Ministry ...
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City couple celebrate 60 years of marriage
Nearly 60 friends, one for each year of the marriage they were celebrating, sat down to a diamond wedding anniversary lunch with city couple Peter and Wilma Muller on Saturday. Mr Muller, former editor of The Southland Times and author of several local histories including Rotary International, the Southland-based SBS, and the Anderson Park Art Gallery, shared that love of the written, ...
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Recidivist robber avoids spending life in prison
A man with more than 100 convictions - and described as a danger to the public - has escaped being locked up for life after he committed an armed robbery of a Kapiti supermarket. Crown lawyers argued for David Rawiri Lawson to be sentenced to preventive detention, saying he should be given the open-ended prison term - which can potentially be a life sentence - because he was a danger to the ...
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Recognise asthma symptoms - bereft mother
BALLOON TEST: Brothers Oskar, 10, left and Oli Temel, 7, are asthmatics and lost a brother, Charlie, to asthma. According to the Asthma foundation one in four children can't blow up a balloon due to ...
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Family torn apart by fatal shooting
A Northland family has been torn apart after a couple were allegedly shot by their nephew, family say. A 44-year-old man, understood to be Ivan Maheno, was killed yesterday morning at a property on Fairburn Rd, about 8 kilometres east of Kaitaia. Carmen Maheno, his wife of two years and mother to their two sons, is believed to be the 38-year-old woman critically injured. Soon ...
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Featherston should go it alone resident says
Featherston should secede from the tyranny of its bigger Wairarapa neighbours and go it alone, one long-term resident believes. In his public submission, Warwick Bennett said the town he has lived in for 19 years was already getting a raw deal that would be made worse if it became part of a larger council. He called the consultation a "sick joke" and claimed breaking away ...
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Mother just wants answers over missing son
Carole Grant has stopped crying when she thinks of her missing son, Leighton. But the Taupo mother won't stop trying to find out where he is, and whether he is dead or still alive. Grant has not seen her son since January 25, when he left her house on what she thought was a camping trip for a few days. "The last thing he said to me was he would not need any ...
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Broad rips through NZ as fortunes swing
Stuart Broad ripped out New Zealand's top order with a ferocious spell of five wickets inside six overs as a run chase that began in hope quickly became desperate. Wickets tumbled throughout the session - ten in total - as a Test match that began in slow-motion hurtled towards a conclusion with New Zealand in chaos at lunch on 29 for 6 chasing 239. England's collapse, which began ...
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Man victim of serious assault
Photo / NZ Herald A man in his 30's was airlifted to Auckland City Hospital after he was stabbed in the neck this evening. Police were still investigating the incident that occurred at a residential property on Dawson Rd, Snells Beach about 8.30pm, said Sergeant Dan Weir. "A man had been repeatedly stabbed, enquiries are ongoing." He said the victim received stab wounds to his ...
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Five-Star Broad Leaves New Zealand in Tatters
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New Zealand 296 Chasing 239 to Win First Test at Lords
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Police Officer accidentally killed student
View Photo Associated Press/Sleepy Hollow High School - In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra ...
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Zombie tourism heading to Auckland
Raising money to raise the dead is the aim of a trio of Australians intent on building a New Zealand-based zombie tourism company. Apocalypse Events Ltd was founded in February, and is gearing up to stage its first zombie apocalypse somewhere in Auckland in the coming months, with paying customers taking up roles as either the last remnants of humanity fighting for their survival, or one of ...
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Blue whales may be feeding in NZ waters
The biggest creature on the planet seems to have taken a liking to New Zealand waters. NIWA scientists studying the blue whale say the massive marine mammal may be feeding in local waters, rather than just passing through. "In the southern hemisphere, there are only four documented foraging grounds outside Antarctic waters, so if in fact this is a blue whale foraging ground it's ...
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Child pornographer to be deported to New Zealand
Jeffrey Frank Chadwick was jailed in 2011 after he was found guilty of 18 pornography-related charges. Photo / Thinkstock A child pornographer who took photos of his children's friends is the latest criminal who will be deported to New Zealand from Australia. Jeffrey Frank Chadwick was jailed in 2011 after he was found guilty of 18 pornography-related charges. He took dozens of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Auckland Feature Story
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Auckland's infastructure needs upgrading in the long run.
Auckland may in the next few years be able to upgrade two major pieces of infastructure and reap the economic benefits for the city.
There may, in the near future, be a four-lane road of national significance (RONS) between Auckland and Whangarei, which would make travel between the country’s largest city and Northland much faster and more efficient, while providing significant economic benefits to both regions as well. Read more
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