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Watson and Hotchin go after $7m
Eric Watson. Photo / NZPA Eric Watson and Mark Hotchin are seeking $7 million plus costs from a man who criticised them after the collapse of Hanover Finance. Bearing the brunt of the multi-million dollar claim is former Shareholders Association boss Bruce Sheppard. The amount is revealed in a statement of claim setting out the businessmen's case against Sheppard in a High ...
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Yachting Rules lift Team NZ
America's Cup challenger Artemis may be at a huge disadvantage, even if they get to the start line of the Louis Vuitton regatta. There are still rumblings in America's Cup circles that Artemis will not compete after the tragic death of Andrew Simpson in that fateful capsize in San Francisco Bay. Some say that team management is keen to continue; the sailing crew less so. Another ...
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Kidnap victim left mutilated
The scene of a serious incident on SH1, north of Tokoroa. Photo / John van de Ven A contractor driving a tractor bravely positioned his machine in the middle of State Highway 1 to protect a critically-injured young woman, left mutilated after being dragged behind a car for a kilometre. The woman, 27, is now on life support in Waikato Hospital with massive injuries to much of her body, ...
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Party host survives gun blasts
Armed police guard a property in Coates Crescent after a shooting yesterday. Photo / Michael Craig A man gunned down in his home was dumped at a hospital as carloads of rowdy partygoers - including his partner - fled the house before police arrived. Heavily armed police were yesterday guarding the abandoned State-owned property in the Auckland suburb of Panmure. One woman ...
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Shock find in killers cell
William Bell. Photo / Brett Phibbs One of New Zealand's most notorious killers, William Bell, has been caught with a prison officer's stab-resistant vest in his maximum security jail cell. Bell is serving an unprecedented 30 years without parole for the 2001 Mt Wellington RSA slayings. Locked up in Paremoremo Prison's most secure wing, Bell was stabbed in the eye by ...
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Mum thanks rescuer in emotional reunion
Latu Paasi wiped away tears as she watched the unveiling of her husband and son's headstone yesterday - the first anniversary of their death in a boating tragedy. Buried together at Onehunga's Waikaraka Cemetery, So'saia Paasi, 45, and his son Tino, 7, drowned nearby after their dinghy capsized during a family outing on the Manukau Harbour. Three other members of the family also on board the ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Scan more criminals union says
Corrections staff are calling for special scanning chairs in all prisons after doctors found a cellphone hidden in the rectum of an injured Paremoremo prisoner. Boss (body orifice scanner) chairs are metal-detecting seats that locate objects hidden in cavities. A Boss could detect cellphones and metal weapons. The prisoner injured in a stabbing at Auckland's Paremoremo Prison last Tuesday has ...
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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