Moscow Ballet La Classique - The Nutcracker

Moscow Ballet La Classique return to New Zealand with their spectacular masterpiece - The Nutcracker. With their artistic ballet skill, lavish costumes and magnificent stage sets, the illustrious La Classique will ...

Napier | Sunday, 26 May 2013

Gardening: Chop trees before they're a problem

Until a week ago we had a 30m-plus eucalyptus behind our house. It was a gorgeous thing, obviously much older than I, and I was very emotionally attached to it.

Fashion: Down to earth

I've never made it a secret - I like high heels. The higher and more ridiculous, the better.

Disorientated school tramping party rescued in heavy fog

Otago Boys' High School rector Clive Rennie is backing the decisions of two teachers who had to be rescued along with 10 pupils from the Rock and Pillar Range on Saturday night. Twenty Land Search and Rescue (SAR) volunteers from Dunedin and 10 Middlemarch farmers were sent to rescue the school tramping party, after the teachers and teenagers became disorientated in heavy fog and mist about 7.30pm. They spent about six hours sheltering among snow tussock and rock below the ridge on the Middlemarch side of the range. Cellphone coverage in the area was patchy and the batteries in the group's…