Fisticuffs to be knockout event for charity
A chat about big fists between two Napier businessmen recently has led to a unique fundraising venture to support a cause both are keen to do their bit for - the Breast Cancer Cure Research Trust.
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Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party leader Michael Appleby has lodged a complaint to the Human Rights Commission further challenging his exclusion from a candidates' television debate in Gisborne next week.
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Protection order breached: Police
A man accused of stabbing to death the mother of his children in Havelock North this month was allegedly breaching a protection order when police say he went to her home and murdered her, charges before court reveal.
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Sisters sue father, fear reprisal
Two Napier teenagers who successfully sued their father for $20,000 worth of stolen pocket money fear he will re-appeal in an effort to forgo his court ordered payments.
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Why on earth would these girls fear reprisal? from who?They earned the money, it was banked into accounts with their own names and he took it. Pretty low thing to do. If someone took money he earned I'm sure he wouldnt have such a blase attitude about...
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Diabetes diagnosis came as shock to mum
Dannevirke's Luuka Clark is like most other 4-year-old girls - she loves pink and purple and pretty dresses.
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Soccer: Translation not required
It's the sort of thing you hear after social grade competition, surely not in the region's premier soccer grade.
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Rugby: Angry coaches ignore player
Screaming toe-to-toe junior rugby coaches were oblivious to a crying player on the ground on Saturday.
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Sport
Rugby: Tango dances to his own combative beat
James Tango regularly raises eyebrows with his no-fear approach when playing for the Clive premier rugby side.
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Editorial: Father goes too far in bid for money
You often hear about families fighting over money.
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Oily Rag: Fire lighting made simple
It's getting cold, so it's not surprising we have had some tips recently about a problem that has occupied the minds of humans since fires were invented - how to start them easily.
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NZ Herald
DHB slammed for letting mental health patient decline procedure
A decision to allow a mental health patient to decline a potentially life-saving procedure has been slammed by a coroner. Wellington Regional Coroner Ian Roderick Smith criticised Capital and Coast District Health Board (DHB) in three inquest findings released today. He said 61-year-old Melvyn Bedford, who had an alcohol-induced dementia disorder, should never been given the choice of having a nasogastric tube inserted to drain fluid from his stomach while going under the knife for a hernia operation. Mr Bedford, well-known to the Kapiti Community Mental Health Team, and who was subject to…
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