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| | Players say no to rape probe
By PHIL HAMILTON
As England rugby players refuse to speak to New Zealand police over rape allegations, a rape-prevention expert says it is not surprising a formal complaint has not been made.
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 | Labour voters still prefer Clark
By COLIN ESPINER
Labour voters still believe Prime Minister Helen Clark is the best person to lead them into this year's election, despite the party's continuing poor performance in the polls.
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Technology |
 | Stuff's guide to digital SLRs
By PAT PILCHER
Point, shoot. For a lot of cameras, that's all you have to worry about. And for a lot of people that's just fine.
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| | Your reviews: Okta Mondo mobile
By ANTHONY LEALAND
I lost my Sanyo phone and Telecom gave me an Okta Mondo one and $100 credit. I should have wondered why.
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| | University's robot learns how to be a human
By GLEN JOHNSON and PAUL MULROONEY
He's less scary than a Dalek, trendier than a transformer, and now Victoria University's security robot is putting a more compassionate face on his technological kind.
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National News |
| | Two charged with raping schoolgirls
Two men have been charged with raping two 14-year-old girls in school uniforms after allegedly plying them with alcohol and cannabis at a Palmerston North hostel.
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| | Crime city Christchurch too scary for women
By IAN STEWARD
Rising violent crime has made more than two-thirds of Christchurch women more fearful for their safety than they were five years ago, a new study of attitudes toward crime shows.
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| | Fire guts Auckland boat factory
Firefighters spent a cautious night at a boat factory south of Auckland watching for any rekindling of the fire which all but destroyed it.
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| | Missing Corrections file recovered
The Department of Corrections and police last night recovered a highly sensitive file containing names and personal details of some of the country's most notorious criminals.
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Sport |
| | Defence key for English chances
By JIM KAYES
England midfielder Jamie Noon says that if they can tighten their defence, they will go a long way toward beating New Zealand tonight.
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| | Players say no to rape probe
By PHIL HAMILTON
As England rugby players refuse to speak to New Zealand police over rape allegations, a rape-prevention expert says it is not surprising a formal complaint has not been made.
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 | Waikato crowned NBL champions
By IAN ANDERSON
"This is what every basketball player in New Zealand plays for an NBL title. Woooooh!" Ray Cameron summed up the ecstasy of the Waikato Pistons in Wellington last night as they won the National Basketball League crown with an 84-79 victory over the Wellington Saints.
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| | Herbert happy with tour
By FRED WOODCOCK
They scored 18 times in two matches but it wasn't the goal-scoring exploits that most pleased Wellington Phoenix football coach Ricki Herbert on the club's short pre-season tour to the Gold Coast this week.
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World News |
| | Afghans count Taliban dead
Nato and Afghan forces held mopping up operations, hunting Taliban fighters and burying the dead after an air and ground offensive routed hundreds of insurgents from a valley near Kandahar city.
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| | Dr may have advised HIV man safe
A doctor admits he may have advised Victorian health authorities that a man accused of deliberately spreading HIV could not pass on the virus.
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| | Eiffel tower to turn blue
France will mark the start of its six-month presidency of the European Union by lighting up the Eiffel Tower in blue with yellow stars, recalling the EU flag, newspaper Le Parisien reported.
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Rural |
| | March of the tall timbers
By TIM CRONSHAW
Californian redwood trees are making a stand in North Canterbury, where the conditions are perfect for their skyward thrust.
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| | Wheat rises likely
By TIM CRONSHAW
A dud corn planting in the United States is expected to raise returns in the wheat fields of Canterbury.
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| | Debate over GE application
By TIM CRONSHAW
Temuka farmer Jeremy Talbot wants field trials of genetically engineered vegetables held offshore.
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Business |
 | Aussie exodus baffles bureaucrats
By NICK CHURCHOUSE
A record exodus of Kiwis moving to Australia this year shows an emerging trend of trans-Tasman migration, and the Government is trying to find out why they go.
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| | Who'll be next in line?
The perfect financial storm now churning its way around the world has even the best finance companies in its grip.
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| | Downturn foiled bigger tax cuts
By VERNON SMALL
The Government shaved $1.3 billion off a planned $5 billion annual package of personal tax cuts less than a month before the Budget, in the face of forecasts of slow growth and a likely blowout in debt.
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| | New look for 'friendly' book chain
By KRIS HALL
The national roll-out of Paper Plus' multimillion-dollar new in-store look started in earnest in Tauranga this week after an "excellent" year for the books and stationery retailer.
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Dominion Post |
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 | Clark still Labour's best weapon
TRACY WATKINS
Helen Clark is still the Government's most potent weapon, with few voters believing Labour stands a better chance of winning the election with someone else at the helm.
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 | Two die in boat crash
PAUL MULROONEY
Two men were killed instantly when their commercial fishing boat slammed into a former navy vessel moored in the Marlborough Sounds.
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| | 'He kept going like the Energizer Bunny'
KIM RUSCOE
The Auckland woman at the centre of a British tabloid storm has accepted an offer to tell all about her night with an English rugby international, after her ex-boyfriend's lurid description of the incident.
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Marlborough Express |
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| | Two dead, one critical after boat crash
Two crew members are dead and a third is in a critical condition after their runabout boat smashed into a stationary ex-navy boat in Waikawa Bay, Picton this afternoon.
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| | Gingko can go, says health board
Rose Daly
As the construction team at Wairau Hospital prepares for the final go-ahead to re-develop the site, several large macrocarpa trees have been tackled by the tree surgeons to accommodate the new buildings.
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Manawatu Standard |
 | Right place saved Geoff
By JANINE RANKIN
A computer technician who suffered a massive heart attack on the job could owe his life to the fact he was surrounded by 5 and 6-year-olds when it happened.
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| | School thief in court
By JODY O'CALLAGHAN
A receptionist who stole more than $27,000 from Opiki School over a period of two years was yesterday sentenced in Palmerston North District Court.
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| | Disease scare at the Regent
By KATIE CHAPMAN
More than 1000 people passed through the Regent on Broadway during a three-week "period of concern" before bacteria capable of causing Legionnaires' Disease was found in the cooling tower.
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The Nelson Mail |
 | Near-misses increasing around port
By TRACY NEAL and KAREN GOODGER
Conflict between recreational and commercial boaties is an increasing hazard in Nelson's harbour, with several near-misses highlighting the problem.
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| | Company vows to contest charge
A Nelson company being prosecuted over the death of a construction worker who was partially buried by clay in a deep trench says it will "vigorously" defend itself in court.
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| | Gym creche regulations still `a joke'
New regulations for creches at pools and gyms that will see parents able to leave their children there for up to six hours a week do not go far enough for the Nelson mother who started a national petition on the issue.
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The Press |
 | Boat crash kills fish workers
Alex van Wel and Press reporters
Two Blenheim men were killed in a "tragic collision" between an 11m aluminium boat and a former naval vessel in the Marlborough Sounds yesterday.
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| | Barred British lawyer in NZ
Phil Kitchin
A disgraced lawyer who fled Britain leaving 14 clients with $500,000 of legal bills is living in Blenheim.
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| | Eye on Crime: City too scary for women
By Ian Steward
Rising violent crime has made more than two-thirds of Christchurch women more fearful for their safety than they were five years ago, a new study of attitudes toward crime shows.
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Southland Times |
 | City police on alert for gang war
By EVAN HARDING
Armed police are this weekend patrolling the streets of Invercargill amid fears of gang warfare erupting between the Road Knights and Mongrel Mob.
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| | Officer in the wrong says crash eyewitness
By BARBARA WITHINGTON in Alexandra
Three-year-old careless driving charges against Alexandra man Shane Cribb were dropped because of the evidence of a woman who witnessed the crash.
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Taranaki Daily News |
| | Hotel school denies financial strife
By HARRIET PALMER harriet.palmer@tnl.co.nz
Ten staff at Bell Block's Pacific International Hotel Management School (Pihms) have been laid off as the organisation struggles financially.
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| | Woman's nose busted for a dare
By GLENN McLEAN glenn.mclean@tnl.co.nz
A dare was all it took for a Bell Block teenage girl to punch a stranger in the face.
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| | Top cop against arming police
By LEIGHTON KEITH leighton.keith@tnl.co.nz
A top Taranaki cop says permanent armed police are not needed in his patch.
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Timaru Herald |
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 | State of SH1 angers motorists
Road users want Transit New Zealand and its consultants Opus to pay for damage caused to their vehicles on the passing lanes between Timaru and Temuka.
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Auckland |
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| | Cliff Rd fix to cost $4m
By JUSTINE GLUCINA
Emergency works to stabilise cliff-top roads in danger of subsiding with heavy rain will cost ratepayers $4 million.
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 | Piha Rd causes concern
By STEPHEN FORBES
Stretches of Piha Rd are a danger to public safety and must be fixed before someone is killed, says William Murdoch.
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Central North Island |
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 | Anthem right groove for soprano Marvelly
By Phil Campbell
Elizabeth Marvelly, the Rotorua soprano perhaps a groove or two away from cementing stardom, performed before her biggest audience two weekends ago.
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Hawke's Bay |
| | Dander's up, so is the surfing
MARTY SHARPE
On one side is Susie Smith, a 62-year-old grandmother saying she was knocked off her surfboard and held underwater.
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| | Ocean Beach earthworks 'a mockery'
MARTY SHARPE
Extensive earthworks at Ocean Beach in Hawke's Bay are a blatant abuse of Hastings' district plan, critics say, but the landowners say they are just maintaining farm tracks.
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| | Jewels found in car
BERNARD CARPINTER
A thief who broke into a parked car in Napier found $50,000 work of antique jewels in the boot.
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| | Surfers' wave rage
MATT CALMAN
Lyall Bay is one of the country's most crowded surf beaches. A glut of surfers competing for waves at the Wellington beach has led to fists flying in the water, people being dunked, and surfers being pushed off their boards, locals say.
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Northland |
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| | Domain action group disbands
The Kerikeri Domain Action Group is disbanding to make way for a new community trust being formed to progress the development of the domain.
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 | Thinking ahead to restore birds
The Puketi Forest Trust, which has been working to restore wildlife to Puketi Forest since 2003, is aiming to raise $1 million in capital to fund the restoration of the unique subtropical kauri forest in perpetuity
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