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| | 'No ordinary storm' to strike New Zealand
Strong winds in the lower North Island and snow in the South Island disrupted people yesterday, but the MetService is more concerned about a potentially 'destructive' storm due this weekend.
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| | John Key among the rich getting richer
National Party leader John Key has squeaked into the National Business Review's annual Rich List for the first time, with his estimated $50 million net wealth just meeting the list's threshold for inclusion.
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Technology |
 | Review: Golf: Tee It Up!
By EMILY BUXTON - NZGamer.com
A golf game might not be everybody’s idea of a good time but even people who struggle to tell the difference between a 9 iron and a $9.95 iron from K-mart will find something to like in Golf: Tee It Up.
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| | Facebook to go web wide
The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke of spreading his service across the web, even while apologising for past excesses.
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| | Retirees lead the charge online
By CONNIE LEVETT
The web may be thought of as a young person's game, but older people are leading the charge in internet take-up in Australia, embracing a technology that has only become pervasive in the years since many of them retired.
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| | Google starts Wikipedia rival
Google has opened its website Knol to the public, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity.
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National News |
 | Panic text before death
By RON BRISTOW and Jo McKENZIE-MCLEAN
A father of five sent a desperate text message to his partner saying he was lost, hours before police found his body on a North Canterbury riverbank yesterday morning.
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| | 'No ordinary storm' to strike New Zealand
Strong winds in the lower North Island and snow in the South Island disrupted people yesterday, but the MetService is more concerned about a potentially 'destructive' storm due this weekend.
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| | Girls' eggs taken as safeguard
By RUTH HILL and ANNA CHALMERS
Some parents of child cancer sufferers are having their little girls' eggs frozen to give them the chance of having their own babies one day.
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Sport |
| | Loss has Henry in tight spot - Eales
By RICHARD KNOWLER
Former Wallabies captain John Eales reckons Graham Henry will be squirming as the pressure mounts ahead of tomorrow night's Bledisloe Cup clash.
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 | Powerhouse Palu confident Wallabies will win
By DUNCAN JOHNSTONE in Sydney
Wycliff Palu only knows the direct approach on the field and the big Wallabies backrower is just as forthright with his views about the Bledisloe Cup test. "We're going to beat the All Blacks" was his clear message for Saturday's showdown.
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| | Pakistan Champions Trophy to go ahead
Players' union boss Paul Marsh has warned many of the world's best cricketers won't play in September's Champions Trophy after the International Cricket Council decided against shifting the event from Pakistan.
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World News |
| | China says terrorists targetted Olympics
Shanghai police have broken up an international terrorist group that had planned to attack an Olympic football preliminary match in the city, state news agency Xinhua said.
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| | Female bomber kills seven in Iraq
Six members of a US-backed neighbourhood patrol and a civilian have been killed in an attack by a female suicide bomber in northeast Iraq.
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| | Mosley wins damages in sex privacy case
Motor racing boss Max Mosley has won damages in the High Court after a judge ruled his privacy was violated after The News of the World published a story about his part in a sado-masochistic orgy.
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Rural |
| | Falling sheep numbers put more jobs at risk
By TIM CRONSHAW
Meat & Wool New Zealand chairman Mike Petersen has warned further job losses are possible if larger-than-expected lamb and ewe losses force more meat plants to be closed.
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| | Feed shortage fears for lambing
By TIM CRONSHAW
Newborn lambs may not be as frisky as usual if there is no relief to the drought in the South Canterbury hills.
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| | Mystery bacteria linked to US potato disease
By KENT ATKINSON
A plant disease scare in tomatoes, which triggered biosecurity bans on New Zealand potatoes, tomatoes and capsicums, has now been linked to a disease in American potato crops.
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Business |
| | Speedy ASB acts on shock rate cut
By ROELAND van den BERGH
ASB has defied expectations and cut its two-year fixed rate in response to the Reserve Bank's decision to lower the official interest rate by 25 points to 8 per cent, the first such reduction in five years.
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| | KPMG takes ex-partner to court
International accountancy firm KPMG has launched legal action against former long-time partner Bruce Gemmell, who joined rival Ernst & Young last month.
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| | Millionaires should 'stump up $40m'
By MARTA STEEMAN
Auckland millionaires Eric Watson and Mark Hotchin should stump up with $40 million of their own money for Hanover Finance if they are serious about gaining investors' support for a moratorium.
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| | Ruling puts Fonterra in front for leftovers
By ANDREW JANES
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has cleared National Foods' and Warrnambool Cheese and Butter's bid for Australian cooperative Dairy Farmers, paving the way for Fonterra to pick up some of the leftovers.
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Dominion Post |
| | Peters flies into a storm
PHIL KITCHIN, MARTIN KAY, VERNON SMALL
Prime Minister Helen Clark has rejected calls to grill Winston Peters over donations to NZ First, saying he has assured her he has done nothing illegal.
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| | Capital cops a hammering
GREER McDONALD and KAY BLUNDELL
Southerly gales that whipped up 10-metre high waves battered boats, planes, cars - and people - as wild weather took hold of Wellington.
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| | Girls' eggs taken as safeguard
RUTH HILL and ANNA CHALMERS
Some parents of child cancer sufferers are having their little girls' eggs frozen to give them the chance of having their own babies one day.
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Marlborough Express |
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| | Welcome workers, says health boss
Rose Daly and Maike van der Heide
Marlborough should stop living in "huge denial" about increasing number of vineyard workers moving into the community and start living with the consequences, says Kevin Fleury, Marlborough's Public Health Organisation special projects manager.
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Manawatu Standard |
| | HANOVER CRISIS
Do you know someone affected by Hanover Finance’s decision to freeze its funds?
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 | Meters set for launch
By KATIE CHAPMAN
Grappling for small change to feed the parking meter will be a thing of the past by November.
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| | Levin paper cuts back, goes free
By MERVYN DYKES
Levin newspaper, the APN-owned Daily Chronicle, is cutting back its publication from six days a week and going free.
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The Nelson Mail |
| | Former CYF worker faces police investigation
A Nelson Child Youth and Family social worker has resigned over allegations of unethical and "inappropriate" behaviour with a teenage boy, which are now being investigated by the police.
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| | Rising abuse has teachers concerned
By TRACY NEAL
Nelson teachers are becoming more concerned at an increase in violence towards them from students, after eight throughout the region were stood down last year for assaulting school staff.
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| | Hanover hopes money is safe
Hanover Finance co-owner Mark Hotchin "would like to think" that more than half a billion dollars owed to 16,500 investors was safe.
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The Press |
| | Panic text before death
Ron Bristow and Jo McKenzie-McLean
A father of five sent a desperate text message to his partner saying he was lost, hours before police found his body on a North Canterbury riverbank yesterday morning.
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| | Rates drop prods banks
Banks are under pressure to reduce mortgage interest rates after the ASB defied expectations with a cut yesterday.
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| | Blow to boy's dream
Benjamin Pak was dying of leukemia when his mum told him she would take him on a trip to the Gold Coast if he could just pull through.
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| | Rich defy downturn, raise wealth
Ian Steward
The rich are getting richer, even as the financial screws turn on ordinary New Zealanders, the latest National Business Review Rich List shows.
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Southland Times |
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Taranaki Daily News |
 | Meet Sue ...
Sue - the world's largest, most complete and best preserved tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered - is being unveiled at Puke Ariki in New Plymouth tomorrow.
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Timaru Herald |
| | Love leads to prison recall
By RHONDA MARKBY
She also provided the man with a cellphone and harboured him when he absconded from a residential rehabilitation programme.
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| | SC farmers query Evans Street plan
South Canterbury farmers questioned the safety of the proposed State Highway 1 development on Evans Street at a meeting in Timaru last night.
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 | Rain no dampener
It arrived without a ticket, but rain was not going to dampen the spirits of Roncalli College ball-goers last night.
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Auckland |
 | Heritage homes face demolition risk
By MELANIE VERRAN
Passionate residents in the "garden suburbs" are vowing to fight for continued protection of their pre-1940s heritage homes.
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 | School crackdown on low riders
By REBECCA PAPPRILL-PETERS
A fashion that originated in American prisons and made its way into most east Manukau schools several years ago seems to be on the way out.
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Hawke's Bay |
 | A finger in every pie (+video)
KIM RUSCOE
The youngest entrant to win gold at the Supreme Pie Awards, Hawke's Bay baker James Buckrell, is on the rise, becoming the youngest ever judge.
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| | Drink-driver an easy arrest
MARTY SHARPE
A Napier woman who was twice the legal drink-drive limit handed police one of their easiest arrests when she drove to the police station and walked in the front door.
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| | Judge fed up
Kerry Pedersen copped an earful from a judge in Hastings District Court yesterday for racking up his 160th dishonesty offence.,p.
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Northland |
 | Brown promises vibrant basin
A promise has been made by Far North mayor Wayne Brown that the council will work with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust to achieve a bustling Stone Store Basin.
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| | Education is the answer
By RICHARD EDMONDSON
A skilled and innovative workforce will drive the growth of a high value economy in the Far North boosting wages and raising living standards.
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 | Whale sighting right rare
Rare sightings of southern right whales in Northland coastal waters have prompted fresh calls for the public to look out for the nationally endangered whale.
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