By Tina Law and Tanya Katterns – The Press A growing number of Christchurch pupils are struggling to deal with Mondays after binge drinking at the weekend, a top police officer says. Canterbury police district youth services co-ordinator Senior Sergeant John Robinson said yesterday that 15 and 16-year-olds were appearing in the Youth Court…
View Larger Map, General view of Gould Crescent where the shooting took placeChristchurch, the city that’s ‘not the nation’s murder capital,’ has just experienced another serious shooting incident. After an ‘altercation’ at a house in Radley Street, Woolston at around 10.20 last night gunshots were heard in nearby Gould Crescent about an hour later. The…
Today’s Dom Post is highlighting the alarming rates of drug abuse in young people, with children as young as 12 being caught with drugs in school playgrounds. The Post reports that “last year, schools stood down 1184 pupils for drugs, suspended 815, and expelled 30. Education Ministry statistics dating back to 2006 show rates of…
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A 61 year old American tourist and his female passenger were injured when their car collided with a petrol tanker whilst both vehicles were travelling south on Highway 6, between Frankton and Jack’s Point at around 8:45 am yesterday. The driver had to cut free from the wreckage, as yet the injured people’s names haven’t…
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