A week out from Christmas we thought we’d do a round up of the news headlines to see whether there’s a scrap of seasonal goodwill to be found in New Zealand. What we found was that it is pretty bleak in this dismal land… The front page of the Herald website leads with “Car obliterated in crash,…
New Zealand police are being remarkably taciturn after a member of the public discovered a European woman’s body floating in Wellington harbour. The briefest of media statements was released, saying simply A woman’s body was found in Wellington Harbour at about 8pm last night. Police were contacted by a member of the public who saw…
One person has died and at least 20 injured by a massive tornado that swept across the Albany Megacentre shopping mall, in the Auckland suburb of Auckland this afternoon. Later reports said that a second person had been killed but these were incorrect. The deceased man was later named as 37 year old Benedict Dacayan,…
News outlets have recently been given details of an armed robbery that took place at the Westfield shopping mall at Albany, North Shore last Wednesday. The robbery of a security van came within hours of the escape of a prisoner from a nearby prison. Police are downplaying a possible link between the two events but…
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