Yes that’s right – Kaikoura, not Kandahar. Kaikoura is a popular seaside town in New Zealand and a setting-off point for whale watching trips. But Kaikoura’s rep has been taking a hit recently, what with visitors getting badly beaten up by mobs on the streets and seals being clubbed to death. Now we hear that…
Today’s Herald is reporting on British couple Dean and Tabitha Forbes who lost most of their possessions whilst on a pre-emigration trip to Auckland, New Zealand. Mr Forbes, from Suffolk in England, had been offered a position as an aircraft engineer at Ardmore Airport. Mrs Forbes, who works in IT, was still looking for a…
South Island, still reeling from devastation caused by this morning’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake, has been slammed with another disaster this afternoon. Nine people lost their lives and one was injured in a plane crash at Fox Glacier airport. Reports are that the plane burst into flames shortly after takeoff. It’s thought that the plane was…
An English tourist was mugged by a man who stole her handbag in Gisborne last night, according to The Herald: “The woman briefly struggled with the male robber about 10.30pm on Gladstone Road, between Gray and Cobden Streets, police said. The robber was found in a car about half an hour later by a police…
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