Nigel Benson

The promoter of a Fleetwood Mac concert scheduled for Dunedin later this year is angry at being charged a $50,000 fee after the cancellation of the concert.

Southern South Island researchers who have made outstanding contributions to health were celebrated in Dunedin this week. The annual awards acknowledge researchers and research initiatives at the Dunedin School of Medicine and Southern District Health Board.

They are calling her their ''shock daughter''.

The Hare Krishna faith was more a science than a religion, a visiting swami said in Dunedin yesterday.

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery has won an international award for its website.

Otago commercial fishermen have reacted with anger to a proposal to extend a ban on set-net fishing around the Otago Peninsula to help preserve yellow-eyed penguin colonies.

Book covers were happily traded for bedcovers after The Star Regent 24-hour Book Sale in Dunedin at the weekend.

Wet, muddy conditions in Dunedin at the weekend were good news for Mike McCarthy, of Dunedin, as he tackled the Waitati Park course in his V8 Safari during the Otago Land Rover Owners Club 4x4 Ironman rally yesterday.

An old stager has a new role at the Regent Theatre.

A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand.