John Lewis

Shania Twain fans are promised a visually stunning show from the Queen of Country Pop at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium tonight.

When Tap & Dough Bistro co-owner Norma Emerson turned up at her newly opened Middlemarch restaurant and found effluent flowing through it her first instinct was to run and never look back.

The New Zealand Principals' Federation is dismayed there has been little to no consultation with schools over changes to English language support funding.

A male has been taken to Dunedin Hospital this afternoon suffering burns.

A last-minute cut to English for speakers of other languages funding has left school principals angry and scrambling to find ways to fund Esol teachers they have already employed for next year.

The leaders of several southern schools which appeared in an Auditor-general's report for being in financial difficulty, say they are on the list for ''mere technicalities'' rather than anything serious.