John Lewis

A CYF senior staff member has been assigned to meet Dunedin North Intermediate principal Heidi Hayward to discuss her concerns about two 12-year-old pupils exposed to drug use.

The Catholic Diocese of Dunedin is to demolish Bernadette’s Church and the adjacent C J Collins Centre in Forbury Rd within the next few months, to make way for a new apartment building.

Anger at the ongoing lack of funding and resources to deal with at-risk children, such as a 12-year-old regularly using drugs, has prompted a Dunedin school principal to write an explosive open letter to several Government ministers.

DNI principal Heidi Hayward has written an explosive open letter to Govt ministers expressing ``deep concern'' about the lack of resources to help ``at-risk'' children.

Plans to establish a secondary boarding school for Muslim boys in South Dunedin have been shelved but consideration is being given to setting up a co-ed Muslim primary school instead.

Recreational walkers are outraged at the creation of a new mountain bike track linking the Nicols Creek mountain bike track to the Pineapple Track.