John Lewis

Couch potatoes may suffer minor disturbances to their television viewing next week as annual maintenance work is carried out on the Mt Cargill television transmitter.

Any ideas of taking home a large sunfish found on the beach at Kaka Point, to show off to the neighbours were quickly quashed when the Costello family realised it would be impossible to pick up, or even fit in the boot of their car.

More than a quarter of Otago's primary and intermediate schools failed to provide National Standards targets in their annual charters in August this year, but that number has since dropped to two schools amid allegations of bullying by the Ministry of Education.

For such a momentous occasion, there was little fuss.

Forbury School pupils (from left) Ashleigh Ross (11), Kimiora Priestley-Cabral (10) and Hamu Kereopa (10) play on a bouncy castle set up in the school playground to celebrate Healthy Lifestyle Day.

Is there something in a name? Kate McDonald doesn't think so, despite winning a New Zealand burger-making competition.

About 6600 pupils at 14 Dunedin schools will have access to ultrafast broadband by July next year, the Government announced.

Feeding it to the dog under the table, putting it in their pockets, hiding it in the flower arrangement in the middle of the dinner table - for decades, children have found inventive ways to avoid eating cauliflower.

Dunedin's Rugby World Cup, which finished on Sunday night with Ireland's victory over Italy, has been hailed a great success for its popularity, economic impact and the way in which the city's new stadium functioned.

The Rugby World Cup is being credited with substantial increases in credit and eftpos spending in the South.

Large bullet-proof glass windows means John McGlashan College will have one of the best lit school gyms in the city.

Ministry of Education programmes aimed at helping Dunedin schools support pupils with challenging behaviour in the wake of the Phoenix Centre closure, are too slow in coming, Dunedin principals say.

The majority of Otago primary and intermediate principals have welcomed the Labour Party's vow to scrap compulsory National Standards should the party win the forthcoming general election.

Custard is a delicious dessert. But Kustard is Otago Girls' High School's newly crowned national secondary schools' hip-hop champion group.

They won the Otago Daily Times Extra! years 5 and 6 current events quiz last night, without getting a question wrong - 100 correct answers out of 100.

Rugby World Cup tourists looking to try the South's seafood delicacies are creating a "splurge" in revenue for a local seafood distributor.

Just 10 days into the Rugby World Cup, tourists have bumped spending in the Otago region to almost $10 million, up nearly 15% compared with the corresponding 10 days last year.

One in 10 school pupils who fled Christchurch in February after the magnitude 6.3 earthquake now live in Otago, and the Ministry of Education has announced school resources in the city need to be redistributed.

The next time you dine out, the chances are a man with a thick Welsh accent may tap you on the shoulder and ask for your candid opinion on the state of local government in Dunedin.