Hamish McNeilly

Divers in difficulty sparked a marine search and rescue yesterday afternoon.

Firefighters were kept busy attending four couch fires in the student quarter last night.

Jonathan Dixon - the man at the centre of ''Tindallgate'' - says he would have been behind bars if he had followed the advice of his lawyer.

The electorate office of Michael Woodhouse MP was attacked yesterday - the third such incident in six years.

Ryan Muirhead stands outside his fire-damaged garage in Burns St, Milton, which was targeted twice in suspicious circumstances early yesterday.

Police are investigating several burglaries in Dunedin over the weekend.

Dunedin Police are wanting to reunite stolen property with its rightful owners.

The Fire Service were called to three couch fires in the student quarter over night.

Behaviour associated with an inner city Dunedin flat has upset a nearby business owner, who claims racial and sexual taunts have been hurled at her from drunken revellers.

A loophole which allowed a petrol station owner to covertly steal thousands of dollars worth of fuel, has been closed.

Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has declined to comment on the issue of foreign drivers.

An incensed Dunedin man took car keys from a tourist who had stopped to take photos on Otago Peninsula, causing eight vehicles to back up on the narrow road.

Unconnected calls to *555 on Saturday night were because of ''unprecedented demand'', police say.

Spare a thought for Warren Goodwin.