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Three generations of the May family travelled to Dunedin from Timaru and Oamaru to watch Otago beat Wellington in the HRV Cup final yesterday.

Otago Polytechnic fashion graduates Mandy Myles, Samuel Ralph and Rakel Blom are among 31 finalists chosen to show their garments at the upcoming iD International Emerging Designer Awards.

Super Liquor stores in Dunedin and Mosgiel were temporarily closed recently by the Liquor Licensing Authority after staff sold alcohol to a 16-year-old girl.

The ''appalling'' aggravated alcohol abuse at Heffs Hotel is behind a Liquor Licensing Authority order for the South Dunedin premises to be temporarily closed for part of this week.

A private search for 18-year-old Blake Sinclair in and around the Clutha River will continue today.

Police officers assess the damage to a patrol car that hit a large dog, which later died, on State Highway 88 at Burkes, Dunedin, about 2pm yesterday.

Before television and mass media, advertising was dominated by the transfer of commercial logos and business brands on to bottles and crockery for the home.

Alone, the landscape of Otago inspires.

At least seven incidents of extreme intoxication and violence at Heffs Hotel, including a gang brawl, are being considered by the Liquor Licensing Authority in a bid by police to have the South Dunedin pub closed.

SPCA Otago chief inspector Virginia Pine is ''extremely disappointed'' in the sentence imposed on a Dunedin man, who was convicted in relation to a ''very disturbing'' animal welfare case.

At least one redundant Hillside worker has been denied a Christmas hamper of community-donated goods, organised by Labour Party Dunedin South MP Clare Curran.

Otago motorists are being urged to relax, take their time and report frustrating or dangerous behaviour to avoid road rage and rash decision-making during the holiday period.

Fines may be imposed on those responsible for illegally dumping rubbish in Dunedin's student quarter.

New Zealand prisoners have been awarded more than $450,000 in compensation since 2005, of which about $47,000 has been paid to their victims and $27,000 in other payments, including fines.

Like many collectors, Norm McRobbie has a hard time finding space to keep everything.

The University of Otago's Marsh Study Centre takes shape on the site of the former Gardens Tavern at the northern end of Castle St yesterday.