Sarah Marquet

    Crunch time for 'robbers'

    Crunch time for 'robbers'

    Constable Louise France watches as young passengers tease a "train robber", one of two apprehended after the Cadbury Crunchie Train stopped at the Dunedin Railway Station yesterday. Const France and Constable Heather Rei were waiting to take the robbers in hand when the train arrived with 350 passengers after an action-packed three-hour ride from Wingatui.

    Rimed with ice

    Photo by Sarah Marquet.

    Rimed with ice

    Frost struck Alexandra yesterday, keeping some areas cool into the afternoon. Residents woke to a 5-degree frost that blanketed the region in white as the sun struggled to burn off the thick layer of fog. At noon, the temperature had only just climbed above zero.

    Lowest temperature war heats up

    Sam Leask checks the temperature at the Niwa field station in his yard at Ophir. Photo by Sarah...

    Lowest temperature war heats up

    Hot under the collar about Ranfurly recently pipping Ophir for New Zealand's lowest recorded temperature, minus 25.6degC in 1903, Sam Leask, who records Ophir's weather for Niwa, extends a challenge to Ranfurly to get a colder modern-day temperature than Ophir.