In Canterbury today last minute shopping for pre-Christmas treats filled many peoples agendas as they all sought to complete the hundred-and-one things they needed to do on Christmas Eve.
Canterbury cricket legend Sir Richard Hadlee is confident the Women's Cricket World Cup will go ahead without a hitch in March, despite the threat of Covid hanging over the event.
Visiting the sun is impossible, but for a New Brighton amateur astronomer his forays into the boiling 5500 deg C cauldron of the corona layer of the sun’s atmosphere are done photographically.
A recent burglary and an unprecedented demand for restored bicycles has left a Christchurch group scrambling for old bikes to repair and pass onto the community.
The clock will be turned back on Friday when a nearly 100-year-old sports club marks the day it finally allowed members of the opposite sex onto the grass court.