After-work drinks ended badly for a Dunedin man when he lost control of his car and wrapped it around a power pole.

An Otago PhD graduate has won a prestigious Australian thesis award, with an academic work that ‘‘breaks the mould of what a PhD can be’’ and struck the judges with its ‘‘joyousness’’.

A 47-year-old man was arrested after pretending to shoot staff and customers at a Dunedin cafe with his fingers.