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A plate of roast rat please, with plenty of tomato sauce

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A plate of roast rat please, with plenty of tomato sauce

Copperfields, the cafe inside the Beehive, offers a tasty range of treats for those who work within the parliamentary complex.

In living memory

A -9°C frost did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of young rugby players taking part in a June 1986 seminar organised by the Cromwell junior coaching clinic.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

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Gravel roads built to last

The macadam road is named after the developer of this type of road in Great Britain, John L. McAdam.

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The putting it right counts

Everyone makes mistakes: it is what one does next which matters.

Dam proposal deeply dismaying

Central Otago does not need another expansive mudflat Sir Grahame Sydney writes.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

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Ancient rituals of Lyttelton’s winter solstice

The view from Mr Bennett's front window, metaphorically speaking. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

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Ancient rituals of Lyttelton’s winter solstice

Woohoo, do you feel it? Has your burden lightened a little, your spine straightened?

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Dunedin citizens on honours list

Dunedin recipients of King’s Birthday Honours (from left) New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition...

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Dunedin citizens on honours list

Wellington, July 2: The Governor-General announces that his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Birthday Honours list, to confer distinctions on the following...

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GP funding package

The promised shake-up of funding for general practice has taken years but is still not pleasing everybody.

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Venezuela: things could change

A man carrying belongings walks through a damaged building, after earthquakes hit La Guaira,...

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Venezuela: things could change

Bad things happen, and some of them are nobody’s fault.

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Playing catch-up and connecting with home as uni takes a break

Grading has been quietly done and the university grind is about to start again. PHOTO: GETTY...

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Playing catch-up and connecting with home as uni takes a break

The first few weeks of uni break have passed by, playing a game of catch-up.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

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The Redcastle homestead, a mile or two to the north of Oamaru, has been acquired by the Christian Brothers as a boarding and day school for the diocese of Otago and Southland. It is understood that...

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Otherwise not fine nor dandy

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Otherwise not fine nor dandy

As the people of the Wairarapa and Wellington continue to clean up after the latest southerly storm, sage words on the frequency of damaging weather in New Zealand come to mind.

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