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Work to protect an erosion-plagued section of Ocean Beach at St Clair has been delayed yet again after a contractor erred by overfilling a sand sausage.

Detectives are investigating a string of car fires at the weekend, the latest in a growing list of burnt-out cars discovered recently.

Forget the hand of God - Kaikorai had the hand of Jayden Spence.

The classy midfielder had a hand all in three of Kaikorai's tries.

Heavy snow is falling in parts of the South as a polar blast slowly makes its way up the country.

Kaikorai beat Dunedin 29-22 to win the premier competition for the first time since 1997.

Midfielder Jayden Spence had a hand in all three of Kaikorai's tries.

There were no fancy horse names like Maythehorsebewithu or Ray Sauce - just 75,000 sugar-coated balls of chocolate named 00001 to 75000.

It was a sight you had to see to believe.