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Auckland beaches\' sea slug warning
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:09:15 +1200 - People are being warned to look out for toxic sea slugs on all beaches in the Auckland region, after one was found on the shores of the Manukau Harbour.A sea slug was found on Cornwallis Beach this week, it\'s currently being tested...
NZ soldiers find Afghan weapons cache
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:21:47 +1200 - Kiwi soldiers have recovered a big cache of weapons in Afghanistan after a tip off from an Afghan civilian.The New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team in Bamiyan found seven 107mm rockets, six mortar rounds and 18 boxes of...
Manhunt after Armourguard hold-up
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:10:14 +1200 - Armed robbers are believed to have got away with thousands of dollars after holding up an Armourguard security van outside an ASB bank at the Westgate Shopping Centre in west Auckland this afternoon.The men looted the van just...
Last-minute efforts to avert strike fails
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:05:39 +1200 - Eleventh hour talks aimed at averting a nationwide strike by radiographers next week appear to have failed.Representatives of the country\'s district health boards (DHBs) met with the radiographers\' union Apex in Auckland today...
Repeat drink-driver jailed over fatal crash
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:58:43 +1200 - A recidivist drink driver was today jailed for four years for killing a Northland mother while driving with nearly double the legal alcohol limit.Warren John Jenkins, 49, of Orewa, north of Auckland, admitted driving with excess...
Teen to police: \'I\'ll be next Jan Molenaar\'
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:42:36 +1200 - A Hastings teenager who was yesterday jailed for assaulting his mother told police they had made his life hell and he would become the next Jan Molenaar.Bevan Graham Jones, 19, was sentenced in Hastings District Court on two charges...
NZ as a republic \'inevitable\' - Cullen
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:00:22 +1200 - Michael Cullen still regards himself as somewhat of a monarchist, but accepts that there is inevitability about New Zealand eventually becoming a republic.Addressing the \'Reconstituting the Constitution\' conference in Parliament...
Home trashed but case \'not a priority\'
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:20:00 +1200 - After their home was burgled and trashed, Nagesh Kakanoor and his family spent an anxious night wondering not only if the people who had broken into their house would return but if police would come to investigate their complaint.Thieves...
$1.4m bank fraud accused named
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:14:08 +1200 - A woman allegedly at the centre of an alleged $1.4 million Waikato fraud bank fraud has been named.Judge Robert Spear confirmed in Hamilton District Court this week that name suppression for former Westpac banker Susan Ann Bourton...
\'Utter disbelief\' at NZ crash survivor
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:49:11 +1200 - The sister of the New Zealander who was the sole survivor of Tuesday\'s plane crash in Papua New Guinea says she felt \"utter disbelief\" when she heard he was alive.Kelby Cheyne, 25, originally from Dunedin but now living in Toowoomba,...