Do you have any information on this case?Email the Herald Newsdesk Expand Lesley Longstone. Photo / Education Gazette Education Ministry boss Lesley Longstone this morning fled from Parliament when confronted with questions about a sex offender who has been working in an Auckland school. A ministerial inquiry was launched yesterday [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Pike River families back mine closure
Expand Solid Energy has stopped underground mining at its Spring Creek Mine, near Greymouth. Photo / File photo / Greg Bowker A spokesman for the families of the Pike River Mine disaster victims says it’s “great” the Government is taking mine safety seriously by suspending operations at another West Coast [...]
Protective clothing prevented serious injury after explosion
The Greymouth electrician who received facial burns after a power transformer exploded in her face yesterday was saved from more serious injury because she was wearing all the correct protective clothing. The 24-year-old electrician from Electronet was working at the old Inangahua Junction sawmill site, currently being used to crush [...]
Retailers: Market move will hurt us
Expand Photo / Thinkstock A stoush is brewing between the Huntly community and retailers who are trying to block attempts to move the Friday market to a large, council-owned carpark. Huntly market organiser Ross Baxter is facing strong opposition to his attempts to move the market from the old Countdown [...]
Strange sightings blunt great white shark skepticism
Expand File photo / Thinkstock The fishy tale of a great white shark stealing a bronze whaler from two fishermen on Tauranga waters has been joined by other strange sightings at sea. Kerry Grant and William McIntosh were fishing 1.5km from a beacon near the entrance to Tauranga Harbour when [...]
Does NZ have the worst broadband in the world?
Expand AP Photo / Ariel Schalit British comedian and actor Stephen Fry ‘s rant about New Zealand’s internet wasn’t over the top, say internet experts and users. Photo / SuppliedExpandBritish comedian and actor Stephen Fry ‘s rant about New Zealand’s internet wasn’t over the top, say internet experts and users. [...]
Coroner takes aim at parents, CYF over baby’s death
Police treated Hail-Sage McClutchie’s death as a homocide but have never charged anyone. Photo / Supplied A coroner has pointed the finger at unacceptable parenting in the last days of a toddler’s life and a failure by Child, Youth and Family to assess her safety as contributing factors in her [...]
Dotcoms request $200,000 a month
Expand Kim Dotcom’s wife Mona. Photo / Richard Robinson Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and his wife need more than $200,000 a month to get by, the High Court at Auckland has heard. Dotcom, facing extradition to the United States, and his heavily pregnant wife Mona are seeking to have some [...]
Norwegian Antarctic explorer abandons expedition
Expand Norwegian Antarctic explorer Jarle Andhoey. Photo / Supplied Controversial Norwegian explorer Jarle Andhoey has abandoned his unauthorised polar expedition in search of his missing yacht and is now fleeing to South America, according to Norwegian media reports. Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet reported that Andhoey had informed his lawyer that his [...]
Woman was texting before fatal crash, police say
Expand Paula Jessep. Photo / Facebook Two sisters and their friend will spend Christmas in hospital after a road smash which claimed the life of a Hamilton woman. Paula Adele Jessep died when her northbound Toyota Rav4 crossed the centreline and ploughed into a Nissan car containing the three young [...]