That’s kind of how I feel about Catherine MacLellan’s album, Church Bell Blues. She’s an excellent road trip companion, even if she’s just a voice coming out of the stereo. I found myself really listening to what she was saying or should I say, singing about and I never minded hearing those same stories again [...]
The group were travelling by coach from their hotel in Chengdu to Wolong reserve for wild pandas on Monday when the earthquake struck. Another 31 British tourists who were caught in the zone have been located, according to the Chinese Government.
David and Diane Atkins, a retired couple from Portchester, Hampshire, are among those still missing. [...]
At the small east Auckland college, 550 pupils, staff and parents remembered the three boys, three girls and their teacher who were on the final day of an adventure holiday.
Hundreds of kilometres away in Tongariro National Park, 50 distraught staff of the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre returned to Mangatepopo Stream to pay their [...]
At the small east Auckland college, 550 pupils, staff and parents remembered the three boys, three girls and their teacher who were on the final day of an adventure holiday.
Hundreds of kilometres away in Tongariro National Park, 50 distraught staff of the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre returned to Mangatepopo Stream to pay their [...]
It was raining the day Tasha embarked with her best friend, Portia McPhail, and other Elim Christian College pupils for an adventure she was not exactly keen on, having had her share of thrills and spills.
Her father, Andy Bray, asked how she felt to be going canyoning in such weather on Tuesday. She said her [...]
View video: Pupils die in school tragedyView video: Storm wreaks havoc
The students -three girls andthree boys - and a male teacher died yesterday after heavy rain swiftly turned a river the group was canyoning down in the Tongariro National Park into a torrent.
Police have released the names of the victims. They are:
- teacher Anthony McClean, [...]
Christopher first worked at his fathers Hastings auction house at the age of five, running auction sheets from his father to the accounts clerk.
His son, Alastair, also aged five, will be doing the same at the final no-reserve auction of McKearneys collection on April 28 and 29.
Murray McKearney was principal of the Hastings antiques and [...]
But as the frigate inched away from the wharf at Devonport Naval base yesterday, the emotional pull was inescapable, brave faces crumpling and the tears welling.
A comforting hand reached out to 21-year-old Michelle Hawk, surreptitiously stroking her back, lending her strength as she presented a stoic face to those waving from shore.
Whew, that was hard, [...]
He says he followed his usual practice of turning up the light on the compass, ready to take over the wheel, and noticed the ship was already not steering well not unusual for a tail swell and square stern ship and the lack of visibility made it difficult to sight the buoy on [...]
%26bull; Blog: Growing up with cancer
Were happy, Terence White said yesterday outside the hospital where four-year-old Bianca is in an isolation unit.
We do think Wellington should have an oncology service. Its the capital city of New Zealand - and wed really like to have some certainty.
Bianca was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia last June, beginning [...]
