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• Maori road signs not welcomed by everyone

  BILINGUAL road signs are coming to the West Coast, hot on the heels of school signs which are already being replaced to include the word ‘‘kura’’.

• Children brainstorm ideas for safer roads

  ALL ideas were considered — pedestrian crossings, changing speed limits, speed bumps, tunnels, overbridges — even a ‘‘helicopter hat’’ that could fly children to school was floated.

• Well-travelled centre eager for Old Golds to get into Mead Cup

  HAYDEN Todd is used to a commute but he out-did himself a few weeks ago.

• Otago University students selected for global summit

  MAIA Dean is looking to the stars for inspiration — not the twinkly ones, the Nobel prize-winning ones.

• Villainous nurse role won Oscar

  LOUISE Fletcher was a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award.

• ‘Hero’cosmonautbroke longestspacevoyagerecord

  RUSSIAN cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who holds the record for the longest space journey for any human, was described by the Roscosmos space agency as a ‘‘hero’’ of the Soviet Union and Russia.

• Visionary,compassionateproducer

  WHILE making preparations for his own funeral, television executive and producer Michael Andrew Stedman, who died on July 30 aged 74, told a friend: ‘‘I never thought the last production I would be involved with would be my own.’’

• Locals plan to appeal landfill

  THE Smooth Hill landfill will be considered by the Environment Court as a community group and Dunedin Airport appeal the approval of the planned facility.

• $52m hotel officially opened

  THE Langlands, Invercargill’s newest hotel, has been compared with staying in the Big Apple.

• Crown to appeal teen rapist’s sentence

  TAURANGA: The Crown will appeal the nine-month home detention sentence given to teenage rapist Jayden Meyer.

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