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• Son had killer ram in headlock

  A ram believed to have killed a rural Auckland couple also went after their son, who held the beast in a headlock and called for help.

• Coalition is committed to radical cuts

  New Zealand finds itself at a familiar spot in its history. A new Government has come in and is promising to shake things up. It wants to make New Zealand a better place. More competitive. Deliver better public services. This is pretty much like every other incoming government since MMP.

• Letters Rail, ferries, not roads

  Is this Government taking the mickey, or do they assume we are all stupid? Building a tunnel which will cost more than replacing the inter-island ferries is right out of Lala Land.

• Robert Chalmers-Wilson, to anyone who’s met him, is a happy, thriving boy.

• Lotto

• Mullet a cut above the rest

  New Zealand’s newest national champion is a 10-year-old named Ted Keen from Kerikeri.

• Dramatic underground rescue

  A construction worker had to be winched to safety after becoming trapped between a sheet pile and a beam while working in a concrete chamber 6m underground on Auckland’s $1.2 billion giant wastewater pipe.

• Christ Church Cathedral

• It was approaching midnight at Femme Fatale and the senior member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club was kicking back in a private room with friends.

• SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT

  Eden Park’s new fragrance is called Number One and if that name is meant as a pun — and presumably it is — it’s a bit on the nose. When I recently called Eden Park CEO Nick Sautner to discuss the perfume, I asked if he knew Number One was a pun. “Yes,” he said, “but there are other iconic global brands that have a number one product too.” He didn’t name the brands, though, so it’s impossible to know whether their products are also fragrances, or whether the products represent places where urine is frequently part of the experience.

Featured documents

• ‘Untangle the web’: $18m frozen

  More than $18 million of alleged bribes from a South American corruption scandal will remain frozen in New Zealand after police were given more time to “untangle the web” of international bank accounts....

• Awful anthem versions: Daze the music died

  Opinion has been unanimous this week that the national anthems have been grotesquely awful at the Rugby World Cup, with recordings of a kids’ choir being called unforgivable, and poorly received everywhere....

• Could New Zealand become the SAUDI ARABIA OF WIND?

  The South Taranaki Bight offshore wind project is not even on the drawing board, yet the potential of New Zealand for power generation at sea is drawing worldwide attention....

• We can do this, NZ We can do this, NZ

  What do we want New Zealand’s economy to look like in 20 years?...

• BOATING TRAGEDY ‘It keeps me up at night’

  My mother died in 2011. I was 19. I’d not seen death or CPR before, and it was quite the introduction. I vowed to surf more. It was my escape....

• None

  State Highway 12 rolls through hillsides and farmland in Northland — hair-raisingly narrow with sharp turns and pockmarked with filled-in and newly forming cavities. It’s about as far from London’s Covent Garden or New York’s Met as you’ll find, and about the only place where The Voice now performs....

• None

  Just before 7.30am on March 27, 1984, a man walked through the front door of Wellington’s Trades Hall carrying a suitcase....

• 10 years to MELTDOWN

  They remember the terrorist as someone who found joy in this country to which he had escaped....

• None

  British retiree Andrew Bayram was woken at 3am by a knock at the door at his home in Suffolk. Two grim-faced police officers were standing in the dark....

• I married Julian Assange in prison. Now I’m fighting to FREE HIM

  He’s the notorious WikiLeaks founder, imprisoned since 2019 in Belmarsh and Britain’s most divisive inmate. She’s the mother of their two small children and the lawyer campaigning for his release....