Top 10 stories of the week - July 10

Phil Rudd has been sentenced to eight months home detention under GPS monitoring with the condition to not posses or consume drugs. Photo/John Borren

Here is this week's run down of the stories that got the most clicks over the past seven days.

- A major new international music and arts festival arrives in Tauranga this January, providing an opportunity to stamp the region's unique mark firmly upon the New Zealand summer festival circuit.

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- The source of three unexplained lights which appeared to float in the night sky remains a mystery for the Maungatapu man who spotted them.

- A winter cold snap has resulted in snow falling in the Western Bay of Plenty.

- It's dry July but for some women wine o'clock is a daily addiction. Annemarie Quill meets four brave women who sought help for their dependency and are now helping others.

- Tauranga's longest-serving lawyer has closed his last file and is heading into retirement after 61 years in the profession.

- Two well-known Tauranga motor racing identities are accused of defrauding ACC over a period of 12 years.

Tauranga couple Grant and Lorraine Brennan, who appeared in Tauranga District Court yesterday, are on trial defending ACC fraud charges. Photo / George Novak

- A Tauranga man who lost his son to suicide says 569 suspected suicides in one year is a "national tragedy".

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- Traffic lights will replace a roundabout at a Tauranga intersection which has been the location of 15 crashes in the past five years.

- The behaviour of players and supporters at a local rugby game has "shocked" a spectator who says the referee was screamed at and threatened

- Phil Rudd's lawyer has revealed to the Bay of Plenty Times that he has lodged an appeal to this morning's sentencing.