A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize — that is the claim America’s self-aggrandising president could well be making, and his supporters certainly are, as he moves towards a meeting with Kim Jong-un.
Trump will of course say it is the pressure he has put on North Korea and China
that has led to the apparent rapprochement between two bitter enemies, giving no credit to South Korea’s Moon Jae-in who has made it plain for a long time that he wants to make peace with the North. That leaves us waiting to see what transpires when Trump and Kim do meet, with expectations remaining low for many. But in the meantime there has been plenty to keep news junkies satisfied.
The man once lauded as America’s father of the nation, Bill Cosby, has been convicted of sexual abuse in what is being seen as a major victory for the #MeToo movement that took hold between Cosby’s two trials.
Royal couple Kate and William chose the name Louis for their second son, great news for the British bookies who were carrying heavy betting on Arthur.
In Britain a cold winter and early spring has been made more bitter by news that GDP has fallen to a five-year low, as complications continue to grow for Theresa May and her government with regard to efforts to disentangle Britain from the European Union.
