There's only one thing I'd like more than seeing the back of John Banks as he leaves Parliament today and that's for the Government to likewise resign, writes Bruce Bisset.

It would be a person with a heart of stone not to have been touched by little Sienna Malatai's story in our paper on Wednesday.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's final report on the oil and gas industry is a damning indictment of a cavalier industry and the "free for all" attitude.

The "Four Weekends of Winter F.A.W.C!" get under way tonight, writes Andrew Austin.