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Financial plan is like a voyage, so have navigator charting course
Distractions can send investors, like sailors, off course

Young offenders get licence to steer away from crime
A car key in a youth's hand instead of a jail key in a warder's . . . it's a no-brainer.

Cup frothing but beautiful game wobbling on its axis
World Cup showed nothing wrong with VAR but what's frustrating is how Fifa employs it.

Richard McGrath: Pools need some serious consideration
People will travel if a premier aquatic complex is delivered

France thoroughly deserve 18-carat gold cup
If statistics is yardstick of success, France are flunkies but they showed class matters

Belgium have measure of set-piece England
Belgium show the gulf in class after overwhelming England to secure third place in Russia.

Angry doctor tried to abort Soundshell
Council often rebuffed Thirty Thousand Club's plans for reclaimed land

Opinion: Impossible burger a kick in the teeth to farmers
Promoting the impossible burger seems a kick in the teeth to hard working farmers in NZ.

NZ and its ongoing property obsession
Homes are great to live in, but as investments, they're speculations

More whoa than go
I got to meet new and interesting people. Some of them were even conscious.

Census an industrial-strength fiasco
StatsNZ boss Liz MacPherson should resign over this piece of flannel.

Final chapter of fairytale belongs to Croats
Not even a Rugby World Cup win in Japan next year will soothe England's pain in Russia.

Editorial: Nurses' care is not currency
Opinion: Strikes by nurses after whopping offer threaten to turn sentiment.

Letters: Bay pays price as leaders lack vision on lake project
OPINION: Bill Sutton's change of heart to the Ruataniwha scheme is too little, too late.

Praise be the rescuers in Thai cave drama
Where will the Thai cave rescuers be in the recording of history?

Opinion: Failure to consider alternative dam options
Fans of RWSS have failed to consider other options for farming's future in Bay region.

Never mind result, Poms add flavour to Fifa World Cup
Croatia v England steals limelight but Belgium v France is real deal in Russia tourney.

Investment lessons from the World Cup
Investing works if the rules are simple, as in football.

Hastings teacher died trying to save schoolboys
Headmaster couldn't swim but leaped into river as boys struggled

Elliott just as wrong as Giuliani on crime
Reasons given for drop in New York crime rates clearly wrong

Museum promises visitors winter to warm heart
Staff busy preparing and planning collections, exhibitions and education programmes

World Cup stars kick beautiful game in teeth
Astonishing skill on display but some of the behaviour sickens