Sideswipe

Support from within?

Everybody knows Act has had trouble increasing its poll ratings, but Stephen Cooper was concerned to hear the email feedback after Rodney Hide's interview with Kim Hill on Wednesday night. Hill read out an email from a "Nick Kearney", who proclaimed "Rodney Hide talked so much sense he's just won my vote. I have seen the intelligent Rodney, and it was brilliant!" Cooper certainly hopes that isn't the same Nick Kearney who is Act's Te Atatu candidate, because if your own candidates don't make up their minds to vote for you until four weeks out from the election, then what hope is there for the rest of the voting public.

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Lost dog saved from landfill fate

A small dog escaped becoming even smaller when a sharp-eyed worker spotted it about to enter a compactor at a rubbish transfer station. Leonie Molloy, a worker at the Papakura Transfer Station, said the dog had been left at the tip around 11am on Sunday and had not yet been re-claimed. The dog was seen earlier with two men in a white four-wheel-drive towing a trailer with unusually large wheels. She said the dog was saved from the compactor just in time. "I went and helped catch the little thing. It was terrified." She took it home to spend the night with her own "menagerie": a German shepherd, a bichon frise cross and two cats. She said its owners should claim it soon; she had already had offers for it.

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Name that song

Duncan Campbell, Paul Holdom, Radio Viva's Simon Dallow and my musician other-half all pointed out that The Devil You Know was sung by Dave Dobbyn (in his DD Smash days), not Split Enz as stated in Sideswipe. Yes, you are right, but Split Enz also had a song by the same name from the album Conflicting Emotions. So na, na, na, na, na to you all.