Ashleigh Dixon had an unpleasant experience trying to catch a Bay Hopper bus. Photo / George Novak
Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include a plant that can blind you, a frustrated disabled woman and a pivotal point in New Zealand gang history.
This plant cost a woman the sight in one eye for about five days.
A partially-sighted Tauranga woman was forced
to reveal her empty eye socket before a bus driver agreed to issue her a concession fare.
What happened in the small Northland town of Moerewa in the early hours of August 4, 1979, was a pivotal point in New Zealand gang history.
A 75-year old woman was driving her mobility scooter along the footpath in Hastings when a youth on a bike zoomed past and snatched her purse.
