NZ at noon: Celebrities and real life fairy tales

Temuera Robinson and Winston Peters surprised carpentry graduates in Rotorua. Photo / Ben Fraser

Stories making headlines around the regions today include New Zealand celebrities passing on a few supportive words in Rotorua and a couple who prove that fairy tales still exist.

High achievers,

Temuera Morrison and Winston Peters

, applauded graduates in Rotorua yesterday.

Jean and Allan Hodder on their wedding day.

A Wanganui couple who celebrated their

70th wedding anniversary

say they have the key for a long-lasting marriage.

An off-duty Masterton worker

fell 7m while walking around on a roof

at work with his girlfriend.

Adult Selections is a legal-high retailer in Hastings. Photo / Duncan Brown

Hawke's Bay Today

caught out customers walking into a

Hastings legal-high retailer

yesterday.

Amea Campbell, nearest camera, with her two-year-old sister Kaitlyn and mother Pritrice are angry and sad about the theft of their car and their child restraint safety seats.

Thieves in Whangarei

now also steal from small children.

And finally, have you got some funny, quirky or special birth stories to tell? Tauranga business woman Chloe Wright wants to hear them...