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Letters: SailGP event cancelled, scams and sympathy and our dreary national anthem
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Hamilton and Te Awamutu Parks to become seas of yellow
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England football legend staying in agent's spare bedroom, opens up on alcohol battle
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Boy with 'crippling disability' denied rehab after five-hour brain surgery
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Friends rally after tragedy strikes a South Auckland whānau.
Richard Lewis’ official cause of death revealed
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