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Fashion Plate: Meg Wilson
Boxing Day Fashions in the Field winner Meg Wilson is having another shot for the top title at this weekend's Derby Day.
Rugby: Highlanders top NZ teams
Only the Highlanders remain unbeaten of the New Zealand teams in rugby's revamped Super 15 after the Blues faded in Durban today.
<i>Ask Phoebe</i>: Mystery of the orange road cones unravelled
We are not being surrounded by aliens from outer space after all, but by PVC monsters.
Writer keen to acknowledge inner strength
Having led a lonely childhood, Lesley Pearse knows what it is to seek a better life. Now she is helping women to help others. She tells Stephen Jewell how.
'I thank my lucky stars I still have one'
Holding his only surviving daughter after a horror car crash, Donald Coulter says: "I thank my lucky stars I still have one. I still wish I had two."
Motorist rescues boy after fatal crash
Police have named a woman and her daughter killed in a crash today. A two-year-old girl also in the car was rescued.
Appeal over BK's final warning to unhappy Facebooker
A union will be appealing Burger King's decision to issue a final warning to a Dunedin employee for posting the message "real jobs don't underpay and overwork people like BK does" on her private Facebook page.
The joy of hassling her own heroine
Kiwi crime queen Vanda Symon talks to Craig Sisterson about accidental heroines and playing with swords.
Two attacks on Dunedin police in 24 hours
Three Dunedin police officers were injured in an attack last night, the second such incident in 24 hours.
<i>Anthony Doesburg</i>: Mobile charges a heartbreaker
Cheaper calls may be at hand, but you'll probably still need two phones to get the best deals.
Officer set upon in 'cowardly attack'
A "cowardly" man who attacked a Dunedin police officer - leaving him with concussion, bleeding to the face and bruising - is still at large. The officer was set upon by a passenger who was travelling in a car he stopped late last night.
Burger King 'bullied' staffer over Facebook post
Burger King has been accused of bullying a worker who complained about work conditions on Facebook.
Harvey hits back at 'party central' criticism
The Rugby World Cup "party central" will be "a destination second to none" and will be ready in time for the event, Auckland Waterfront Development Agency chairman Bob Harvey says.
Book Review: <i>Landfall 220</i>
After an interregnum of six years following the "retirement" of Justin Paton (the quotation marks are an intriguing addition by the publisher) in 2004, during which "guest editors" steered the ship, Landfall has a permanent editor again.
Capturing the true spirit of young Kiwis
Alison Shanks has stood on the dais to receive world championship and Commonwealth Games gold medals. But she remembers just as vividly standing at the helm of the Spirit of New Zealand.
Emergency landing at Dunedin Airport
A jet aircraft carrying 115 people had to make an emergency landing at Dunedin airport this evening after a bird-strike incident.
Bus ride down NZ's steepest street 'foolhardy'
A driver is being labelled by police as foolhardy for trying to take a bus full of tourists up reputedly the world's steepest street.