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Weekend leisure: Wrapping things up
With the festive season approaching, Catherine Smith finds there is more than one way to present a present.
With the festive season approaching, Catherine Smith finds there is more than one way to present a present.
Every employee in the land should be concerned at the hammering the actors have got for daring to ask for meaningful negotiations.
A motorist has slammed the long weekend road safety drive as a money-making scheme after being fined by an officer he says popped out from behind a power pole with a speed gun.
The irony is, many working people end up working on Labour Day.
More cafes, bars and restaurants are forgoing surcharges on public holidays.
Police say the driver of a car which crashed near Westport killing his young passenger, ran from the crash.
People have flocked to the beaches to enjoy the sunshine of the long holiday weekend, with conditions set to stay this way for the rest of the week.
A woman told yesterday how a blood-soaked teenager screamed for help at her front door, as two of his friends lay dead in a car wreck nearby.
Staying home is the new going away. Bronwyn Sell looks at how the 'staycation' can be just as fun as a holiday away - and at the same time can save you lots of money.
The Blacks Caps 2010/11 schedule has been announced with only two test matches set aside for the summer.
Now it seems there is a risk that employees could lose an entitlement to public holidays that fall during a closedown period
The rest of the school holidays could be chilly, with wind expected for the north, frosts predicted in the heartland, and heavy rain in the south.
Foul weather on the first day of the school holidays drove many parents to the cinemas.
Police will evaluate the weekend's "zero-tolerance" trial policy on speed before deciding to extend it or apply it again.
Police are praising motorists for their "slow and careful" driving over the long weekend, which looked set to be the lowest Queen's Birthday road toll in 50 years.
Queen's Birthday weekend has seen a drop in the overall number of crashes, with police trumpeting their zero tolerance approach to speeding as a factor.
The first person to be killed on the roads this holiday weekend was "a good mummy who loved her kids".