The congregation of St Paul's Trinity Pacific Church on Cashel St have come to accept the reality - their 135-year-old church is no more.

The Government is still months away from a definitive answer on where and how many homes in Christchurch will need to be demolished and abandoned.

CTV building survivor Anne Malcolm, the mother of Outrageous Fortune star Robyn, finally got to meet her guardian angel Barry Grottis in an emotional reunion in Christchurch.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Chancellor, George Osborne, this week delivered a Budget that was unambiguous in backing business to lead the nation out of the economic doldrums.

More than 510 businesses, or 2000 people, have been granted access to buildings within the cordoned area.

The moon's got nothing to do with it. Unless it does. Which it may. Perhaps. We just don't know. It's a bit like having lucky numbers for Lotto.

Workers loaded trucks with boxes of bottled water to distribute across the city today after residents cleared store shelves following warnings that Tokyo's tap water had elevated radiation coming from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear complex

The Tokyo Water Bureau has warned parents not let their infants drink the city's radioactive water supply, with levels two times the recommended limit for infants.

Herald reporter Michael Dickison, who is fluent in Japanese, reports from a remarkably changed Tokyo.

Herald reporter Michael Dickison has been travelling through the devastation on the coast of Japan. Yesterday, he visited Sendai.