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![Beach Busters: Parking tickets a nightmare for the coast](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Beach Busters: Parking tickets a nightmare for the coast
You could be contributing to the mess on our beaches and not even know about it. Recently 90 parking tickets or car registration dockets were picked up by volunteers cleaning up Rangitoto island. We traced several of them back to their Auckland owners.
![NZ beaches hit with tide of trash](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
NZ beaches hit with tide of trash
2.66 tonnes of trash was removed in the first Christmas coast clean-up in Auckland, worrying figures for those hoping to hit the beaches this summer.
![Cruising: Outsiders wallow in days of decadence](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Cruising: Outsiders wallow in days of decadence
John Gardner finds that to be really in the swim on a luxury superliner, you need to have an ample stock of cruise stories.
![Rena spill: Only dregs left - salvors' oil success saves beaches](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Rena spill: Only dregs left - salvors' oil success saves beaches
Salvors on the Rena are being lauded for saving the Bay of Plenty from a second big spill after....
![Rena spill: 'Heartbreaking' for little blue penguins](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Rena spill: 'Heartbreaking' for little blue penguins
Authorities assisting with wildlife recovery are being inundated with oiled little blue penguins. It is the middle of breeding season for the nocturnal birds who get covered in the thick tar-like oil while crossing rocks to return to their burrows.
!['Racist' NZers blaming Rena disaster on Filipino crew](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
'Racist' NZers blaming Rena disaster on Filipino crew
A Philippines-based seafarers association has accused "racist and extreme right" NZers...