What sort of person dumps a disposable nappy under a picnic table in a family playground asks Travel Editor Jim Eagles.

Shareholders baulk at move to raise director pay at Sanford.

An oil spill response team remains on standby as salvors continue the slow process of pumping oil off the Rena one month after it ran aground. More than 1000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil has been removed since October 5.

Salvors pumped water into the Rena's starboard fuel tank overnight to allow the last remaining fuel oil to be slowly siphoned off.

The crippled MV Rena could be a blot on the Bay of Plenty coastline well into next year if bad weather doesn't smash it apart and the cost of the clean-up and long salvage operation could stretch to $100 million.