Around fifty thousand people are expected at Ohakea today, for the Air Force's 75th birthday.

Prince William and his wife Catherine are to make Kensington Palace, famously associated with the late princess Diana, their London residence.

On November 28, 1979 an Air New Zealand DC-10 on a sightseeing trip to Antarctica crashed into Mt Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. In his book Daughters of Erebus, Paul Holmes reveals how the news unfolded for the family of pilot Jim Collins.