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<i>Editorial:</i> Drink-drive bill chance to act decisively

Sallies betrayed us over housing - tenants' group

Five more appear after major drug bust

<i>Luke Goode:</i> Citizens as gatekeepers

P-making equipment found in BOP

The stolen brides turned into Stepford wives

According to some estimates, one in five Chechen marriages begins when a girl is snatched off the street and forced into a car by her future groom.

Let them eat tapas? Michelle Obama faces holiday fury

A holiday with her daughter Sasha in Spain has landed the US' first lady in the middle of a political tempest.

Benefiting who?

Dita De Boni wonders whether a food stamp scheme for those on low incomes could work in New Zealand.

<i>Cartoon:</i> What the government should say

Invalids may have to defend benefit

Those on an invalid or sickness benefit may have to defend their right to it if recommended changes to the welfare system are taken up by the Government.

ACC cuts police booze bus funding

More teenage pregnancies, fewer births

Many mums on benefit since teens

Controversial new data suggests that more than half of all sole parents on the domestic purposes benefit first became beneficiaries as teens.

DPB crackdown has lots of backers in target group

<i>Wendyl Nissen:</i> Comic relief

Drug dealer should lose home, says Crown

A man arrested during a major police drugs operation offended from his home and should forfeit it, the Crown says.