Irwin Industrial Tools had been Wellsford's icon and biggest employer, but with the factory abandoned, the town is moving on.

An official survey has found that families with children are far more likely to be in hardship than any other New Zealanders.

Forget bars and clubs. Increasingly, the new meeting ground for singles - and those looking to stray - is the workplace.

One of the men accused of Dean Browne's murder had a "loose connection" to the woman who lived at the address where his body was found.

Signs of family breakdown emerge in the wake of Iceland's financial crash.

Both are loving mothers, who after years of devoted care to their disabled children felt they had no choice but to take the law into their own hands but while one was allowed to walk free from court yesterday the other will go to jail.

Is feminism to blame for the number of women who find themselves single? The Independent's Liz Hoggard delves into the issue.

When Dean Browne's former girlfriend heard he had been murdered and dumped in a New Plymouth garage, she knew his lifestyle had finally caught up with him.

In the United Kingdom, calls are growing by opposition politicians and the public that the full report of the review of the case of two brothers who savagely attacked a pair of boys in Edlington, South Yorkshire, should be made public.

Most of the jobs were offering low pay and many had unsociable hours, but the applicants turned up in their thousands.