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![Worker tumbles 40m from Mount summit](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Worker tumbles 40m from Mount summit
A 63-year-old council contractor survived a 40m plunge down a sheer rock face from the peak of Mt Maunganui.
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Chinese buyers talk up benefits
Chinese dairy investors may be media shy, but they have been lobbying politicians and other key players at the highest levels.
![Family staring at bankruptcy after Blue Chip failure](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Family staring at bankruptcy after Blue Chip failure
A Tauranga family with a hearing-impaired child is facing bankruptcy after going it alone in legal action over their failed Blue Chip investment.
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Police cell beating 'unjustified' - IPCA
Four police officers beating a young man with batons and pepper-spraying him 65 times was "unnecessary, unreasonable, and unjustified", the IPCA has found.
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Twister singles out Tauranga home
A freak tornado has ripped off a shed roof, flinging it almost 100m, while leaving almost everything else untouched.
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Facebook 'friend' steals TV contestant's identity
A person Amelia Gough trusted as a Facebook friend ended up stealing her photos and using them to create fake pages in her name.
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Family victims of fire and burglary in same weekend
A horror weekend for a Merivale family saw them become victims of both a house fire and a burglary within hours.
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Joyce approves Tauranga toll road
Transport Minister Steven Joyce has given the go-ahead to a half-billion-dollar, 23km toll road east of Tauranga.
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Schoolgirls' crash 'devastating' for school
A two-car crash which left five Rotorua Girls' High School students injured today has been "absolutely devastating", principal Annette Joyce says.