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Mayor: Quake hit city 'like an iceberg'
Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker says there is "significant structural damage" to his city after this morning's 7.1 quake, with some eastern suburbs facing possible evacuation.
<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Dear Allan Hubbard - Please say sorry and thanks
Dear Allan Hubbard. Please take responsibility for the mess created by the boom and now bust of the South Island's largest financial institution, writes Bernard Hickey.
One dead in fire
Police and Fire Safety officers are investigating after a body was found in a burnt-out campervan in the South Island this morning.
Finance giant on the brink of collapse
Allan Hubbard's finance company is near receivership and is understood to be in last-minute talks with the Govt and overseas investors to avoid NZ's largest corporate collapse in decades.
South Canterbury Finance trading halt likely to persist
South Canterbury Finance is likely to remain in a trading halt into next week as it awaits fresh capital.
SC Finance in trading halt
South Canterbury Finance had its securities halted from trading on the NZX debt market pending an announcement on a new investor.
Statutory managers confirm shortfall in Hubbard Funds
The value of some investments were overstated by at least 25 per cent.
Cabinet braces for Hubbard SFO fizzer
Cabinet is bracing itself for the possibility that the SFO probe into Allan Hubbard will not find any evidence of complex fraud.
Investor backs 'genius' Hubbard
Allan Hubbard is a genius, says one investor who says she has doubled her money in 12 years.
Hubbard supporters push bandwagon on to internet
Thousands of people using the internet to their support for embattled Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard.
Hundreds rally in support of Hubbard
A march in support of Allan Hubbard and his wife Jean proceeded through Timaru's main street today and finished up outside South Canterbury Finance.
Hundreds rally to support Hubbard
Hundreds have rallied in Timaru to support Allan Hubbard.