Prime Minister John Key yesterday poured cold water on Super City Mayor-elect Len Brown's ambitious plans for rail.

The Dreamliner is a big deal to the thousands of suppliers around the world making components and to the 55 customers lined up waiting for the new-generation aircraft.

Since Eurostar launched services between London and Paris in 1994, it has cornered the largest share of the richest travel market in Europe.

A silver-haired bureaucrat known as the Super City 'fixer' has been handed the controls of transport and water in the Super City structure.

The Waitakere Tramline was built in the early 1900s to facilitate repairs and maintenance to the Waitakere Dam. Weekly trips have now been running for 35 years and are a great way to amuse the entire family, whatever the weather.

An inquiry into a fatal mid-air collision has revealed a huge increase in dangerous close calls in the skies - and sparked pleas for change from grieving families.

We don't really know much about Owen Glenn the businessman - the sheer scale of his empire and his success as an entrepreneur.

The manufacturers of the Bombardier say yesterday's Blenheim incident was the third one of its kind worldwide in less than a week.