A spate of brazen burglaries plaguing Masterton continued with two overnight break-ins on Wednesday netting thieves a quad bike, tools and other property.

Heartland Wairarapa have one last chance to move off the bottom of the table in the southern conference of the national youth league football competition.

When a family has to deal with trauma, it can blow their world apart.

The Golden Shears committee had a vision for this year's event to be smokefree and succeeded beyond their expectations, says chairman Phillip Morrison