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Westport: Built on black gold
Liz Light explores Westport; a town that owes its prosperity to the earth's bounty.
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Racing: NZRB kicks in to raise money for West Coast
The New Zealand Racing Board will donate to the West Coast community 5c for every off-course tote ticket bought on the seven race meetings being held in the region in the coming weeks.
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Pike mine: 'We had time to run like hell'
A Westport man has told how he and three others ran for their lives when the Pike River Coal mine exploded at 2.37pm on Wednesday.