The ruling JLP seems committed to keeping a number of promises that were made on the campaign trail. Significantly, they have already held faith in removing the fees for tuition to students at the secondary level of education. The greatest test is yet to come now that the government has decided to go ahead with [...]
With a child bleeding from her throat, feeding the parking meter was the last thing on Rosemary Mortimer’s mind.
However, she says Wilson’s Parking’s off-hand response to her plea to have her $45 parking fine excused really got her blood boiling.
Ms Mortimer’s 13-year-old daughter, Anna - who had surgery to remove her tonsils six days previously [...]
Militants loyal to Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have clashed with Iraqi security forces in Basra and Baghdad for a second day in fighting that has killed more than 50 people and wounded hundreds.
The fighting between government forces and Sadr’s followers has spread to other towns in the south where Sadr wields wide influence, as a [...]
The New Zealand dollar continued climbing against the greenback overnight as the US currency retreated broadly.
By 8am today the kiwi was buying US80.71c, having been climbing since Monday afternoon when it was around US78.80c.
The US dollar retreated broadly overnight, posting its steepest loss against the euro in two weeks, hurt by concerns about the health [...]
Capital and Coast District Health Board has done a deal with Philips Healthcare to get new radiology and cardiology equipment. It is destined for the new regional hospital in Newtown, which is due to be completed at the end of this year.
The board said the deal was one of the biggest amounts spent on diagnostic [...]
Katrina Aranui has raised her young family in the shadow of the Exide plant - but moved when her doctor warned against children growing up near an industrial lead-emitting factory.
Exide faces illegal discharge penalties
“It’s the kids that have to suffer. I moved because of my daughter,” she said yesterday.
Two-year-old Biani was born with ear deformities [...]
Katrina Aranui has raised her young family in the shadow of the Exide plant - but moved when her doctor warned against children growing up near an industrial lead-emitting factory.
? Exide faces tough penalties
“It’s the kids that have to suffer. I moved because of my daughter,” she said yesterday.
Two-year-old Biani was born with ear deformities [...]
Teenagers seem to know that loud music can damage their hearing, yet most see no reason to lower the volume on their iPods, a small study suggests.
In focus-group discussions with students at two high schools in the Netherlands, researchers found that the teens were generally aware that blasting an MP3 player could harm their hearing. [...]
If he were born to another generation, Remy Syminton wouldn’t have survived.
He was delivered on December 28, 2007, just 25 weeks into mum Geraldine Smith’s pregnancy
Without the high tech help he got first at Auckland hospital, then at North Shore’s special care baby unit, he would have died.
“He’s a real miracle,” says Mrs Smith.
“It’s very [...]
Sheree Veysey was 14 when depression descended; suddenly and with a frightening grip. “It was like all the colour had been sucked out of the world, and nothing tasted good any more.”
The Auckland peer support worker - aged 27, grinning, bubbly and wearing a bright green shirt - was in Wellington last week for the [...]
