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A Buckie playgroup for children with developmental delay and learning difficulties faces closure unless it can find a new home.

Incidents of cars colliding with birds are common. Brad Flahive/Stuff WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Jeanine Oxenius delivers dead ducks to Auckland Council in protest at its response to the avian botulism outbreak. One duck was found sitting on the road with both legs broken, Miller said. In another smash, a mother duck was killed by a car and her orphaned ducklings ushered in. “My heart goes out to these birds,” Miller said. “This is what we see every day.” “I can’t even begin to ...