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Liam Cosgrove Updated: 21:11, 10 May 2021 THE groom, catering firm and parents of a bridal party have issued a “full and frank” apology for their part in the staging of an “illegal” Traveller wedding reception last week. William Stokes, together with his father Patrick Stokes, both of Willow Park, Strokestown Road, Longford, as well as his father-in-law Stephen Kelly, 49 Railway Meadow, Farneyhoogan, Longford and Peter Vocella, Luigis, Main Street, Longford were all ordered to hand over...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images image captionPolice found 46 malnourished and dehydrated dogs crammed into cages in the back of a van. Stock image of dog pictured above Puppies died with canine coronavirus after being transported in crammed cages, a court was told. The dogs were found malnourished and dehydrated while being transported in a van from Cheltenham to Stoke-on-Trent. Patrick Stokes, 24, who lives on a traveller site in Durham, was driving the unventilated vehicle and...

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Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn wrote on Thursday: An irrigation company’s decision to relinquish its consent to take extra water from the Rangitata River when in high flow has been hailed as a “gift to New Zealand” by anglers.Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd (RDRML) was awarded the consent to take an extra 10 cumecs in water when the river was flowing 110 cumecs or higher by an Environment Canterbury-appointed independent panel in 2018. However, appeals by Fish and Game, Ngāi Tahu ...

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:16 am, February 28th, 2021 - 136 comments Auckland is back into level three lockdown.  The check points around the city have again been put in place and big events, including the round the bays run have been cancelled. The caution is understandable.  The latest two cases, a son and his mother, were potentially exposed to the UK variant B117 thorough a family member who was a casu...

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Trigger-happy people are dangerous, guns shoot people and males get high on guns more than females. Police tried the careful approach to a guman in Aramoana and lost out. There has to be a better program for these lost boys sent away from home by the sleazy-peazy Australian government wanting to slide out of their failures to integrate people. We are much the same here, but we havent the option to pass the parcel. So lets have a sensible program, and give them something to ground the...

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:07 am, February 26th, 2021 - 5 comments It seems that the Springbok tour protests in 1981 had a deep and abiding effect on David Seymour, even though he would not be born until two years later. He was clearly affected by the experience or lack thereof and has clearly harboured a deeply felt opposition to apartheid ever since. But regrettably his deeply felt opposition to apartheid i...

An Aucklander who spent six minutes at a store where a Covid-19 case was working had to wait nearly eight hours on the phone to get advice from Healthline. Even if this item isnt correct in every detail it illustrates cracks in the Covid management policy widening. Are front-line workers being properly paid and rested? Are investigators really on top of their job keeping up with the urgency needed, that was shown earlier on? NZ cant afford to be complacent. Recently one student was pho...

Taylor rose through the ranks at Salesforce extremely quickly. He joined the company in 2016, when it acquired his word processing startup Quip and reported directly to Benioff right away, which is rare for startup CEOs post-acquisition. Soon after, in 2017, Taylor made the leap to the C-suite as the president and chief product officer of Salesforce, before his latest promotion to COO in December 2019.  Prior to Quip, Taylor was Facebooks chief technology officer and helped lead the company th...