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A recently retired intensive care specialist is calling for Health Minister Shane Reti's resignation over the government's backtrack on smokefree legislation. The National-led government wants to scrap the legislation, which would have reduced the number of stores able to sell cigarettes to around 600 nationwide, limit the strength of nicotine, and make it illegal to sell tobacco to anyone born after 2009. But Dr Stephen Streat, who was also the clinical director of Organ Donation New Ze...

Realm Of Flowers, back from the brink

Master Shuhood is winless after seven attempts at 2400m, Ponte Pietra races over the staying distance for the first time.

It is December already. We head back to Rosehill for a promising card. It is not long until I reset the numbers at the end of 2021 and I have some catching up to do. With rain due on Saturday, we should stay in the soft range at worst considering the improvement the track has […]