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Report from RNZ The father of a Wellington club rugby player was attacked and players subjected to “repeated vile racial slurs” by another club’s supporters before a fight broke out after a match on Saturday, according to Marist St Pats chairman Rob Evans. The match between MSP and Old Boys University clubs at Wellington College was marred by a brawl in the final minutes, which Evans said involved players and spectators. Wellington Rugby is investigating the brawl, which Evans said invol...

Photo: © Photosport Ltd 2010 www.photosport.nz The match between MSP and Old Boys University clubs at Wellington College on Saturday was marred by a brawl in the final minutes, which Evans said involved players and spectators. Wellington Rugby is investigating the incident, which Evans said involved allegations of racial and physical abuse towards its players by OBU supporters and ex-players. "It is clear some of our players became upset following repeated, vile racial slurs and the attack on ...

Xytech Systems Continues to Grow Post ScheduALL Acquisition, Names Rob Evans and Linda Staudenmaier to Key Roles USA – Xytech has announced the appointments of Rob Evans to the role of product manager for broadcast and transmission products and Linda Staudenmaier to the role of director of professional services for ScheduALL users. These two key appointments follow the closing of Xytech’s acquisition of ScheduALL from Net Insight last month. Both Staudenmaier and Evans appointments are effe...

Supplied Nelson Airports board and senior management are unanimously against the holding company being proposed by Port Nelson and the Tasman and Nelson councils. Port Nelson is backing a proposed merger with Nelson Airport, saying recent difficulties culminating in the departure of the airport chief executive could have been avoided with a “stronger corporate background”. However, the airport chairman said neither the port nor Nelson City Council staff had any experience to assess the det...

Swinley Forest fire lasted seven days. He said deer should have been able to flee but some creatures may have been less lucky, including dragonflies, ground-nesting birds, adders, lizards, slow worms, frogs and toads. Mr Hazlitt added: “Its clearly tremendously devastating. The place will recover - its seen fires before - but in the short term, its going to be a very different landscape and its going to curtail some of the activities that the public enjoy and its going to have a sever...

Portland’s hard-won identity as a food city is here to stay An abundance of local food, eager diners and ambitious chefs built the citys restaurant scene, and theyre not going anywhere. Share Bernard Cabrera of Portland warms his hands by a fire in the Oxbow beer garden in Portland on a Friday evening in early February. He and his wife, Jennifer Wolcott, were enjoying dinner at the brewery. They love Portlands food scene and are hopeful it will survive the pandemic. "I have faith, seeing the...

Paul Lipscombe April 29, 2021 The line-up has been unveiled as the CMA conducts its regulatory review ahead of expected merger The proposed executive line-up from the Virgin Media and O2 merger has been announced, with Virgin Media chief executive Lutz Schu?ler named as CEO. It comes as the £31 million merger was provisionally cleared by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) earlier this month. The joint 50-50 venture will combine O2’s 34 million mobile customers and Virgin Media’s 5...

On Middle Street, a culinary hub embodies an industry under siege A microcosm of the Portland food scene, the block of restaurants made bold decisions and banded together to stay in business. Share Middle Street, between Franklin Street and India Street, is a culinary hotspot in a city with a national reputation for food and drink. The owners of many of the restaurants there have collaborated to help one another weather the pandemic. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer This is the second of five pa...

Meteorologist Skot Covert joins THV11 team full-time THV11 announced this week that Meteorologist Skot Covert will officially join the Wake Up Central and THV11 Weather teams full-time. Author: Jessica Amis Updated: 12:10 PM CST March 4, 2021 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – THV11 announced this week that Meteorologist Skot Covert will officially join the Wake Up Central and THV11 Weather teams full-time. Before joining the THV11 team in early 2020 on a part-time ba...

Industrial-levels of police infiltration of progressive campaign groups began during anti-Vietnam war movement in 1968 Metropolitan Police admits for the first time to Declassified that it spied for MI5 Justice campaigns led by families of people killed in police custody were a particular target of so-called “spycops”. The victims were mostly black men Undercover police spied on Labour politicians and nearly every group to party’s left Some women, who were tricked into romantic relationsh...