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Thursday, 1 July 2021, 9:51 am Going West Festival’s 26th season is dialing it up, offering four multi-media Saturday evening events featuring Aotearoa’s finest writers of prose, poetry and music once a month from August. Launching on Saturday 14 August, the richly layered new-format offers something for everyone with a love of reading and ideas. “Going West Festival is 25 years old this year. We want to demonstrate our commitment to the next quarter century with a fresh programming app...

Press Release – Going West Festival Going West Festival’s 26th season is dialing it up, offering four multi-media Saturday evening events featuring Aotearoa’s finest writers of prose, poetry and music once a month from August. Launching on Saturday 14 August, the richly layered new-format offers something for everyone with a love of reading and ideas. “Going West Festival is 25 years old this year. We want to demonstrate our commitment to the next quarter century with a fresh programmin...

Grace Millane: Supreme Court rejects killers appeal Newshub 15 hrs ago © Newshub. His application has been dismissed. The Supreme Court has dismissed Grace Millanes killers application to appeal his conviction for her murder. Jesse Kempson was found guilty in November 2019 of murdering the British backpacker in a central Auckland apartment after a date in December 2018. While he argued Millanes death was an accident during consensual rough sex, the jury decided otherwise. He was sentenced...

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Press Release – Titirangi Ratepayers and Residents Association The Titirangi Residents and Ratepayers Association are running a wine fundraiser with the Booster Wine Group to raise money to pay for the many expert witnesses we used at the recent 3 day hearing to oppose the Watercare Huia Water Treatment Plant being placed in Titirangi, in the Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area. Our case was very successful and resulted in the Council’s experts changing their minds and recommending to the Indep...

Article – Susan Botting – Local Democracy Reporter More than 20 million trees and other natives will be planted around New Zealands biggest harbour in the groundbreaking $200 million dollar Kaipara Moana Remediation project. Ruawai on the shores of Kaipara Harbour Alan Wilcox, a senior manager for … More than 20 million trees and other natives will be planted around New Zealand’s biggest harbour in the groundbreaking $200 million dollar Kaipara Moana Remediation project. Ruawai on the ...

Ruawai on the shores of Kaipara Harbour Alan Wilcox, a senior manager for the Kaipara Moana Remediation interim management unit, said planting the trees was the foundation of a new intergenerational approach. First plantings are planned this month. They will be the start of New Zealand’s biggest harbour restoration programme — across 6000 square kilometres of land with more than 8000km of waterways. Tame Te Rangi, chairman of the governing body Kaipara Moana Remediation joint committee, sai...

Murdered British backpacker Grace Millanes family backs new UK law banning rough sex defence 3 May, 2021 07:28 PM 3 minutes to read Almost every move made by Grace Millanes killer was tracked on CCTV. Video / Supplied NZ Herald The family of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane is backing the introduction of a new law that will see the ban of a rough sex defence being used for murder. The new law is set to come into effect in England and Wales this year. It comes just over two years after ...

As low as Ive seen: Aucklanders urged to continue saving water as shortage continues Newshub 3 hrs ago © Newshub. Watch: Aucklanders urged to continue saving water as shortage continues. New Zealands lack of rain is in no way helping Aucklands water shortage problem. Dams around the city are only around half-filled with some restrictions on use still in place, and Aucklanders are being urged to continue saving water. The bare land at a dam in Aucklands Waitakere Ranges shows just how dry t...

When John visited a few years ago, the water was overflowing. "It would be coming from over there and just flowing over the wall and trickling down, but with all of it trickling down it was quite a stream," he says. For locals who see it all the time, the change is also obvious. "Sad to see the low levels in it. I have to say certainly its as low as Ive seen it, ever," local Robyn says. Water restrictions began for Auckland last May to try to combat a historic drought. One year on, the city is ...