Rotorua Daily Post Year in Review: October 2020
7 Jan, 2021 10:00 PM
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Despite being in the midst of a battle with cancer, Brett Bosley, 61, was in the thick of the action. Photo / File
Despite being in the midst of a battle with cancer, Brett Bosley, 61, was in the thick of the action. Photo / File
Rotorua Daily Post
The Rotorua Daily Post is looking back at the stories of 2020. Here s what made headlines in October.
October 2
Rotorua tourism braced for a summer without cruise ship visitors, which added another blow to Rotorua s embattled tourism sector.
New Zealand s borders remained closed under Covid-19 restrictions. It was unknown when they would reopen to allow ports to welcome cruise ships again.
Under Currents (Nora Roberts),
Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty),
The Guardians (John Grisham),
Redemption (David Baldacci) and
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About 3.3 million books were issued across Christchurch City Council’s library network in the past 12 months. Well-known names lead the library waitlist, with Lee and Andrew Child’s
Sentinel the most requested, followed by chef Chelsea Winter’s
Supergood, Kiwi Rose Carlyle’s debut novel,
The Girl in the Mirror, and David Walliams’
The World’s Worst Parents. In the children’s section, J. K. Rowling’s
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is firmly on top, followed by
In a year like no other in recent memory, is it no surprise the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic was the most searched term on the internet?
It dominated the