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Covid 19 coronavirus: Sudden restrictions send weddings and funerals into disarray
15 Feb, 2021 12:05 AM
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Families and couples are being forced to postpone weddings and funerals due to the sudden level 2 and 3 restrictions. Photo / File
Families and couples are being forced to postpone weddings and funerals due to the sudden level 2 and 3 restrictions. Photo / File
Herald reporter based in HamiltonNikki.Preston@nzme.co.nz
About 80 Auckland funerals have been postponed today due to the change in Covid-19 alert levels with the Funeral Directors Association warning it puts a lot of last minute stress on grieving families.
Brides and grooms-to-be will also be anxiously faced with making the big call over whether to postpone their nuptials as the change in alert levels - which prevents gatherings of no more than 10 in Auckland and no more than 100 in the rest of the country - comes into force.
Red Fox Tavern cold case: We told her what had happened as gently as we could
11 Feb, 2021 03:30 AM
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Police recreation of Red Fox Tavern in 1987. Video / Supplied
The immediate aftermath of the sudden violent Red Fox Tavern hold-up, which became one of New Zealand s most infamous cold cases, has been revisited in court.
Mark Joseph Hoggart, 60, and a man with name suppression are on trial for the aggravated robbery and murder of Maramarua publican Christopher Bush in 1987.
Both of the accused men deny they were the ones that committed the crimes.
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One was armed with a sawn off double-barrelled shotgun and the other with a baseball bat.