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A huge fountain erupted in Aro Valley sending torrents of water down Aro Street, as Wellington s pipe network s woes continue.
Wellington’s former mayors are calling the capital’s increasingly common sewage spills “embarrassing” and “a gross failure,” pointing to decades of under-investment in infrastructure and managerial incompetence. But they do not take any responsibility for that under-investment, and nor does current mayor Andy Foster, who has been on the council since 1992. Former mayors Justin Lester and Celia Wade-Brown, who led the city between 2010 and 2019, claimed councillors had been misled about the extent of the problems with the ageing pipe network.
Kiwi journalist Dan Wootton who broke Megxit story leaves The Sun
28 Jan, 2021 08:14 PM
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NZ Herald
New Zealand journalist Dan Wootton has revealed he is leaving his role as executive editor of The Sun.
Wootton, who broke the news Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were moving out of the UK and relinquishing their HRH titles, shared on Twitter that he is leaving the Sun for a new role at GB News and MailOnline.
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Wootton was at the centre of Hollywood star Johnny Depp s defamation case last year, winning the case brought against the Sun for his story labelling Depp a wife-beater in the headline. A British judge ruled Depp had abused his ex-wife Amber Heard after the explosive case.
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Wellington City councillor Rebecca Matthews has criticised a council staff member for suggesting the city could take a leaf out of San Francisco’s book to address its housing crisis. (File photo) “San Francisco is completely unaffordable for essential workers, and renters are in similar dire circumstances to here,” Matthews posted on Twitter. “Not my model for Wellington.” Matthews told
Stuff that both council staff and councillors needed to be “really careful” when commenting publicly about controversial housing proposals put forward for the city. Those proposals involve creating about 12,000 extra homes over the next 30 years, and removing demolition protection for many pre-1930s buildings.