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Northland news in brief: Scrub fire dealt with quickly, and historic site's open day 14 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Firefighter Paul O'Sullivan dampens down a fire in scrub on Tauroa St, Raumanga, yesterday morning. Photo / Tania Whyte Northern Advocate Whangārei firefighters were able to prevent a small bush fire from burning out of control in Raumanga yesterday morning. Within four minutes of receiving the emergency call at 8.20am two fire crews were at the scene of the 10 by five metre burn on Tauroa St in Raumanga. Whangārei station officer Rhys Wirihana said someone had kindl...

Burglaries go hand in hand. >> reporter: investigators believed that kay was beaten at her home in a narrow window of time between 7:10am and 7:20am that morning. but michael said he didn't arrive at the scene until 8:30. and said he had an alibi for the time before that. he'd been hanging out, he said, with a friend named anthony. >> reporter: what's the story he tells you about that day? >> we pull -- we pull anthony in and we -- we interview him and -- and anthony's, he's a character. he -- he's pretty lively. he's very talkative. >> he hadn't had time to talk to michael. we knew michael ha...

And his past history of drugs. and you know, drugs and burglaries go hand in hand. >> reporter: investigators believed that kay was beaten at her home in a narrow window of time between 7:10am and 7:20am that morning. but michael said he didn't arrive at the scene until 8:30. and said he had an alibi for the time before that. he'd been hanging out, he said, with a friend named anthony. >> reporter: what's the story he tells you about that day? >> we pull -- we pull anthony in and we -- we interview him and -- and anthony's, he's a character. he -- he's pretty lively. he's very talkative. >> he...

Time between 7:10am and 7:20am that morning. but michael said he didn't arrive at the scene until 8:30. and said he had an alibi for the time before that. he'd been hanging out, he said, with a friend named anthony. >> reporter: what's the story he tells you about that day? >> we pull -- we pull anthony in and we -- we interview him and -- and anthony's, he's a character. he -- he's pretty lively. he's very talkative. >> he hadn't had time to talk to michael. we knew michael hadn't talked to him. >> reporter: so you got two unvarnished stories, this might work out. they haven't had a chance to...

Time between 7:10am and 7:20am that morning. but michael said he didn't arrive at the scene until 8:30. and said he had an alibi for the time before that. he'd been hanging out, he said, with a friend named anthony. >> reporter: what's the story he tells you about that day? >> we pull -- we pull anthony in and we -- we interview him and -- and anthony's, he's a character. he -- he's pretty lively. he's very talkative. >> he hadn't had time to talk to michael. we knew michael hadn't talked to him. >> reporter: so you got two unvarnished stories, this might work out. they haven't had a chance to...