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Police are appealing for witnesses after a 14-year-old was assaulted in Bell Block on Monday. A 14-year-old Taranaki boy is in a stable condition in hospital after being hit over the head with a weapon for his backpack. Taranaki detective Daniel Coomey said the teenager had been in the Mangati Rd car park, near Bell Block Beach, around 5.20pm on Monday when a vehicle approached him. The passenger of the car got out and tried to get his backpack off him. “They hit him over the head with a weapon,” Coomey said. “He was seriously assaulted and his bag stolen from him.”

Glenn Jeffrey/Stuff Liam Bishop behind the wheel of Paul Farquhar’s Kenworth mini truck replica at the Taranaki Truck Show at Hickford Park in Bell Block. It was a case of little and large at the Taranaki Truck Show. Liam Bishop was driving this Kenworth mini truck replica and taking passengers around some of the 128 full-sized versions on display at Hickford Park, Bell Block, on Sunday. Paul 'Ringo' Wilson, one of the organisers, estimated well over 5000 people visited the show, which was raising money for the Taranaki Community Rescue Helicopter. The Taranaki Truckers Group stages the ...

Holdom said the Taranaki Mayoral Forum, comprised of himself, Stratford mayor Neil Volzke, South Taranaki mayor Phil Nixon and Taranaki Regional Council chair David McLeod had written to Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency calling for actionand submitted on its regional transport plan, which he described as "pretty pathetic". After New Plymouth's 10-year plan is finalised later this year he believes the mayors will join him to “beat a path to Waka Kotahi’s head office and then the Beehive to look for solutions to the deterioration of our state highway network”. Andy Jackson/Stuff...

The spokesman said the target to restore power is four hours, so the back-up system had worked. In its draft long-term plan, the council has budgeted for an overflow storage tank that would prevent similar future incidents. The council did not alert news media of the spill, and neither did it post about it on Facebook. However, NPDC said it had followed standard procedure and notified key partners: iwi, the Taranaki District Health Board, and recreational users. Warning signs were also erected. Details were also posted in two places on the council’s website, including the homepage, wit...

Taranaki Cricket Association operations manager Travis Stewart said the damage had affected 25 metres of turf. “It's frustrating. It's not cheap to lay cricket wickets. ANDY JACKSON/Stuff A car has done burnouts ripping up the artificial cricket pitch. “It's needless, and I can't see it being a lot of fun driving over a field and skidding on cricket wickets.” Two junior games will have to be played elsewhere, and a senior game this weekend may have to be moved. Although the pitch will have to be replaced, Stewart said if they couldn't get a new one they were hoping to save money by...