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Fine weather for Northland 3 minutes to read Mostly fine weather is expected across Northland throughout this week. Photo / John Stone Northern Advocate A mainly fine weather with isolated showers is in store for Northland for the rest of this week. Daytime temperatures will hover between 18C and 20C, dropping down to single digit in the evening and the westerlies will turn to southerlies this evening. Humidity will be around 65 per cent and weather conditions perfect for boaties, surfers, and swimmers. Surfer safe A female surfer initially thought to have been caught in a rip managed to saf...

Bay News: Country festival; Waipapa/Kerikeri new Lions club; Paihia Sea Scouts; Russell; Top Energy 21 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 8 minutes to read Brendan Duggan, one of the perennial headline acts performing at next month's Bay of Islands Country Rock Festival. Brendan Duggan, one of the perennial headline acts performing at next month's Bay of Islands Country Rock Festival. BAY NEWS BITES The Bay of Islands Country Rock Festival celebrates 32 years this year and it's still going strong. This year features over 40 musicians performing at multiple locations in Paihia and Russell. Topping th...

BBC News By Hugh Pym The formation of the NHS after World War Two should serve as a template for how healthcare is delivered post-Covid, the head of the NHS has said. Sir Simon Stevens says the demands of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic led the NHS to change rapidly and find new ways of working. "People have said this was the biggest health challenge since World War Two," he said. "It was in preparation for the Blitz in 1939 that hospitals started working together in the embryonic emergency service and that became the embryonic NHS. "You could argue that over the last 12 months the wa...

The Government's approval process "doesn't stand the sniff test", industry veteran says.

The Bay Dreams festival in 2020. Photo: Facebook / Bay Dreams British comedian Russell Howard is about to tour New Zealand and other acts allowed in through managed isolation this summer include drag queen RuPaul and musicians at Northern Bass in Mangawhai and the Bay Dreams festival. The vice-president of the Promoters Association, Gray Bartlett, said despite being an approved promoter with Immigration New Zealand, he was offered no explanation on why acts such as the Music of Cream and American speaker Michael Franzese were turned down. No-one had spelt out what the criteria were for appro...