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Hail, heavy rain and strong winds ripped across the country from Canterbury to Wellington on Tuesday, taking roofs, powerlines and trees with them.

KEVIN STENT/Stuff Wellington-based illustrator Jem Yoshioka with a digital billboard at Lower Hutt’s Queensgate. The billboard features her art work, which was commissioned for the country's Covid-19 vaccination campaign. As the Government releases its next wave of public health messages around its Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, Kiwis are receiving art – along with immunisation information – in their mailboxes, and in their local shopping malls. The artworks illustrating messages of hope, freedom and life after the virus are appearing on pamphlets and billboards, flanked by the Covid-19 r...

The incident has had a lasting impact on Sarniak-Thomson who continues to suffer pain in her hip and now needs a walking stick to aid her mobility. “I’ve had to stop playing the organ at church because I can’t get up the stairs. I find it annoying because I used to enjoy it.” MONIQUE FORD / Fairfax NZ/Stuff Sarniak-Thomson said Stride owed a duty of care to its customers, and was disappointed by the ​company’s response. With another person being knocked down, it appeared nothing had been done to make the doors safer, she said. Sarniak-Thomson has learned to live with the disco...