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Updated: February 22, 2021, 3:34 pm © Supplied A digital print from the artist Alessia Pelonzi depicting Gordon as John Weekes in The Terror. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Hit Ridley Scott show The Terror has revealed the north and north-east links with Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition in 1845. The Terror sets sail for BBC Two and iPlayer and centres on the disastrous attempt by the crews of HMS Ere...

Taranaki Chamber of Commerce chief executive Arun Chaudhari said he was delighted with the decision, particularly with multiple events coming up – including the Americarna festival of classic American cars, the Witt student graduation, which was expecting 1500 people. It was also good news for businesses – one hotelier had been fully booked for this week “and it dropped to 25 per cent on Sunday”, Chaudhari said. “They talked about losing about $20,000 for the week - just washed away.” But he warned against being complacent. “We’ve got to keep hammering: scan the QR code a...

Wellington Jazz Cooperative presents outstanding Kiwi jazz group The John Rae Trio. Expatriate Scots drummer Rae, a top-flight composer, musician and bandleader, will join forces for the WJC concert with vaunted saxophonist, flautist, and composer Lucien Johnson and double bass player Patrick Bleakley. Rae, Johnson and Bleakley were leaders and composers of The Troubles, a premier Kiwi jazz nonet that initially had been an earlier incarnation of the present trio. Rae recorded his first album at 16 alongside acclaimed saxophonist Tommy Smith and has since recorded over 80 albums as a leader an...

GLENN JEFFREY/Stuff Americarna organiser John Rae says the event will be held in March if it can't go ahead next week as planned. (file photo) Organisers of two Taranaki festivals have their fingers crossed the government will on Wednesday announce a return to Covid-19 alert level 1, allowing their events to go ahead as planned. Taranaki’s celebration of American muscle cars, Americarna 2021, is scheduled to start on Wednesday, February 24, and run through to Saturday, February 27, and has attracted more than 750 entrants from around the country. GLENN JEFFREY/Stuff Americarna organisers...

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s August, 1818, and two British naval ships are dodging icebergs in Baffin Bay on their mission to find the Northwest Passage. John Ross, commanding the HMS Isabella, and William Parry in the HMS Alexander are farther north along the western Greenland coast than any previous explorers. They assume this land of glaciers and stark mountains is uninhabited.  But they’re wrong.  They spy several figures running on a hill near shore. Ross assumes they’re shipwrecked sailors in need of rescue, and he steers the Isabella to get closer. Bu...