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Boyd Klap says the world could still learn a lot from the story of Anne Frank.

Why is a minority still threatened by the use of the Māori language?

Witt’s newly-appointed deputy chief executive is looking forward to seeing Māori students succeeding.

Meet the Bears A BBC World Nature production narrated by none other than Hugh Bonneville, Mr Henry Brown of Paddington fame, this hour-long look at the state of bears in our current world was what I needed to see this week. Take note, parents: this documentary could help with any number of future school projects, and (welcome spoiler) nothing dies. Filming all eight* species of bear in the world, we vicariously live life as a bear, from curious cub to stroppy adolescent, right through to fully grown and wanting to start families of our own. The footage is gorgeous, hilarious, and, at time...

In one instance a ladder was used to reach the signage at a Paraparaumu shopping area, while another shot shows a woman being lifted on a man’s shoulders to remedy another sign. “There’s just so many places without...”, one woman says to the camera, while another says “I think we’ve seen three that have the macron.” It finishes with a call to arms urging others in towns without macrons to “get out your tape and correct these names”. The video had received nearly 30,000 views by Thursday afternoon. ROSA WOODS/STUFF Kāpiti Coast District Council adopted the macron in 201...