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Palmerston North's grand Edwardian former post office is now a crumbling eyesore, and its owner has rebuffed council efforts to spruce it up.

WARWICK SMITH/Stuff The former High Flyers building is subject to a Dangerous Building notice, saying it's unfit for occupation. A one-time symbol of Edwardian civic pride is continuing to blight inner-city Palmerston North, and police worry that amid the smashed glass and decay the former High Flyers building is a home for undesirable activity. The former nightclub hot spot has been on a steady decline since High Flyers closed in 2013 and, then in 2017, the final tenant in the building, The Daily sports bar, moved from the property on the corner of The Square and Main St. Developments on t...

Owen Wildbore-Brumby cleaning up a miniature train engine at Victoria Esplanade in 2010. The wind spinners and candles have been taken away; the only markers of where a body once lay are the countless questions in the air concerning the circumstances of his death. The makeshift shrine for Owen Charles Wildbore-Brumby, who was found dead in a garden in Te Marae o Hine/The Square on February 16, has been carefully packed up and given to family, as police continue with pleas to the public for help solving the case. Despite the 40 year old’s body being found in the city’s busiest park, unde...