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Leamington and Tokoroa doctor Fred Simpson self-publishes second novel 24 Feb, 2021 06:25 PM 5 minutes to read Fred Simpson and his "co-writer", cat Henry. Photo / Danielle Zollickhofer Leamington and long-time Tokoroa GP Fred Simpson is known to many as their family doctor, but outside medicine he is just as passionate about writing - both poetry and prose. Still working part-time as a doctor, Fred has just self-published his second novel. The Sunflower and the Sparrow is a comic drama that follows the lives of four stalled New Zealand characters as they intersect and influence each other in...

JOHN BISSET/Stuff Linda Collins is sharing her grief at losing her 17-year-old daughter to suicide to help prevent similar deaths. An Otago-based author who lost her teenage daughter to suicide urges parents “don’t be fobbed off, keep pushing” when their child appears to be struggling. One morning, author Linda Collins went to wake her daughter Victora McLeod for school to find an empty bed. Police handed over her beloved child’s laptop months later, and she discovered the 17-year-old had been grappling with suicidal impulses for years. “My daughter’s death was preventable and I...

Santas turn up to support museum Glenda Peake with some of the many Santas on display. An abundance of Santa Claus figures in the Warkworth Museum’s Christmas collections persuaded museum volunteers they would make a perfect window display. Accordingly,  more than 100 Santas are appearing this month in the window of Warworth’s Paper Plus as part of a museum profile-raising exercise. Santas appear among other museum toys such as prams, trikes and trucks, dating from around the 1950s. Volunteer Glenda Peake says in addition to those in the museum collection, volunteers sourced Santas from ...

I imagine that's what he's going to do, when he goes up and -- goes up and talks to the congress about the main principles coming out of the report, it's going to be a piece of paper plus. the justice department spokeswoman said that piece of paper would be made public. so he's got to make sure that that piece of paper cone sides, it does not twist or tilt the facts. it's not very selective. because eventually this report is likely to come out, one way or the other. s if he's seen now as tilting. i think it would totally undermine him. >> we talked about how this would come out. there's not a ...

Yesterday we told you about fox reporter jana winter facing six months in jail for refusing to name who tipped her off about a notebook aurora movie theater shooting suspect sent his psychiatrist before the shooting. sources said the notebook detailed how holmes planned to, quote, kill people before the theater attack. a colorado judge delayed a ruling on whether to order winter to testify yesterday. he first wants to know if the notebook will even be used in holmes' trial. remember the good old days when you could press your textbook not to tattle on you? the "new york times" reports texas a&...