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The council’s people and performance committee made a recommendation to keep Carran in the job. Cr Richard Lyon was supportive of retaining Carran, moving that the recommendation be accepted. “The recommendation has been thoroughly researched and democratically approached.” Lyon said Carran had been a strength in many ways and difficult decisions had been made. “I know there have been all sorts of undercurrents, but the reality is - it’s for our organisation to grow and grow and structured for the future. Naturally we can’t please everybody but that’s life.” MYTCHALL BRAN...

Piddington called for an explanation from Mackey for what he called the council ending up “in a mess” as it missed its statutory June 30 deadline for the adoption of the plan. Mackey said when they looked at the details in a final analysis, corporate activities as a group of activities was not in the draft. This had to be amended. Also, a cut in funding from Waka Kotaki NZ Transport Agency and the flood at the end of May complicated matters. A council staff report said addressing Audit NZ’s concerns had "required considerable work" restating each group of activities’ Funding Impact...

‘Devastating’ nuclear accident risks kept under wraps, The Ferret, Rob Edwards, July 4, 2021,  A ruling allowing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to keep nuclear safety problems secret has been condemned as a threat to democracy, with “devastating” accident risks. An information tribunal in London has rejected a bid to release reports about Trident nuclear bomb and submarine hazards on the Clyde because of fears about leaks to an increasingly “aggressive” Russia. But the secrecy has come under fierce fire from a former nuclear submarine commander and campaigners. They criticised ...

Work will proceed on Aorangi Park, the Aigantighe Art Gallery, and to enable development of the city hub, the Timaru District Council has decided.

By Press Association 2021 Lynda Rickard A woman who forged the will of a wealthy landowner before starving him to death to inherit a slice of his £3.5 million fortune has been jailed for life. Carer Lynda Rickard, 62, was found guilty of murdering former auctioneer’s clerk James Sootheran, known as Anthony, 59, at his property, High Havens Farm in the village of South Newington, Oxfordshire, in March 2014. She had been paid £47,000 a year to look after his elderly mother, Mary Sootheran, known as Joy, until her death, aged 92, in 20...