Новости за 25.03.2016

News from NZ Police A 21-year-old Raumati man was killed yesterday afternoon while he was riding a longboard downhill on Maungakotutuku Road in Paraparaumu. At 5.45pm he was struck by a vehicle that was following him down the road. The 21 year old died at the scene. The serious crash unit was called and a […]

News from NZ Police Hawkes Bay Police are investigating damage to graves at the Mangaroa Cemetery, Mangaroa Road, Hastings. Just after 1:30 pm yesterday, visitors to the cemetery were upset to find that two graves had been damaged by a vehicle or vehicles that has been doing burnouts in the vicinity. Two gravestones have been […]

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Stats NZ reports: Net migration from Australia continued to rise, with a net gain of 1,600 migrants. This is the highest annual net gain of migrants from Australia since the September 1991 year and the fifth consecutive month to show an annual net gain. We all know that there has been a big change from […]

Press Release – New Zealand Institute of Architects City Talks: Chris Moller with Tommy Honey Grand Designs: Beyond the Camera City Gallery Wellington, Civic Square Monday 11 April, 6pm Free entry Can an imported reality TV model serve serious discussion about New Zealand architecture? This is one of the questions Tommy Honey will pose to […]

Radovan Karadžić managed to evade justice for a decade, and his trial took another decade but the 70 year old now has a 40 year jail sentence for his war crimes. One of the things he was found guilty of was genocide for the Srebrenica massacre. They aimed to kill “every able-bodied male” in the town […]

On Thursday the Commerce Commission gave Spark permission to buy 70 MHz of the 2300 MHz band from Craig Wireless and Whoosh. That’s a lot of bandwidth. It changes the balance of power in mobile spectrum holdings. It could change the broader economics of broadband in New Zealand. More fixed wireless broadband Spark says it […]

At first they sound not so good: Luxury supermarket chain Farro Fresh is docking the wages of checkout staff whose tills don’t tally. The posh food chain said the wage deduction policy cuts down on employee mistakes and deters theft. But unions insisted the practice is outdated with most of the big supermarket chains, fast food industry and banks steering clear […]

Stuff reports: The lawyer defending the prime surviving suspect for the November 13 Paris attacks said on Sunday he would sue a French prosecutor for divulging Salah Abdeslam’s private admission that he planned to blow himself up with fellow Islamic State militants. Speaking two days after Abdeslam was captured during a police raid in Brussels, […]

It’s been a few months since we last posted an update on what is currently the country’s single biggest transport project. Here are some of the recent updates.

The BBC reports: Chancellor George Osborne has used his Budget speech to say all schools in England will become academies and extend the school day. Schools must become academies by 2020 or have official plans to do so by 2022, he told MPs. … Mr Osborne said: “Providing schooling is the single most important thing […]