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Baking takes the cake

Cupcake love taps into lawyer's creative side

Wellingtonian Grace Brown traded a successful law career for cupcakes, recently launching her bakery, Sweet Bakery and Cakery, writes Sarah Catherall.
Cupcakes

Pair admit dog attack

12:15pm Two people have admitted their guilt in a savage dog attack in Otaki described by hospital staff as being more like a shark attack.

Snow hopes dashed for capital

Snow 12:17pm Wellington now looks set to dodge snow that will reach low levels in the South Island and may close the Desert Rd.

Prison postcard costs tutor job

11:16am A postcard cost a prison literacy tutor her job after she broke a "nothing in, nothing out" policy.

Surrogacy leave decision overturned

11:28am A decision to deny maternity leave to a woman who used a surrogate has been overturned.

Runway safety zone extensions urged

Wellington Airport needs to double its planned 300-metre runway extension, pilots say.

Warming people during the chill

Wellington City Mission, Michelle Branney, blankets Community services are bracing themselves for the coming cold snap, with more than 40 people sleeping rough in Wellington.

Chemical discharge 16 yrs on

A animal vaccine producer is continuing to release formaldehyde into the air 16 years after it agreed to switch to a less harmful alternative.

Push for app to track 111 callers

Delivery dilemma for NZ Post

Basin Reserve pavilion

Is Welly transport on the right track?

The Basin Flyover, a second Mt Vic tunnel, alternatives to light rail - what does the capital really need?

TV sport shake-up

Robin Van Persie The way Kiwis watch sport is set to change following Sky TV's loss of the broadcast rights for English football.

ANZ firm as punters gear up for fees fight

A David and Goliath battle is shaping up between ANZ Bank and thousands of its customers.

Investor taps into Tuatara Brewery

Bigger audience for WotWots

Diana Crossan

Ambulance appeals to small businesses

Wellington's $20 million-a-year free ambulance service is flashing its lights at thousands of local businesses in the hopes of attracting $200 sponsorships.

Dunne back, backing workers

Peter Dunne Peter Dunne returns to Parliament saying he will vote against National's strike-breaking bill.

Corporate manslaughter law call

Health and safety law change is needed to include a crime of corporate manslaughter, Labour says.

Current account deficit smaller

Nats' human rights record attacked

Paula Rebstock

Leak inquiry points at clerk

A key suspect in the inquiry into an MFAT leak was working at the time as a clerical assistant, it has been revealed.

Logic derails light rail

railway crossing The dream is over, for the time being anyway.

Making the best of Basin options

The Transport Agency will soon lodge an application for the Basin flyover project, writes councillor Andy Foster.

The sorrow of uncledom

Iran chooses moderate leader

Wellington Waterfront

Why flyover madness must stop

Elevated roads resting on concrete pillars are a seed bed for ugliness, urban blight and crime, writes Mary Varnham.

Game of Thrones loses plot

daenerys targaryen This be a new frontier for television drama: How much stabbing, mutilation, torture and treachery, to a background of snow and unwashed hair as far as the eye can see, can a single franchise sustain?

Making a musical matter

Getting the rights to stage a Wellington production of The Phantom of the Opera is not something its director Grant Meese has taken for granted, writes Jamie Small.

Review: Tokyo String Quartet

The king of the keyboards

pot

Metaphor for your head

I grew up with the wonky pots of my parents and their friends; the results of trips out to far flung potteries on Sunday outings or, worse, evening pottery classes.

My Fave Table: Margaret Hanson

Olives The name of our olive oil brand, Blue Earth, is tongue-in-cheek.

Baking takes the cake

Wellingtonian Grace Brown traded a successful law career for cupcakes, recently launching her bakery, Sweet Bakery and Cakery, writes Sarah Catherall.

Street art spurs choreographers

Fresh look for Hutt city

mucho mucho

A quiet slice of Cuba

A quiet spot on the corner of Courtenay Pl and Taranaki St, Mucho Mucho offers a little Cuban oasis in Wellington.

Lions always bring excitement

Lions rugby The excitement and the expectations around a British and Irish Lions tour are alive and well as we head into this weekend's first test in Brisbane. 

Crowe starting new chapter

There have been some dark days lately for Martin Crowe, but today couldn't be better.

Black Caps come under scrutiny

Black Caps: How they rated

Lewis Italiano

Merrick gambles on Italiano

Ernie Merrick has only seen Lewis Italiano play once, yet the Phoenix coach is confident that signing the young goalkeeper is no punt.

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