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Owner Jan Mitchell with prize-winning donkey Pumpkin

Not a patch on Pumpkin

Pablo Collier, known as Pumpkin, was the donkey of the day at the Donkey and Mule Society's North Island Show at Timona Park, Feilding, yesterday.

Daring cliff-face rescue saves pair

By LEE MATTHEWS - The Manawatu Standard

A tiny ledge on a steep slip and a calm day saved the lives of two hunters airlifted to safety out of the Ruahine Range by The Square Trust Rescue Helicopter crew.

Property values on the rise

By LEE MATTHEWS - The Manawatu Standard

Property values have gone up 5.6 per cent in Palmerston North, compared with the same time last year.

Professor: Education standards fail pupils

By MARIKA HILL - The Manawatu Standard

A Palmerston North professor has blasted the Government's national standards policy, but academics are divided on whether the policy will help lift students' performance.

Builders pay back with fales

By JILL GALLOWAY - The Manawatu Standard

About 25 builders gathered yesterday to partly pre-build houses for Samoan tsunami victims who lost everything in the September disaster.

That's the trick

American juggler Dave Kha The National Juggling Convention, which attracted  more than 100 jugglers, street performers and unicyclists, plus dozens of others giving it a go, was held in perfect weather at the Levin Show Grounds.

Warning against sky lanterns

Palmerston North City Council is urging residents not to use sky lanterns for celebrations this summer because they can blow away and cause fires.

Five years for rape

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Action at Turakina

The annual Turakina Highland Games had some strong levels of competition with competitors coming from all over the North Island to take part during the weekend.

Free lunch for city teens

Teens may have caused some trouble in Palmerston North over the summer holidays, but all their discretions were forgotten over a free feed of fish and chips in The Square.

Croquet results

Choral Society update

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Croquet

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Golf Croquet Interclub Competition - Week 1

Youngheart drop way down table

Youngheart Manawatu no longer have their New Zealand Football Championship playoff ambitions in their own hands.

Horgan and Ellery to clash in quarterfinals

Manawatu representatives Pat Horgan and Ross Ellery are the only name players left to fight for the centre singles title at Terrace End at the weekend.

Heroics have the Hawke Cup in reach

Joblin brothers more than flag racers

Hugh Pinfold gets in some kite surfing at Foxton Beach

Blowing the the wind

Former Winter Olympic snowboarding coach Olly Brunton says kite sports are going to be a major player on the New Zealand sporting landscape in years to come.

Flying new flag a step forward

Waitangi Day passed with little more than a whimper this year, partly because it fell on a Saturday, and partly because the simmering political tensions that have boiled over in the past have cooled somewhat.

Not much 'closure' for the Pike family

You often hear the word "closure" at the end of high-profile court cases. At the sentencing phase of the justice system, victims' families and friends are often asked the question.

Head-scratching suppression

Trust back doing what it does best

Michael Cummings

Open justice gets thrown aside

If there were any lingering doubts that the guidelines for suppressing names in this country needed strengthening, the case detailed in today's Manawatu Standard should shatter them.

Coal deal challenges pledge

Prime Minister John Key's insistence that New Zealand can close an income gap with Australia has been dealt a further blow, with the signing of an $85 billion deal to export coal to China.

Deutsche eyes NZ's Craigs Investments

Global giant Deutsche Bank is understood to be eyeing a slice of local share broking firm Craigs Investment Partners.

Warehouse seeks to raise $100m

NZX slips at open

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Agriculture outlook positive

Rabobank says New Zealand agriculture should benefit from continuing global economic recovery this year.

Vet scheme expansion

A new wider cash bonus for veterinary graduates, who work with farm animals, could make rural practice more inviting.

Weather hits shearing

It's meant the season has been a stop-start affair, while the sale of wool only covers the costs of shearing.

All that water is just gold

New kid on the organic block

It's flystrike season again

The continuing wet and warm weather is the perfect storm for flystrike, and it is likely to be having an impact on lambs in the region, says farm advisor Garry Massicks from Feilding-based Stantiall and Keeling.

Labour's man gets around

Iain Lees-Galloway is always up for a good cause, Grant Miller writes.

A cut above

Gabrielle Bundy-Cooke is a bundle of energy and hairdressing expertise. Emma Goodwin asks what makes her tick.

Bicycle bonanza

Terrors of the kitchen

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Making a difference with youth

Senior Constable Bob Filbee has been educating school students on safety for the past 18 years and was awarded a Queen's Service Medal in the New Year Honours. Marika Hill delves into his life outside the police force.

Organic festival
Organic mixing

it's a weekend of mind, body and spirit renewal at the 10th Organic River Festival.

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Trio through to uni

There was shock and disappointment for a Feilding trio receiving their NCEA results.

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Bangladeshis arrive

Bangladesh are ready for their cricket matches at Fitzherbert Park.

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