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Quake pets

Quake shelters for pets planned

Wellington's quake plans includes setting up shelters at bowling clubs for lost or abandoned animals.

Asbestos plans not told to overseers

Burwood Resource Recovery Park Plans to dump asbestos were so closely guarded part owners did not know about them.

Personal details in IRD papers

IRD A man says the IRD sent him a document with so many private details about a person that he could impersonate them.

Bad report card for class-size increase

Hekia Parata "Treasury-based research" is being used to justify an increase in class sizes, a Christchurch principal says.

Special schools cautious on plan

A proposal to move Christchurch's special schools to mainstream sites has sparked a mixed reaction.

Crusade turns a bit sour

Linda Stewart's lime green and black bikini has walked off the fence in Travis Rd where she strung it in a campaign to keep the quake-crippled QE2 pools in the east.

Dog that bit cop impounded

A dog that attacked a policewoman during a routine callout yesterday has been impounded while its fate is decided.

Councillors back salt water pool

Injured farmer can still laugh after vein cut

Safety fence faces opposition

A DISPUTE over a fence needed to keep a child with Down syndrome safe at a Kaiapoi school is threatening to divide a popular community recreation area in half.

Arts centre for Hanmer?

THE HISTORIC Queen Mary hospital in Hanmer could become the equivalent of Christchurch's Arts Centre, says an advocate for the historic site.

After-school care rescued

Trade Aid founder can rest easy

Amberley's All Black?

BORN AND BRED "Amberley boy" Brodie Retallick could be on the cusp of becoming an All Black.

Carer mum pins hopes on being paid

Andrea Lamont Being paid to care for her disabled son would be a "marvellous help", Andrea Lamont says.

More pain for the chronically ill

A rise in prescription charges will hit Canterbury's most vulnerable, experts say.

16 babies hospitalised by pertussis

Leprosy group wins US$100,000 prize

Births increase in Rangiora

Rangiora Hospital's quaint 1920s buildings have been in demand since the February 2011 earthquake.

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Historic Plunket building could go

plunket The demolition of Lyttelton's historic Plunket building will be debated by city councillors today.

Safety not silly - Cera

A second level of rockfall protection on an already narrow Sumner road has residents bemoaning Ministry of Silly Works-like behaviour.

Councillors 'should call for halt'

Birth rate drop blamed on quakes

No alternative yet for court

The fate of Rangiora's district court remains unknown, after several alternative venues were deemed unsuitable.

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