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Bill Millar

No need for screens, cameras

Bill Millar, a taxi driver in Otorohanga for 48 years, believes the Government should just leave him to do his job rather than looking at making him install security features.

'More babies' way to beat changes

By MARYANNE TWENTYMAN - Waikato Times

A Hamilton budget advisory expert is warning solo mothers may opt to have more children in order to avoid Government requirements to find work when their youngest child turns 6.

No cooking up a storm

By KARLA AKUHATA - Waikato Times

Marcus Gower loves cooking but is not allowed in the kitchen with anybody else, especially his wife Alice.

Bomb-joke man offered a break

By AARON LEAMAN and NICOLA BRENNAN - Waikato Times

A Gisborne man arrested at Hamilton International Airport yesterday for joking there was a bomb in his luggage may avoid conviction.

Thefts blamed on gang debts

By AARON LEAMAN - Waikato Times

A 33-year-old "career criminal" convicted of a series of Hamilton burglaries says his offending was driven by gang debts.

Eels well that ends well

Hunter Jacob Costello An Auckland hunter lost for three nights in bush near Benneydale resorted to eating raw eels to stave off hunger before being rescued.

Base jumper injured in 30m fall

A base jumper fell 30 metres down a cliff in Queenstown's Skippers Canyon today.

SPCA steps in on dog standoff

Site where body found viewed

Mystery patient treated in Haiti

Doctors in Haiti are treating a man said to have had been trapped for 28 days - but he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal.

Mum guilty of murdering 'bipolar' girl

A US woman has been convicted of second-degree murder over the 2006 death of her four-year-old daughter from an overdose of powerful psychotropic drugs.

Sri Lanka parliament dissolved

Avalanches kill at least 28

Cuba

Cuban woman has 125th birthday

Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.

Coromandel harbour polluted

People are being warned not to take shellfish or swim in parts of Coromandel Harbour after a leak was discovered at the Coromandel wastewater plant.

Polluting costs more than $13,000

Two firms have been slapped with more than $13,000 in fines after allowing sediment to flow into a stream while they built a passing lane near Te Kuiti last year.

Crafar family speaks out

Beachfront owners seek council action

Brown Teal ducks

Project to save teal a big success

A conservation project on the northern Coromandel Peninsula is being hailed as " far the world's most prolific recovery ever recorded for an endangered waterfowl species''.

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