Your top 5 most read stories of the week, November 3

The Maersk Antares in port at Tauranga this week. Photo/Andrew Warner

1-Daughter attacked, mother intimidated: Circled 'like a pack of wolves'

A Bay mother says a group of girls who filmed themselves carrying out what she describes as a brutal attack on her daughter circled her "like a pack of wolves" when she confronted them about it.
Police are investigating two separate cases of groups of bullies attacking teenage girls in the city.

2-Family in tears after boy shot with BB gun at Tauranga Boys' College

A high school student was held down and shot in the leg with a BB gun by bullies who later joked about it on social media.

The Year 9 boy with mild Asperger Syndrome was also roughed up in Tauranga Boys' College toilets and "tormented" on the way home.

John and Gloria say their whole family has been affected by ongoing bullying of their grandson. Photo / Alan Gibson

3-Police name man who died in crash near Tauranga

The man who died in a two-car crash on State Highway 29 on Saturday night near Tauranga was Adrian Carlisle Hetet. The 43-year-old was from Tauranga.

4-$20 million cocaine bust in Tauranga is biggest seizure in NZ

Four men have been arrested after $20 million in cocaine was seized in Tauranga.
A five-month long inquiry by Customs and police uncovered 46kg of the drug - the largest single seizure of cocaine in New Zealand - at an address in Tauranga early this morning.

5-Woman rescued from 2.5m soak hole in Mount Maunganui

Firefighters have rescued a woman from a soak hole in Mount Maunganui this morning after the ground gave way beneath her.
The hole is about 2.5m deep and is located behind a block of shops in Commerce Lane.

A woman dropped into a 2.5m old soak hole and had to be rescued by firefighters. Photo/ John Borren