A vehicle smashed into the window of a retail store in Eruera St yesterday. Photo / Ben Fraser
A vehicle smashed into the window of a retail store in Eruera St yesterday. Photo / Ben Fraser
Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include a car crashes through a shop window and two women are vilified on Facebook after posting evidence showing the removal of memorial crosses.
Two womenwho took 15 white crosses from a war memorial site in Waipawa were "vilified" on Facebook after posting photos and a video of themselves in the act of stealing them.
A local farmer helped keep a digger operator alive while he lay critically injured and trapped in his excavator for more than an hour, after it rolled 10-15m down a bank.
The $7.5 million spent on improving State Highway 10 through Bulls Gorge would have been better used to flood-proof Far North roads which regularly disappear under water, Mayor Wayne Brown says.
For the last six years, locals and tourists alike have been truly amazed when they step back in time at Retro Funk.
