Barbara Mckelvie standing in front of the billboard she made an official complaint about. Photo / Duncan Brown
Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include a media watchdog dismissing a complaint of swearing on a billboard and a couple who had an eerie premonition before winning lotto.
When Eskdale woman Barbara McKelvie saw a billboard reading "Mate, I won't piss in your wetsuit," she thought
href="http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/offending-sign-to-stay/1737812/" target="_blank">"enough is enough."
The Hokitika couple who won $15.7 million in Lotto Powerball apparently had a "strange premonition" they would win.
After Alanna Clare was appointed Northland Rugby Union's referee administrator, some of the lads at a Northland rugby association distributed a photo of her in a bikini that they lifted off Facebook along with some sexist commentary.
There's an epidemic of scooter thefts in Western Bay of Plenty.
