Taking a look at some of the stories making the headlines around the regions today: A Far North beauty queen feels she has been duped by pageant organisers and a Whangarei primary school gets a very special visitor.
Last year Doubtless Bay woman Lonneke Botello was planning to travel toBerlin as New Zealand's finalist in the Queen of the World beauty pageant. Now she says the dream was a mirage, and she does not believe that she is the only pageant contestant who has been used.
A company in Hawke's Bay is calling for the public to report cases of vandalism on its work sites after safety barriers were disturbed on a Napier road, endangering the public.
