NZ@Noon: Sex shop stir and a 'zipper kid'

Pleasure Dome shop in Guyton Street.

Wanganui locals upset by a sex shop, and a "zipper kid" who wants to make a difference in Hawke's Bay are just two of the stories making headlines around the regions today.

The new Wanganui sex shop has created a stir with locals after putting up signs directing customers to its back door.

A Hawke's Bay "zipper kid" is taking to the streets to raise funds for kids in the same situation.

Six bottlenose dolphins have been ushered out of a Northland estuary after grounding while chasing fish.

A bushy-bearded man with a big heart has become the face of "Decembeard" in the Bay of Plenty.

A Masterton landowner is campaigning to correct a wrongly-spelled road sign pointing the way to his ancestral home.

A Rotorua production house has taken out a top award.

And finally, a Far North charity has baldly gone where no one has gone before in the pursuit of charity.