You beauty!

It's official - Rotorua is the most beautiful city in New Zealand.
And news Rotorua has again cleaned up in the Most Beautiful City awards has come as no surprise to those who help keep the place looking great.
It's the fourth time Rotorua has won the title, run by the Keep New Zealand Beautiful organisation. It was up against cities all around the country with populations over 20,000.
Sunset Primary School students are among the thousands of people who do their best to make sure Rotorua is as attractive as it can be by planting trees in Pullar Park and picking up rubbish at Sulphur Pt as well as other areas in and around their school on Sunset Rd.
Alvaretta Foster, 8, and Alec Poi, 8, said they did a lot of work to beautify the city and so did many others.
Since Rotorua has now won the title four times - in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006 - both Alvaretta and Alec believe New Zealand's other centres can look to us for some direction.
"People will look at us and join in," Alec said.

Keep Rotorua Beautiful co-ordinator Christine Findon said that as well as the top award, given at the annual Keep New Zealand Beautiful Conference on Saturday, Rotorua also gets $1000, which will be used for Keep Rotorua Beautiful projects.
Mrs Findon nominated the city in a report to Keep New Zealand Beautiful.
Rotorua was judged on the report's presentation, range of activities, public involvement, objectives, presentation to community groups, cost-benefit studies and litter reduction through projects.
She said one of the reasons Rotorua gained the award was because of all the support the committee had in the city.
Schools like Sunset Primary School and other individuals and organisations did "regular clean-ups".
"It's their input that helped us win this award. It's all the people who helped with litter pick-ups, who helped out with graffiti eradication and there are numerous groups involved from school children through to retirees and service groups," she said.
Mrs Findon was happy about the recognition, calling it the highlight of her year and believes people should be doing their best to make sure the city can retain it in years to come.
"This award should be telling the people of Rotorua that what we've got here is something really special," she said.
Rotorua District Council's parks asset manager Walter Miller and his team plan what the public gardens in Rotorua will look like before Castlecorp implements the designs.
Mr Miller was pleased with the news of the award.
"We're pretty rapt about it".
However, while he acknowledged that the gardens played a role in Rotorua's beautification, he said it wasn't the only thing to be proud of.
"It's not just the gardens that make it the best city, it's other things as well like things the community does," Mr Miller said.
Rotorua mayor Kevin Winters described the recognition as incredible news.
"It's testament to the attitude of the overwhelming majority of people in our community, to many volunteers and to the hard working team at the Rotorua District Council. Clearly the passion these people have for Rotorua is an inspiration and the envy of other cities around the country."
Meanwhile, Rotorua can also boast some of the best public toilets in New Zealand.
Mrs Findon submitted the Pukuatua St public toilets, which she called the Pukuatua St Palace, for the Best Loo competition, and they placed second after those in a Wairarapa park.
Keep Rotorua Beautiful was also given a Special Award, which recognised it as one of the stalwarts of Keep New Zealand Beautiful.