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Field hospital needed for drunken London corporates

A field hospital has been set up in the heart of London's financial district to treat blind-drunk corporate revellers.

The fair cop

The festive season is a time of excess. But as the country’s top traffic officer Paula Rose tells Alan Perrott, there is little cheer in counting its cost.

Firefighters contain spill in Kawerau

Inquiry into flight training as collisions soar

Pike River to present plan to Govt on Wednesday

Crushed in body, but not spirit

She's lucky to be alive, but 12-year-old Jacqueline Wyatt will have to learn to walk again.

Oil well inspector too busy: report

NZ has just one inspector to oversee safety in its oil exploration industry.

Three killed in weekend crashes

Three people have died on the roads so far this weekend in crashes near Wellsford, in the Far North and in west Auckland.

Pike River: Gas levels promising

Gas readings have been promising at the Pike River Coal mine since an Australian generator began pumping nitrogen into the mine yesterday to help cool the environment inside.

Mates pay tribute to motorcyclist

Tragedy on an ordinary day

Family members of the cyclists killed by a driver in Morrinsville just over a month ago share their stories of that fateful day.

Death crash driver jailed for three years

Drink drive victim had beaten cancer

A 55-year-old woman had just beaten the cancer she had battled for 10 years when a teen, nearly five times over the youth drink driving limit, crossed the centre line and smashed into her car. He was jailed today.

Police breached pursuit policy - IPCA

Multiple breaches of police policy have been found in a pursuit where an officer was hit and seriously wounded by a drug-affected fleeing offender. The IPCA found a pursuing officer ignored two orders to abandon the chase.

Police cleared over triple fatal crash

Court rules ACC liable despite 'degeneration'

Booze suspected in teen's car death

Witnesses to a fatal car crash in Auckland's Mission Bay heard a survivor scream, 'Bro, I told you not to speed'.

Teen girl dies in alcohol-fuelled road crash

An alcohol-fuelled Auckland road crash early this morning has left a teenage girl dead and three in shock.