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<i>Brian Rudman:</i> Arts centre meddlers forget names are an important link to the past

Wellington: Forgotten treasure

Diana Clement wanders off a Wellington street and into New Zealand's tumultuous history at the National Archives.

Fonteyn's footwork veiled plot

Case against Crewe cops 'too weak'

Police accused of framing Arthur Allan Thomas were never charged because the Govt's top legal adviser said there was not enough evidence.

Plans for heritage centre on Stewart Island

NZ family to auction Napoleon's hair

Fallen statues reveal secret of Easter Island's pathways

War taught true meaning of 'a fair go'

Direct line to voices of the past

Crown's tactics cost Tuhoe their Urewera heartland

<i>Tariana Turia</i>: Te Urewera and Tuhoe are inseparable

Sir Ed's house begins trek to new base

A small stencil used by Sir Edmund Hillary to mark crates for one of his expeditions is likely to go on show in the Hillary family home.

Washing up on the South Seas

Movie takes the Chinese out of Aussie war hero

Billy Sing, a Queenslander of Anglo-Chinese ancestry, earned himself the title of Australia's deadliest sniper during the Gallipoli campaign.

England: Taking in the sights of Robin's 'hood'

Amy Laughinghouse finds Nottingham abuzz over the outlaw's latest incarnation.

Symbolic march in Moscow