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Million-dollar facelift
Tue, Mar 03, 15 • Wynsley Wrigley
WORK began on the long-awaited one-kilometre Waikanae to Midway walkway this morning...

Family ‘humbled’ by all the support
THE family of Malaysian man Kuan Loon Loh say they have been “very humbled” by the support they received in the wake of the tragic drowning of their...

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NZ accolade for Whinray Eco Trust 3 Mar, 2015 CONSERVATION work by Motu and Gisborne volunteers at Whinray Reserve was celebrated in a presentation to Whinray Eco Trust volunteer Steve Sawyer at...
Summer has promise of more fine weather 3 Mar, 2015 - Roger Handford THE sunshine yesterday signalled that summer is not over yet and more of the same is on the way...
Dry continuing into autumn a worry for region 3 Mar, 2015 WORRIES about a dry autumn have been raised, with February falling well short of its usual rainfall and the latest Niwa outlook for drier-than-usual...

NZ accolade for Whinray Eco Trust

3 Mar, 2015

CONSERVATION work by Motu and Gisborne volunteers at Whinray Reserve was celebrated in a presentation to Whinray Eco Trust volunteer Steve Sawyer at...

Summer has promise of more fine weather

3 Mar, 2015 - Roger Handford

THE sunshine yesterday signalled that summer is not over yet and more of the same is on the way...

Dry continuing into autumn a worry for region

3 Mar, 2015

WORRIES about a dry autumn have been raised, with February falling well short of its usual rainfall and the latest Niwa outlook for drier-than-usual...

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Fiji in his blood but ‘it’s NZ for me’ 3 Mar, 2015 - John Hill RUGBY - ISAIA Walker-Leawere would love to follow in the footsteps of father Kele and become a professional rugby player . .. . except the Gisborne...
NZ teams’ title to Gisborne Gladiators 2 Mar, 2015 SPEEDWAY - THE Gladiators pulled off one of the most sensational results in Gisborne Speedway Club’s history on Saturday when they won the New...
We are . . . LOYAL 27 Feb, 2015 Ian Loffler, (pictured), has been with OBR since 2001 while his good friend Craig Christophers, (pictured), joined the club in 1998 ...

Fiji in his blood but ‘it’s NZ for me’

3 Mar, 2015 - John Hill

RUGBY - ISAIA Walker-Leawere would love to follow in the footsteps of father Kele and become a professional rugby player . .. . except the Gisborne...

NZ teams’ title to Gisborne Gladiators

2 Mar, 2015

SPEEDWAY - THE Gladiators pulled off one of the most sensational results in Gisborne Speedway Club’s history on Saturday when they won the New...

We are . . . LOYAL

27 Feb, 2015

Ian Loffler, (pictured), has been with OBR since 2001 while his good friend Craig Christophers, (pictured), joined the club in 1998 ...

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A musical lifeline . . . 26 Feb, 2015 - Kristine Walsh MUSIC - VERA Cheffers is a rising star and she has the trophy to prove it . . . she last month won the Rising Star category of the Phoenix Classic...
Vibrations from Gisborne music contest continue 26 Feb, 2015 NEARLY three months after the last notes sounded at the 2014 Gisborne International Music Competition, the vibrations continue to ripple in the wider...
NZ ‘where it’s at’ for travelling muso 26 Feb, 2015 MUSIC - HE’S had a Sunday session in Nelson. Performed to penguins at Oamaru. Was welcomed by a crowd of hippies in Golden Bay. And played for more...

A musical lifeline . . .

26 Feb, 2015 - Kristine Walsh

MUSIC - VERA Cheffers is a rising star and she has the trophy to prove it . . . she last month won the Rising Star category of the Phoenix Classic...

Vibrations from Gisborne music contest continue

26 Feb, 2015

NEARLY three months after the last notes sounded at the 2014 Gisborne International Music Competition, the vibrations continue to ripple in the wider...

NZ ‘where it’s at’ for travelling muso

26 Feb, 2015

MUSIC - HE’S had a Sunday session in Nelson. Performed to penguins at Oamaru. Was welcomed by a crowd of hippies in Golden Bay. And played for more...

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Cracking on with cycle/walkways but debate to be had over priorities 3 Mar, 2015 - Jeremy Muir A debate at last week’s council meeting and the start of work on the Oneroa cycle and walkway from Waikanae to Midway has brought to the fore the...
Kane Williamson shows how to get out of a tricky situation 2 Mar, 2015 - John Jones John Key would have been one of the happiest members of a delirious 40,000-plus crowd at Eden Park on Saturday when Kane Williamson lofted a...
Hockey turf is about to be celebrated in perfect style 28 Feb, 2015 - Jeremy Muir Top-flight hockey is set to burst on to the Gisborne scene, in an almost unimaginable leap for local players who have had to keep using grass pitches...

Cracking on with cycle/walkways but debate to be had over priorities

3 Mar, 2015 - Jeremy Muir

A debate at last week’s council meeting and the start of work on the Oneroa cycle and walkway from Waikanae to Midway has brought to the fore the...

Kane Williamson shows how to get out of a tricky situation

2 Mar, 2015 - John Jones

John Key would have been one of the happiest members of a delirious 40,000-plus crowd at Eden Park on Saturday when Kane Williamson lofted a...

Hockey turf is about to be celebrated in perfect style

28 Feb, 2015 - Jeremy Muir

Top-flight hockey is set to burst on to the Gisborne scene, in an almost unimaginable leap for local players who have had to keep using grass pitches...

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Putin’s purposes not served 3 Mar, 2015 - Gwynne Dyer “EVERY time I call (my mother),” said Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov recently, “she gives me a talking-to: ‘When will you stop being rude...
Forgiving trespass against us 28 Feb, 2015 - Denis O’Reilly I AM a life member of the Black Power, and as you might expect, through that, I hold connections with Tumanako Tauhore who was recently shot dead at...
Greece loses first battle, EU wins 27 Feb, 2015 - Gwynne Dyer THE first round of the battle for the euro is over, and Germany has won. The whole European Union won, really, but the Germans set the strategy...

Putin’s purposes not served

3 Mar, 2015 - Gwynne Dyer

“EVERY time I call (my mother),” said Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov recently, “she gives me a talking-to: ‘When will you stop being rude...

Forgiving trespass against us

28 Feb, 2015 - Denis O’Reilly

I AM a life member of the Black Power, and as you might expect, through that, I hold connections with Tumanako Tauhore who was recently shot dead at...

Greece loses first battle, EU wins

27 Feb, 2015 - Gwynne Dyer

THE first round of the battle for the euro is over, and Germany has won. The whole European Union won, really, but the Germans set the strategy...

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Might will not stop ISIL barbarity 3 Mar, 2015 Re: ISIL’s barbarity needs to be stopped, Feb 28 letter...
Well done gladiators 3 Mar, 2015 Re: NZ teams’ title to Gisborne Gladiators, March 2 story...
More certainty required to plan 3 Mar, 2015 Re: Rising sea levels could hit coastal land values, Feb 23 story...

Might will not stop ISIL barbarity

3 Mar, 2015

Re: ISIL’s barbarity needs to be stopped, Feb 28 letter...

Well done gladiators

3 Mar, 2015

Re: NZ teams’ title to Gisborne Gladiators, March 2 story...

More certainty required to plan

3 Mar, 2015

Re: Rising sea levels could hit coastal land values, Feb 23 story...

Daring cliff-face rescue

Doneraille, Donneraille or Doneraile?

Searchers remain hopeful of recovering missing man

Man missing after jumping off Tolaga Bay Wharf

These women are always on track at relay for life

Riley Car Club Public Display

More than 1000 kids tackle Weet-Bix ‘try’

1. Man missing after jumping off Tolaga Bay Wharf
2. Man missing after jumping off Tolaga Bay Wharf
3. A winning edge comes at $10,000 a kilogram
4. BLACK STICKS ON OUR TURF
5. TOURIST MISSING AFTER WHARF JUMP
6. Rising sea levels could hit coastal land values
7. Sexual offender jailed for ‘reprehensible’ offending
8. These women are always on track at relay for life
9. Parata confirmed at head of Ngati Porou table
10. A ‘second chance’ offered him a time to change

In praise of coach tours . . . Justine Tyerman overcomes her fear of solo travel and revises her ideas about coach tours . . ...
Experiencing the Seven Wonders Sandra Walsh writes about visiting the seven wonders of the inland waterways of the UK. Husband Barry Teutenberg took the pictures...
Dazzled by dragons A dragon’s tail sideswiped me as I was standing inside the Taoist temple among hundreds of zealous worshippers with their offerings to the Goddess...

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Fri, Feb 13, 15

We’ve heard the rumours, but blues guitarist Adrian Athy won’t confirm just who will be his “special guest” for his set on the wharf . . .

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