What’s it like when voters boot you out of office and you have hours to clean out your desk? Roy Pilott talks to former mayor Jim Mylchreest about life after politics. Jim Mylchreest says central…
What’s it like when voters boot you out of office and you have hours to clean out your desk? Roy Pilott talks to former mayor Jim Mylchreest about life after politics. Jim Mylchreest says central…
Cyclone Gabrielle has certainly hit the country with force. I know that many of you were affected directly, locally with fallen trees, power outages and slips or indirectly having friends or family displaced elsewhere in…
I’m not sure about this. It has been reported that John Cleese and his daughter Camilla are working on a ‘reboot’ of Fawlty Towers. Big shoes to fill, even if they were your own. Consistently…
As I did some background reading before writing a column on the subject of capital gains taxes (CGT) I came across two pieces of information that surprised me. First, the way the political debate on…
JACK ‘JOHN’ WATSON: 19.12.1941 – 4.1.2023 New Zealand’s polo playing community lost one of its finest sons when Cambridge-born John ‘Jack’ Watson died last month. For the past 34 years, he filled vital management roles…
Taupō MP Louise Upston says the choice of a roundabout as a cheaper option for the hazardous State Highway 1 – Piarere intersection was an example of Labour’s lack of forward planning and wasteful spend….
Eight Cambridge “stars” are preparing for their rock ‘n’ roll dance debut as part of a fundraising event for Cambridge Community House and Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari. The have been recruited by the Cambridge Cruisers Rock…
A local company with historic connections to Hastings is stepping up to help Hawke’s Bay residents affected by Cyclone Gabrielle. The Ross brothers of Cambridge’s C & R Developments have started collecting donations for those…
New Zealand “doesn’t know what’s about to hit it”, says Cambridge couple Selina and Emma Oliver, ahead of the world’s first FIFA Women’s World Cup Play-Off Tournament games tonight. “I don’t think people realise just…
“Approximately 50 per cent of mental health conditions start before a person turns 12 years old and one in four New Zealand children will experience a mental health issue before the age of 18,” –…
