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How you can help victims

I hope the school holidays are going well. I enjoyed a break away myself last week – we have definitely lucked out on the sunny winter weather for the first half of the holidays. In…

The rubber roundabout

13 July 2pm *Changed copy below to a new pedestrian crossing in Shakespeare Street, not Cook Street. 11 July 5am An innovative solution to slow traffic at a major roundabout so pedestrians and cyclists can…

Big turnout for night ride

There were plenty of reasons not to go on the two-hour long Te Awa Light Night ride on Saturday but 1500 people decided to go anyway. A glorious day developed quickly into a bitterly chilly…

Words matter

I am sitting in Tenerife, a volcanic island with a very volcanically active past, chatting with linguist Dr Hannah Little from the UK about how people perceive risk. A linguist specialises in how our use…

Vandals Came, saw, trashed

Another vandalism attack on one of Cambridge’s newest playgrounds will cost ratepayers thousands of dollars in repairs. Damage at the Terry Came Drive playground was discovered yesterday last week. An artistic wall wrap had been…

Both ends of the age issue

Over the recent weekend I was pleasantly involved with the celebrations of a good friend. The reason for the festivities being his 80th birthday. Being a long-time resident in a retirement village such an event…

Hautapu gets Colts final

Hautapu Colts will play Hamilton Marist in the Waikato Rugby Union final for the third year in a row and the game on Saturday will be a home one for the Cambridge youngsters. This follows…

Saved by the light

I’ve never forgotten the account of a fishing village on the coast of Cornwall, facing potential disaster years ago. Although well accustomed to the force of prevailing south westerly winds blowing in from the Atlantic…

And the cats came back

More than 2000 people competed or watched when the Hamilton Cat Club held its 75th anniversary show at the Tamahere Community centre last weekend. The event was moved from its previous home, Hamilton Gardens last…

Life sentence for Margaret

When onlookers walk away from the Cambridge Bowling Club in Thornton Road without signing up to be a member, Margaret Stott cops it from club members. “You let that one go,” they say to the…

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