Another tower view Peter Fulton of the Cambridge Water Tower Group puts forward his group’s case for retention of the water tower. Reading between the lines it seems that despite his claim that the tower’s…
Another tower view Peter Fulton of the Cambridge Water Tower Group puts forward his group’s case for retention of the water tower. Reading between the lines it seems that despite his claim that the tower’s…
I usually start with good catches, but those are just a fraction of the jobs that keep our staff busy. In the past seven days prior to writing, Cambridge police dealt with a bail breach,…
One of the best parts of my work with GeoTenerife in the Canary Islands is working with students. One who stood out immediately was Leah Gomm from the United Kingdom. Her bubbly personality made an…
“I’m still standing…” the Elton John hit sings volumes about our beloved Cambridge Water Tower and long may it continue. You may be curious about its fate, resting as it does, in the hands of…
I have written two columns previously on stories about what is happening in New Zealand that I would expect to see in a third world country but not here. As someone who worked in the…
Seventy-four years ago, Peter Ustinov starred in the cinema epic Quo Vadis. Literally translated as ‘where are you going’? Although for the historical purists the original alleged biblical utterance of the phrase would have sounded…
I was talking in the street one day to a young man who was a Hare Krishna ‘devotee’. He’d approached me when I smiled at him which I guess encouraged him to ask me if…
It’s been a busy week for mayoral candidates scrambling to secure one-on-one time with voters before voting papers arrive. Candidates’ Facebook pages – some virtually unused until now – have been brimming with posts featuring…
Number check Recently the future of regional councils has been raised and my immediate thoughts were that is only part of the question so I decided to find out just how the Waikato Regional Council…
Starting with a few good catches, last Wednesday, Cambridge Police executed a search warrant in Leamington in relation to a Ute that had been stolen from the Coromandel peninsula two weeks prior. The ute, and…
