No doubt there’ll be some readers who might recognise that the title for this article is the title for a 1972 hit song released by English progressive rock band ‘The Moody Blues’. In the early 70’s…
No doubt there’ll be some readers who might recognise that the title for this article is the title for a 1972 hit song released by English progressive rock band ‘The Moody Blues’. In the early 70’s…
All that effort, all those words, all the advertising, videos and social media posts and what do we have to show for it with a week to go? When The News went to press, election…
Our planet has the incredible ability to create new parts of itself. Volcanic eruptions occur when material from deep within the Earth rises and forms new landscapes. Islands are built this way, layer by layer,…
Some astonishing and valuable treasures have often been uncovered purely by chance. One such incident occurred near a village in Suffolk, England in 1992. Eric Lawes had recently retired and was gifted with a metal…
It was the last Waipā District Council meeting of the term yesterday, and the 284-page agenda offered a mix of controversy and some tantalising public-excluded items. Staff advised councillors not to approve a notice of…
Two significant items of economic news came out last week. Food price inflation had risen by 5 per cent over the past year. That would have surprised nobody. Gross domestic product fell by 0.9 per…
We publish two findings by the Media Council today. See: NZ Media Council upholds complaints They have ruled that I have not upheld their principles as editor of Good Local Media. In January I celebrated…
As we are midway through the school holidays, I wanted to highlight a concern around our tamariki (children). School community officers work with local schools to deliver programmes such as “Loves Me Not” and “Keeping…
“Tourists warned of volcano (in capital letters) alert in Spanish holiday hotspot as locals urged to leave homes” This was a headline published a few weeks ago by Great Britain News, and I want to…
Oddly enough, feathers of all sizes, colours and shapes often seem to come ‘across my path’ when I’m out and about. Some are ‘ordinary’, but sometimes I find an extraordinarily beautiful one, which I keep….
