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Mayor demands more detail on Rena

Fears the Rena wreck will be a festering environmental sore for 100 years has led to calls for the public to be better informed.

  • 11:16 AM Mar 12th
  • John Cousins

Thirteen near misses since Rena

A ship course plotted by a cadet almost led to a repeat of the Rena disaster before a harbour pilot spotted the mistake and had the vessel steered away from rocks.

  • 9:25 AM Mar 01st
  • Jamie Morton

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Slow recovery for car-fire kids

Slow recovery for car-fire kids

The young children critically burnt in a Gisborne car fire are making a slow recovery in an Auckland hospital. The brother and sister who were pulled from their mother's burning car parked outside an automotive shop are today in a "fair" condition at Middlemore Hospital, a spokeswoman for the Counties Manukau District Health Board says. It is an improvement for the siblings, who have previously been listed as critical while being closely monitored in the intensive care ward for more than two weeks. Manaia Namana-Rowe, 3, and her brother, 22-month-old Rious Namana-Rowe, suffered burns to 40…

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