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| Widespread damage after Greymouth Tornado ›› There is disbelief at the widespread damage caused by a tornado in Greymouth this afternoon. Several people are understood to have been injured after the twister ripped through the... |
| Blood tests confirm high levels of dioxin ›› Blood tests have confirmed that people who lived near a New Plymouth chemical plant have high levels... |
| Retired judge to review 'sick' police culture ›› Retired High Court judge Sir David Tompkins QC is to oversee an investigation into South Auckland's... |
| Prince winds up NZ tour ›› Prince Charles was welcomed to a primary school by young students in Auckland today before planting... |
| Bodies remain on mountain as poor weather persists ›› The bodies of an acclaimed climber and two tourists she was guiding in the Aoraki-Mt Cook National Park... |
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| West Coast more at risk of tornadoes than other parts of NZ ›› The West Coast is New Zealand's tornado "hotspot", meteorologists said today after one ripped through Greymouth. "The West Coast is probably the area that gets the most tornadoes,"... |
| • Dredging to begin for $30m city marina ›› |
| • Police confirm body is of missing soldier ›› |
| • Teachers call for NCEA overhaul ›› |
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| World News |
| South African miners rescued after 'exceptional' quake ›› STILFONTEIN, South Africa - Rescue teams have freed the last miners trapped in collapsed tunnels in a South African gold mine after an earthquake and recovered the body of a miner... |
| • Five die after boat capsizes off Papa New Guinea ›› |
| • IRA must disband, Britain and US insist ›› |
| • Iraq police find 41 bodies; minister attacked ›› |
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| Business |
| Petrol price rise likely to pay for oil reserves ›› Motorists could get socked with another petrol price rise to bring the country's oil reserves up to international obligations, an oil company has warned. The Government revealed... |
| • Free trade talks with China set to resume ›› |
| • US economy expanding with little inflation ›› |
| • Restaurant brands report solid result ›› |
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| Sport |
| Cricket: Marshall makes maiden test century ›› Hamish Marshall scored a century in just his third test to guide New Zealand to 265 for three at stumps on the first day of the first cricket test against Australia here today. Marshall... |
| • Netball: Williams called into Silver Ferns ›› |
| • Willis out of rugby for rest of 2005 ›› |
| • Soccer: Ronaldo sent off as Real tumble out ›› |
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| Technology & Science |
| Valid use for opium mooted ›› Opium from Afghanistan, the world's biggest source of heroin, should instead be used to legally produce morphine and codeine, a drugs think tank said on Wednesday in a suggestion cautiously... |
| • Early warning system for deadly leg clots ›› |
| • Microsoft lifts lid on Xbox ›› |
| • LCT buys drug delivery technology ›› |
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| Property |
| • Section goes from $20 to $6200 in 10 months ›› |
| • Bill tightens foreign land sale rules ›› |
| • Section goes from $20 to $6200 in 10 months ›› |
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| Employment |
| • Sawmills shut in 3 towns ›› |
| • Seek.com looks to share offer ›› |
| • How to promote staff ›› |
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| Motoring |
| • Classic Bentley under hammer ›› |
| • Ford pumps up performance ›› |
| • Curvaceous Zoe offers flexibility ›› |
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