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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Child cases surge
International child abduction cases spiked by nearly a quarter in the past year, when 130 children were illegally moved in or out of New Zealand. Most were Kiwi kids taken overseas. Family lawyers say most cases involved foreign-born mothers taking children back to their home countries, which included Honduras, Israel and Malta. About two-thirds involved a parent illegally taking a child to, or ...
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Scan more criminals union says
Corrections staff are calling for special scanning chairs in all prisons after doctors found a cellphone hidden in the rectum of an injured Paremoremo prisoner. Boss (body orifice scanner) chairs are metal-detecting seats that locate objects hidden in cavities. A Boss could detect cellphones and metal weapons. The prisoner injured in a stabbing at Auckland's Paremoremo Prison last Tuesday has ...
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Govt eyes school board mergers
The Government might look at merging the boards of small neighbouring schools that struggled to get enough suitable candidates for this week's nationwide board of trustee elections. More than 1,000 schools will not have elections this year because they have only enough candidates to fill the positions, meaning no vote is required, the Herald on Sunday has learned. Responding to the numbers, ...
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Arrest in mutilation case
The scene of a serious incident on SH1, north of Tokoroa. Photo / John van de VenA man has been arrested after a woman was mutilated as she was dragged behind a car for a kilometre on State Highway 1 yesterday. A 27-year-old woman was taken to Waikato Hospital with critical injuries to much of her body after the incident between Putaruru and Tokoroa early yesterday afternoon. The hospital said ...
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Kidnap victim mutilated
The scene of a serious incident on SH1, north of Tokoroa. Photo / John van de VenA contractor driving a tractor bravely positioned his machine in the middle of State Highway 1 to protect a critically-injured young woman, left mutilated after being dragged behind a car for a kilometre. The woman, 27, is now on life support in Waikato Hospital with massive injuries to much of her body, after ...
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Kidnap victim mutilated
The scene of a serious incident on SH1, north of Tokoroa. Photo / John van de VenA contractor driving a tractor bravely positioned his machine in the middle of State Highway 1 to protect a critically-injured young woman, left mutilated after being dragged behind a car for a kilometre. The woman, 27, is now on life support in Waikato Hospital with massive injuries to much of her body, after ...
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Arrest in mutilation case
The scene of a serious incident on SH1, north of Tokoroa. Photo / John van de VenA man has been arrested after a woman was mutilated as she was dragged behind a car for a kilometre on State Highway 1 yesterday. A 27-year-old woman was taken to Waikato Hospital with critical injuries to much of her body after the incident between Putaruru and Tokoroa early yesterday afternoon. The hospital said ...
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Kidnap victim mutilated
The scene of a serious incident on SH1, north of Tokoroa. Photo / John van de VenA contractor driving a tractor bravely positioned his machine in the middle of State Highway 1 to protect a critically-injured young woman, left mutilated after being dragged behind a car for a kilometre. The woman, 27, is now on life support in Waikato Hospital with massive injuries to much of her body, after ...
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Arrest in mutilation case
The scene of a serious incident on SH1, north of Tokoroa. Photo / John van de VenA man has been arrested after a woman was mutilated as she was dragged behind a car for a kilometre on State Highway 1 yesterday. A 27-year-old woman was taken to Waikato Hospital with critical injuries to much of her body after the incident between Putaruru and Tokoroa early yesterday afternoon. The hospital said ...
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Same singer same choir new gender
Griffin Nichol used to be a woman who sang soprano in the New Zealand Youth Choir. Now, he's back in the choir as a man with a powerful tenor voice. Nichol has been selected again after making the female-to-male transition through a testosterone course from 2010. He admits not knowing what would happen to his singing career was his biggest ...
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Secrecy rules under review
Secrecy rules protecting the names of errant teachers are headed for a shake-up in Parliament. The Herald on Sunday has been pushing for changes to the rules which automatically protect the privacy of teachers subject to complaints. In January, the newspaper reported there was an absolute ban on reporting proceedings before the Teachers' Disciplinary Tribunal. Wellington barrister Graeme Edgeler ...
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Weta worries unions
Foreign workers are being targeted for more than 500 visual-effects jobs for the production of the next mega-movie in The Hobbit series. Wellington-based special-effects giant Weta Digital, co-owned by Sir Peter Jackson, has asked Immigration New Zealand for approval in principle to outsource 526 positions. Weta says most are just extensions to visas that are about to expire and the company has ...
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Wetas foreign imports worry unions
Foreign workers are being targeted for more than 500 visual-effects jobs for the production of the next mega-movie in The Hobbit series. Wellington-based special-effects giant Weta Digital, co-owned by Sir Peter Jackson, has asked Immigration New Zealand for approval in principle to outsource 526 positions. Weta says most are just extensions to visas that are about to expire and the company has ...
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New Zealand stepping up for regional fisheries
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