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Pharmacists are calling for more support amid workloads and pressures described as “very dire”. It comes as the Pharmacy Council, the sector’s regulator, reported a doubling of concerns raised over the past eight years. Clive Cannons, a pharmacist of 40 years, said the number of prescriptions, and the extra services expected of pharmacists “just exploded” after the Covid-19 pandemic. He said his Wainuiomata pharmacy Clive’s Chemist deals with a thousand prescriptions on a busy day. “This is absolutely the worst I’ve seen it, and the morale is low because no one can see any hope on the horizon,” he said.…
ADVERTISEMENT This year, wildfires across the EU have burned an area nearly half the size of Sicily, according to the latest data from Copernicus’ European Forest Fires Information System. So far in 2025, about 986,000 hectares have gone up in flames, more than three times the 227,627 hectares recorded in the previous year, with nearly 2,000 blazes detected. Since late February, the average monthly number of fires has been the highest on record. Spain suffered the worst damage, with over 380,000 hectares burnt, roughly 1.5 times the size of the state of Luxembourg. Portugal suffered even worse damage relative to…
Police are searching for the driver of an unwarranted and unlicensed car that allegedly did a brazen set of burnouts outside New Plymouth’s police station and district court over the weekend.Footage circulating online showed a vehicle revving and skidding on Powerham St around 5pm on Saturday, with tyres screeching and thick smoke billowing into the air.A man recording the incident can be heard encouraging the driver, saying, “Come down here, bro” as the skidding car approached a pedestrian crossing near the station.An orange roadwork sign reading “TEMPORARY” appeared to have been placed over the vehicle’s number plate, obscuring its registration.Several…
A Queenstown landlord who crammed tenants into partitioned rooms, garages, caravans and a bus has been ordered to pay $81,050 on behalf of 117 tenants.Conrad Joseph Lawrence Goodger and his companies Rent Ezi and Nice View Limited ran eight boarding houses – four of them unlawful and overcrowded, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment said.The ministry began investigating after complaints from tenants and a fire at one of his properties.(Source: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment)Despite site visits, an interview and a formal warning from its Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team (TCIT), the Ministry said Goodger’s properties remained non-compliant…
A desperate man was forced to drive his heavily bleeding father to hospital in the work van after he became frustrated that no ambulance was coming.The 43-year-old had suffered a deep cut to an artery in his arm when he was loading glass and timber into a bin on a building site in 2021. He died later that day.The ambulance arrived at the site more than 30 minutes after the man was already in hospital.Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell has criticised St John for multiple failings with its systems in relation to the incident in an unidentified town or…
Construction of Australia’s first ever marae could start in a few months after support from the Australian federal government.Australian Climate Change and Energy minister and Labor MP Chris Bowen announced that the re-elected Albanese Labor government will donate $1 million to the $18 million West-Sydney marae and cultural centre.”Community elders have been discussing the vision of a marae cultural centre in Sydney since 1992, and it is an honour to be able to help realise that vision,” Bowen said.Conversations between Māori and local indigenous mob elders took place over 40 years ago where they both came to a mutual agreement…
By Euronews Published on 08/09/2025 – 12:00 GMT+2 Key diary dates Tuesday 9 September: European Parliament’s plenary session to debate security guarantees for Ukraine with Kaja Kallas. Wednesday 10 September: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to deliver State of the Union address at European Parliament in Strasbourg. Friday 12 September: Von der Leyen to participate in Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry. In spotlight ADVERTISEMENT Commission President Ursula von der Leyen faces a uphill battle when she attempts to seize the narrative in her State of the Union address in Strasbourg. She will make security and competition…
The Prime Minister is giving his weekly briefing after New Zealand’s most high profile search came to a fatal end with the shooting of runaway father Tom Phillips by police.A police officer was also shot and injured in the confrontation and one of Phillips’ children was taken into custody.Also on the political agenda is the Tāmaki Makaurau byelection, won by Te Pāti Māori’s Oriini Kaipara on Saturday.The Reserve Bank and the Government’s handling of the issue has also been at the centre of political discussion in recent days.
Marokopa man Tom Phillips has been fatally shot by police after firing at an officer in Waikato this morning, and all three of his children are now in police custody.In a media conference at the Hamilton Central Police Station, Deputy Police Commissioner Jill Rogers said police responded to a report of a burglary at a rural farm supply store in Piopio at 2.30am on Monday.”Information came to police that describes two people on a quad bike, dressed in farm clothing and wearing headlamps,” Rogers said.The quad bike was then seen travelling north along the Waipuna Rd, with police spiking the…
ADVERTISEMENT A debate has erupted online after Spain’s transport minister Óscar Puente claimed that his country has the second-most punctual mid and long-distance trains in Europe. “Our punctuality ratio, the punctuality ratio of Renfe [Spain’s national state-owned railway company], is the second-highest in Europe, after the Swiss company and far ahead of Germany, Italy or France, which have punctuality rates inferior to ours,” he said on 4 September. It’s true that non-EU member Switzerland consistently ranks as having some of the most reliable trains on the continent, according to various reports and travel companies that rank services based on their…