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The Ministry for Primary Industries has launched an investigation into School Lunch Collective meals served to children with plastic packaging melted into the contents, one of four food safety investigations underway into the troubled scheme.The Collective – which provides most of the country’s school lunches – has been plagued with problems since it replaced local providers this year.Murchison Area School principal Andy Ashworth said its certainly not the first problem he’d had with the School Lunch Collective programme.He has avoided criticising the quality of the food, wanting to give the companies “a bit of leeway”, but said even before the…
The suspected perpetrator in the car ramming attack which has killed at least two people is a 40-year-old German from Ludwigshafen. ADVERTISEMENTA 40-year-old German from the nearby state of Rhineland-Palatinate has been detained in relation to the car ramming attack on Monday which killed at least two people and injured 10 others.Local media have reported the man’s name is “Alexander S.”The suspected perpetrator was taken to hospital after being injured, according to Baden-Württemberg State Interior Minister Thomas Strobl.He added that there is currently no evidence of an extremist background in the attackers motivations, which could be more related to his…
A man found guilty earlier this year on sexual charges against a 13-year-old girl has been fighting to hide his identity on previous rape convictions.Auckland man Luca Fairgray, 22, can now be named over the previous offending against six teenage girls.Those offences, including rape, took place when he was a teenager and led to a sentence of home detention.He was given name suppression and that was extended to ensure a fair trial when he faced the new charges of having sex with a 13-year-old in 2023.Following his latest conviction in February, the name suppression order was extended but the Supreme…
A man has been charged after an allegedly stolen vehicle fleeing police crossed the centre line and critically injured a person in a head-on collision at the weekend.The crash occurred on State Highway 2 near Pōkeno at around 3pm on Saturday when a driver allegedly attempted to avoid road spikes and swerved directly into the path of the oncoming car.Acting Counties Manukau District Commander, Inspector Jared Pirret. said: “The driver of that car initially suffered critical injuries, and now remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition.” The driver alleged to be fleeing was also critically injured and taken…
A student alcohol-harm reduction group’s concerns about a planned new bar and live music venue have been dismissed. The district licensing committee’s decision, released late last month, granted a licence to DropKicks bar on the top floor of the former Captain Cook Tavern. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) opposed the application, citing concern about the pre-announcement of the opening of the venue ahead of resolution of the issue of an alcohol licence and describing the venue’s location as an area of high deprivation and alcohol harm. However, the decision said the location should not be an issue. “There are…
Four youths have been arrested after allegedly chasing a worker out of an Auckland convenience store this morning while armed with hammers and a machete.Police said the group — aged between 12 and 17 — entered the dairy on Kepa Rd in Ōrākei just before 9am and threatened the attendant working inside.”The attendant was chased out of the store,” Detective Senior Sergeant Martin Friend said.”These offenders have taken the store’s cash register as well as other products from the store.”The group then fled the scene in a stolen vehicle, he said.Police said officers were working nearby when they were alerted…
A group of disgruntled Bremworth shareholders is trying to replace the carpet company’s board of directors with a new board led by agribusiness leader Rob Hewett. A letter sent to chairman George Adams on Saturday called for a special meeting, citing “years of poor operational performance, erratic strategic direction and substandard execution under the stewardship of Bremworth’s current board”. In a note to the NZX yesterday, Bremworth said its co-founder and single-largest shareholder, Grant Biel, as well as “other substantial shareholders” spoken to by the board, had indicated their confidence in the current board. The dissatisfied Auckland-based shareholders, who represent…
The woman who died in a crash between a shared bike and a car in Martinborough last month has been named by police today as a UK resident who had previously lived and worked in New Zealand.One person died and three others were seriously injured when a car and a four-seater bike collided on Puruatanga Rd on February 13.Police named the woman who died in the crash as Alison Korny, 48, from Cheshire, England.Korny’s LinkedIn profile listed her as working for the Royal Bank of Scotland as an operations support financial analyst.She had previously worked for the National Bank of…
A car hit a group of people in the southwestern German city, resulting in at least two deaths. A police operation is ongoing. ADVERTISEMENTAt least one person was killed after a car drove into a group of people in a central pedestrian area in the German city of Mannheim on Monday, police confirmed.Another person has since succumbed to injuries, according to national news agency dpa, citing security sources, bringing the death toll to two.Initially, local media in the southwestern city reported witnesses, including a dpa reporter, saw a body covered with a sheet. Multiple people are believed to be injured,…
A witness has spoken about the moment a man — who threatened police with a metal pole following a fleeing driver incident — was tasered and pepper sprayed in rural east Auckland yesterday.The man later died, police said, noting there were now multiple investigations underway resulting from the incident at Ōrere Point on Sunday.’He wasn’t gonna give up’Glenn Smith said he was at Ōrere Point when he saw a car come “flying down” the beach, doing about 70km/h.”They got stuck in the rocks at the end of the beach and, next minute, a cop car came down.”Glenn Smith. (Source: 1News)The…