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A man faces additional charges after police found two guns and shotgun ammunition in follow-up inquires after a traffic stop in Porirua earlier this week. Officers stopped the vehicle in Cannons Creek at around 4pm on Tuesday, February 4, after noticing “a person of interest” in the passenger seat. The 34-year-old man was arrested in relation to a warrant to arrest. The next day, police searched his home nearby and found two guns, shotgun ammunition, and gang insignia — which had allegedly been displayed during an incident in January. The man was due to reappear in the Porirua District Court…
Italian celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo has been accused of intimidating and sexually inappropriate behaviour by “dozens” of people on the set of his television programmes over nearly 15 years. He emphatically denies the claims.An investigation by British outlet ITV News raised allegations of “unacceptable”, “distressing” and “horrendous” comments from the 48-year-old, who has been a mainstay on cooking and travel television shows since the early 2000s.D’Acampo was accused of sexually aggressive comments directed at women, and threatening and abusive language on the set of his television shows, including Gino’s Italian Express, and Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip with fellow…
Chelsea Sugar (also known as the New Zealand Sugar Company) has been fined $149,500 for importing and selling sugar products tainted with lead.More than 970 tonnes of products were manufactured from sugar contaminated during sea transportation from Australia, resulting in the company recalling thousands of products in late 2021.Two more recalls were needed when it was revealed incorrect information was provided to supermarkets resulting in more tainted goods being released to consumers.After being charged by the Ministry for Primary Industries, a sentencing hearing was held in September last year and the court released its reserved decision today.”These recalls had a…
Chelsea Sugar (also known as the New Zealand Sugar Company) has been fined $149,500 for importing and selling sugar products tainted with lead. More than 970 tonnes of products were manufactured from sugar contaminated during sea transportation from Australia, resulting in the company recalling thousands of products in late 2021. Two more recalls were needed when it was revealed incorrect information was provided to supermarkets resulting in more tainted goods being released to consumers. After being charged by the Ministry for Primary Industries, a sentencing hearing was held in September last year and the court released its reserved decision on Friday. “These…
A native and once-critically endangered bird species has found itself a new home on the mainland. One hundred tīeke, or South Island saddlebacks, have been translocated to a sanctuary near Dunedin, in a project that aims to reestablish a population on the South Island at Orokonui Ecosanctuary.Tīeke were once widespread throughout the mainland and island forests, but by the 20th century, they were close to extinction and limited to three islands near Stewart Island.Disaster struck the southern species in the early 1960s when a boat accidentally brought rats to Big South Cape Island.The rats quickly spread to the other two…
ANALYSIS: The crowd was smaller, the Prime Minister was absent and, one year after the jubilation of 2024, the mood at Waitangi felt strikingly different. Words and photographs: John CampbellYesterday morning, Waitangi Day, just after the dawn ceremony, I was walking across the famous lawn at the Treaty Grounds, wondering how to tell the story of this year’s Waitangi in its complexity and its desperate need of the c word, context, when I met Pou and Donna Te Rongomau.Pou and Donna Te Rongomau (Source: 1News)We started talking. And after a minute or two, I asked them if I could record…
By Susan Edmunds of RNZ Westpac’s three-year fix of 4.99% is probably not a sustainable rate, one economist says. The bank said on Wednesday it would start offering the rate from today. It is the first major bank to offer a rate below 5% this cycle. Infometrics chief forecaster Gareth Kiernan said if the other banks matched the rate, it would take the margin between the three-year rate and three-year swap rates to the lowest since October 2023. “Although that isn’t a particularly long time, it’s probably more important to note that the margin across any swap-mortgage rate pairing has…
A member of a committee that ran Roxburgh’s historic cinema says the community is “devastated” after a Waitangi Day fire gutted the building.A total of eight crews of firefighters responded to the blaze in the middle of the central Otago town, which destroyed the Roxburgh Town Hall, including its 128-year-old cinema.The fire, which has now been extinguished, broke out shortly before midday forcing neighbouring properties to evacuate. A crew remained at the scene overnight with a fire investigator to check for a possible cause on Friday.The facility on Scotland Street included the town hall, supper room and 258-seat auditorium and…
A search is continuing for a man who fell into a river in Mt Aspiring National Park yesterday. Emergency services were alerted shortly before 5pm after reports the man had fallen from a rock into a river and failed to resurface.”A search team immediately deployed to the area however he was unable to be located,” police said in a statement. Police search and rescue resumed their search at 8am today.
Two people have died on the Auckland motorway network overnight, with delays continuing on SH1 after a crash halted northbound traffic for several hours.Police said the fatalities occurred in two separate “fatal incidents”.State Highway 1 was earlier closed to northbound traffic between the Manukau and the East Tamaki Rd on-ramp, near Ōtara. Lanes re-opened at 6.40am. Traffic being diverted on State Highway 1 earlier. (Source: Supplied)Emergency services were called to the single-vehicle SH1 crash at about 2.20am. One person died at the scene and four others were injured, two in critical condition and two others in serious condition, according to…