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Comment: International travel with children not much fun

It was very hard to not to get flangry (flight delayed angry)

Hamish Bidwell: You can tell a lot about a country by how it treats its frontline workers

Everyone wants more pay, better equipment and conditions, but firefighters are different.

Bay butter gifted to Antarctic expedition

The fund-raising task was largely carried out by Scott

Comment: Have a strategy for dealing with market ups and downs

Investors don't get paid for not taking risk

Wyn Drabble: Food, not so glorious food

The success of the deep-fried Mars Bar led to the deep-frying of other confections.

Time to make landlines cheap as chips

Call to drop landline charges as rival technologies offer so much more.

Comment: Thank goodness for modern remedies

Treating one disease with another sounds like a bad idea

Comment: Dearth of candidates a worrying trend

Who needs the political party machine dictating their thoughts and actions?

Artist dedicated to landscape as a subject

Barbara worked from her villa in Arthur Street, Ponsonby

Poets give voice to nature's influences

The Napier Live Poets (NLP) are abuzz

Comment: KiwiSavers, don't panic - time is on your side

It's likely we haven't seen the last of this bout of volatility

Comment: Tolerance is acceptance of differing views

Tolerance is not about insisting there's only one way to think or act

Comment: Let's return pātiki to the Ngaruroro

Our scientists and monitoring team have spent hours pulling together environmental data

The strangest place names in Britain

My first experience of such names came in the 1970s when I travelled on the London Tube.

Days of soldiering on are over

While the weather has been miserable it is the middle of winter and it will get better.

Comment: Covid shadow on countdown to long-awaited getaway

I think I must subconsciously be quite worried that it will never happen

Shocked over maternity service review

It's a hellishly damning review of maternity services, if true.

Design reflects history of movement across the globe

One of the most obvious influences in Guy Ngan's career is modernist architecture.