Waitati pirate queen and self-appointed cultural ambassador in her campaign to be mayor of Dunedin. Video / Frank Film

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Both the defendant and the inmate were detained and the package was retrieved.

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Series of burnouts ended with a grass verge on fire and a neighbour battered unconscious.

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