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It's a wrap - flatmates foil student
Hamish Chang has revenge on his mind, after returning home to find his every worldly possession tightly wrapped in tinfoil.

Boutique hotel too cool for a dame
A new premiere boutique hotel may have been cool enough for Welsh crooner Tom Jones to stay at, but New Zealand's own Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has deemed it a little too "cool" for her vocal chords.

Knives At Noon sharpening up
Watch this space. That is stamped on pretty much everything you read about Knives at Noon right now, writes Paula Yeoman

Netball: Dunedin offer Steel a home
Edgar Centre general manager Blair Crawford is encouraging the Southern Steel to shift base to Dunedin.

Rugby: Injury casts cloud over Thomson
Adam Thomson's immediate playing future with Otago, the All Blacks and the Commonwealth Games sevens team is in limbo

Act's next-in-line supports Hide
The woman who would replace David Garrett should he leave Parliament says she "unreservedly" backs Act leader Rodney Hide.

Fashion Plate: Katie-maree Coleman
Katie-maree Coleman is a young Auckland designer on her way up.

Stone age man
Standing on snakes and having trees fall on him are all in a day's work for the archaeologist who's been called Auckland's Indiana Jones.

Gin's the boss
After a year of rock'n'roll adventures in the USA, Gin Wigmore returns to stake her claim in this year's New Zealand Music Awards and play a national tour. She talks to Scott Kara.