Police are disgusted after a crashed driver stole a car belonging to an elderly couple who had stopped to help him.

A police officer injured in a brutal machete attack needs more hospital treatment for his facial and head injuries.

The widow of Feilding farmer Scott Guy, whose murder remains unsolved five months on, has issued a heartfelt plea for her husband's killer to come forward as the family faces its first Christmas without a husband and dad.

Police officer Bruce Mellor, who was viciously attacked with a machete at the weekend, is steadily improving.

David Bourke was today jailed for shooting dead his brother.