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RUDE AWAKENING: Ross Smith with a piece of the car that smashed through the fence of his family home.

Hit and run on homeowner's fence

Raumanga resident Ross Smith wants the driver who ploughed through his wooden fence to'fess up after being rudely woken early yesterday.

  • News
  • 6:00 AM May 25th

Fleeing crims jailed

Only tough line will put an end to chases, says judge

  • 6:00 AM May 25th
  • By Mike Dinsdale and Imran Ali

Land value stays as KDC rates rise 9.3pc

Kaipara will keep its land value-based rating system and with a proposed 155 per cent differential on properties larger than two hectares.

  • 6:00 AM May 25th
  • Annette Lambly

Watery fate for ute

Sitting in his ute in a roadside culvert with water pouring in the window, Rob Hamilton thought he was a goner.

  • 6:00 AM May 25th
  • By Kristin Edge

Another bump in the road for exporters

New Zealand's terse trading relationship with China may have been a contributing factor to the current meat crisis, a Northland farming leader says.

  • News
  • 6:00 AM May 25th
  • By Teuila Fuatai

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Sister dies on hearing of judge's death

Sister dies on hearing of judge's death

The family of Supreme Court judge Sir Robert Chambers have suffered a second tragedy with the death of his sister - who was so shocked by the news she collapsed when told he had died. Barbara Mitchell learned of her brother's death on Wednesday morning in a phone call from their sister Sally. She managed to call out to her husband Mark as she fell to the ground. Barbara Mitchell's son Peter Mitchell, 42, said his mother hadn't been well the previous day. "What we now know is that was the start of a bleed in the aorta so she had [undiagnosed] heart disease ... the prognosis in the end was the…

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