Ex Pc On Child Porn Charges Is Killed
- June
- 11
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A MAN stabbed to death outside his home was a former police constable awaiting trial on child porn charges, it has emerged.
It is understood Geoffrey Harries, 49, was stabbed several times after challenging someone he believed was interfering with his car near his home at around 1.45am on Saturday.
The dead man, who lived in Dythel [...]
Comstock: Tax Big Box Acres Of Free Parking
- June
- 4
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One of the massive changes in how we build our cities is in the retail sector. Most notable is the Wal- Martization factor where 60% of the city’s commercial tax base is being undermined by the tax treatment of this new-format retail: the Big Box with acres of parking. This change is not really surprising, [...]
Blast Victim Gas Leak Probe
- May
- 17
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Detectives investigating the blast in Stanley Road, Harrow, north London, on May 7 think it was caused by a gas leak, Scotland Yard said.
Police had linked the explosion to a substance poured through the letterbox of number 21 but this has now been ruled out as a cause.
Earlier, the sister of bomb blast victim Charlotte [...]
Gas Leak Sparked Explosion At Flat
- May
- 17
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AN EXPLOSION that could leave a pretty teenager scarred for life and killed her neighbour was not caused by a rival gang say police.
A purple liquid had been poured through the letterbox of Tyneside-born Charlotte Anderson just hours before the blast flattened three London houses.
It had been thought by detectives that the substance might have [...]
Sprouting a bright idea
- April
- 20
Riding the boom was Jeremy Howden, the son of Wairarapa farmers, who, in 1990, cashed in his holiday pay as an advertising representative for the local paper and bought the sprouts business of a Chinese greengrocery.
New Zealanders fascination with ethnic food, encountered on their mandatory OE, had already seen the rise in main centres of [...]
Brother to brother the MP and the gang president
- April
- 16
Wed been put on a goods train, and had walked from the railway station to home.
This lady took us over and tried to find us some clothes and food and everything and found nothing in the house, says Mark.
Their parents? Mark shrugs. Out somewhere, partying.
Already his parents had accumulated a thick file with Social Welfare, [...]
Working on top of the world (+videos)
- April
- 16
His picture hangs in the Sherpa museum, above the terraced village of Namche Bazaar, and almost everyone in the Solu-Khumbu valley knows who he is. He is stopped often, sometimes by people just wanting to shake his hand. A Western climber we meet on the trail stops to hug him. She tells us confidently, You [...]
Family living rough described as ‘very loving’
- April
- 16
Yesterday, camera crews and reporters from at least two television channels and one national newspaper were pursuing them after East Coast MP Anne Tolley drew national attention in Parliament to their lifestyle.
Her concern was that they were living in makeshift conditions and that Child, Youth and Family (CYF) had not intervened.
The familys 13 children were [...]
Petrol surges over 2 a litre in rural areas
- April
- 16
Parts of Coromandel, the Nelson region and the East Cape face crippling prices, but Stewart Island is the worst hit, where 91 octane costs a whopping $2.11 and diesel $1.67. In Wellington, it costs about 28 cents a litre less for unleaded 91 and 25c less for diesel.
Though petrol at Stewart Island has cost more [...]
Campsite family were terrorised in home
- April
- 12
Sandra Hohipa and Peter Smith and their 13 children aged one to 16 - none of whom is in school - have spent the summer living rough in a rural area on the East Coast.
Their plight was highlighted by a National Party press release that described them as living wild in countryside near Wairoa with [...]
