A convicted killer's long-running battle to overturn a ban on sex between prisoners at a criminal treatment unit in Rolleston Prison has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
Heartfelt messages have been posted online and placed at the scene of the fatal Burnham house fire that claimed the life of a Rolleston College student on Wednesday.
More than 1000 students donned their caps and gowns for a parade through central Christchurch on Friday to mark their graduation from Lincoln University.
A three-year-old Canterbury girl who needs home dialysis to stay alive had four machines fail in a week - and there is no back-up option in the South Island.
Merwyn and Marie Gilmore have owned the Prebbleton Tavern since 1970 - but now the veteran publicans have decided to get out of the game and put it up for sale.