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    Linda Taylor has drawn on her experiences working in the corporate and charity worlds to complete...

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    Study spurred by desire to make a difference

    Watching major corporations spend more on dinner for a client than a charity can make in a week was deeply frustrating for Linda Taylor.

    Moana pool hydroslide reopens to relief of city’s children

    Jack, 4 (left), and Leo Meintjes, 6, were among the first to go down the refurbished hydroslide...

    Moana pool hydroslide reopens to relief of city’s children

    The Meintjes brothers spent much of yesterday morning slip-sliding away at Moana Pool’s refurbished hydroslide.

    Love on the court: Special Olympics couple shoot hoops

    Newlyweds Wade and Brittney Elliott competed together on the same team for the first time at this...

    Love on the court: Special Olympics couple shoot hoops

    The annual Special Olympics is about more than the love of the game — friendships are forged and sometimes true love is also discovered.

    Right note for Christmas

    PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

    Right note for Christmas

    The Dunedin Salvation Army band strike up Deck the Halls during the Port Chalmers and District Lions Christmas music concert held at Iona Church yesterday. 

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    Big-spending Simms stumped up thousands for teammates

    Andrew Simms

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    Big-spending Simms stumped up thousands for teammates

    Unsuccessful Dunedin mayoral candidate Andrew Simms has declared campaign costs of $45,000 and has stumped up tens of thousands more for his teammates.

    In fine voice

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    In fine voice

    Members of the Cantores Choir perform Christmas carols at Tūhura Otago Museum yesterday. 

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    Capping off another year at regalia hire service

    Graduate Women Otago academic dress hire gown room manager Dr Jules Gross (left) with Cubby...

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    Capping off another year at regalia hire service

    The worst part of the job is doing "the sniff test" for "the smellies".

    Xmas message draws on unusual collection

    Dunedin’s Southern Consort of Voices, conducted by Daniel Kelly. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

    Xmas message draws on unusual collection

    THE SOUTHERN CONSORT OF VOICES, Star in the Sky — Music For Christmas, All Saints’ Anglican Church, Dunedin, Sunday, December 14.

    Throngs of graduands through central city

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    Throngs of graduands through central city

    University of Otago graduands parade in George St, Dunedin, on their way to the Dunedin Town Hall, on Saturday.

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    Parishioners feeling betrayed over plan

    St Mary’s Church, Kaikorai parishioner Susan Kubala, has had generations of her family attend...

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    Parishioners feeling betrayed over plan

    Angry parishioners at a Dunedin church feel "betrayed" and that their place of worship is quietly being swept from under their feet by what they say is a diocese in disrepair and debt.

    As swift as the wind

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    As swift as the wind

    A fleet of 6m class sailboats harness the wind to drive up the Otago Harbour racing in the ILCA South Island Championships on Saturday.

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    Need to be ‘wee bit crazy’ to do Crush the Cargill

    ‘‘Multisport’’ athlete Pascal Saker leaps over a hurdle at the start of the Crush the Cargill...

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    Need to be ‘wee bit crazy’ to do Crush the Cargill

    To want to spend your weekend running up and down Dunedin’s Mt Cargill over and over again, you have to be "a wee bit crazy".

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    Besties first, then marriages follow

    Close-knit couples (from left) Marty and Fiona Sykes, Dennis and Jean Gordon and Jim and Joanne...

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    Besties first, then marriages follow

    Three nursing besties who tied the knot within three months of each other 50 years ago returned to Dunedin to celebrate their anniversaries together on Saturday.

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    Murderer’s lies no match for evidence

    Rajinder was caught on supermarket CCTV without a wound to his hand just hours before the murder....

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    Murderer’s lies no match for convincing and scientific evidence

    A Dunedin man was found guilty last week of murdering his ex-employee. Rob Kidd looks at how police built an overwhelming case against him and how the defendant’s lies sealed his fate.

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    Change to RMA ‘could kill venues’

    Dave Bennett. PHOTO: ODT FILES

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    Change to RMA ‘could kill venues’

    Changes to the law around noise complaints could lead "to the death of live music in New Zealand" and put Dunedin venues at higher risk of closure, an advocate says.

    Visionary Dunedin architect inspired by love of exhibitions

    Exhibition Company chairman John Sutherland Ross and architect Edmund Anscombe sit in the front...

    Visionary Dunedin architect inspired by love of exhibitions

    Often when we think of architecture we picture great minds conceiving buildings weighted with purpose and lofty in ambition.

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    Gang member who raped woman fails in parole bid

    Adrian Waa will see the Parole Board again in May next year. PHOTO: ROB KIDD

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    Gang member who raped woman fails in parole bid

    A Dunedin gang member who forced his way into a woman’s home and raped her has had another parole bid declined.

    St Bathans: an artist’s muse

    Otago Peninsula artist Pauline Bellamy is celebrating 50 years of connection to St Bathans with...

    St Bathans: an artist’s muse

    Buying a historic property in Central Otago gold mining township St Bathans in 1972 has led to a life-long artistic love affair for Otago Peninsula artist Pauline Bellamy.

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    Decision to restrict kava use riles

    Otago University deputy vice-chancellor Pacific Prof Dianne Sika-Paotonu. PHOTO: ODT FILES

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    Decision to restrict kava use riles

    A decision to temporarily restrict the use of kava on the University of Otago’s Dunedin campus has drawn the ire of some staff.

    Parking plan post dollar store demolition

    PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN

    Parking plan post dollar store demolition

    Demolition work at 121 Great King St, which used to be the premises of the recently closed "This ‘n’ That" store, has begun.
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