Mark Price

The trial of Clayton Weatherston has brought the spotlight to bear on one of the less-admired traits of the human character - narcissism.

Otago Museum board chairwoman Margaret Collins, of Balclutha, says she will not attend a meeting with the Public Service Association about its claim museum staff have been intimidated by management.

The two charities that will benefit from today's Cadbury Jaffa Race in Northeast Valley, Dunedin, are unhappy the event is to be the target of a protest.

Joan Reynolds, who turned 84 yesterday, is on a quest to reach the end of Oblivion.

"Management culture" will be the subject of a meeting between the Public Service Association and the Otago Museum later this month.

Sales of Cadbury dairy milk chocolate have gone up since the company changed the recipe, according to Cadbury New Zealand managing-director Matthew Oldham.

Student misbehaviour is back in the spotlight as the second semester at the University of Otago begins today.

The Otago Chamber of Commerce is taking the Dunedin City Council to task over its response to last month's snowfall.

Public Service Association claims of staff intimidation at Otago Museum have been backed up by five correspondents to the Otago Daily Times.

Some walk; some cycle; a few even catch the bus. But more than ever, Dunedin commuters take the car.

The addition of folic acid to bread will not increase the risk of cancer, the head of the University of Otago's department of human nutrition, Prof Murray Skeaff, says.

Motorists who got a ticket for parking their cars illegally because of icy roads yesterday morning are being advised to write to the Dunedin City Council's parking services with their explanation.

There's more to a bar of chocolate than meets the eye - and with public comment over Cadbury's Dairy Milk recipe, rival Whittaker's has come out swinging with a hard-hitting advertising campaign. Mark Price reports.

Nineteen Otago workers were among the 237 redundancies made by New Zealand Post Group in the first half of this year.

Convicted fraud Michael Swann has applied for legal aid in relation to two court cases in which he is still involved.

Dunedin photographers with a lingering love of film yesterday lamented news of the imminent demise of Kodak's oldest film stock - Kodachrome.

Dunedin's Northern Motorway has had a close shave.