Mark Price

This is the tale of an ancient tartan cloth gone missing. It is set in a 500-year-old Scottish castle, and the players include a Scottish Lord, an elderly maiden aunt and Robyn MacIntosh-Handtschoewercker, of Cardrona. The action is said to have begun at the battle of Culloden, Scotland, 270 years ago. Mark Price reports.

Three soldiers killed as a result of World War 1, but seemingly forgotten in their home district of the Upper Clutha, are being brought back into the limelight by a group of Wanaka historians.

The Christchurch man who killed the lawn at his Wanaka holiday house in a chemical mix-up has been offered two pairs of free glasses by a firm of optometrists.

Richard Raynes sounds like the sort of guy who would rather be scrambling over ice and snow on the side of Mt Aspiring in the dark than small-talking his way through the suits, frocks and handshakes of the ballroom at Government House.

Businessman Paul Currie was in a hurry.

Nigel Zega, the Otago Daily Times' Southern Festival of Colour reviewer, has lost track of the number of festival performances he has seen, but believes only festival staff will have seen more. Mr Zega steps into the limelight for a moment to answer a series of questions from Mark Price before the opening of the Wanaka-based festival.

A french tourist who backed her rental car over a cliff above Lake Wanaka early yesterday afternoon had a lucky escape from serious injury.

The Red Bridge - an Upper Clutha landmark near Luggate - has its centenary this year, and to begin celebrations it features in a newly published children's book.

Sixty Minis will leave Alexandra this morning on the last leg of their Kaitaia to Invercargill rerun of the classic New Zealand movie Goodbye Pork Pie.

More than 130 of the country's best kept Model A Ford cars lined up for public inspection in Wanaka yesterday.

Most Wanaka retailers ignored the law and opened their doors to customers yesterday, despite the risk of a fine.