Debbie Porteous

The registrar for Private Investigators and Security Guards will hold a three-day hearing in Dunedin to hear the objections of 16 people opposed to the renewal of the licence for Dunedin private investi-gator Peter Gibbons.

Police have issued about 30 speeding tickets and caught one driver travelling 42kmh over the speed limit during the first two weeks of an operation targeting speeders on State Highway 88 between Ravensbourne and Port Chalmers.

An injured crewman from a Japanese fishing trawler was safely airlifted from the vessel, more than 200km from shore, and taken to Dunedin Hospital this morning.

Mainland Air's service between Dunedin and Central Otago has been stopped due to low patronage, one of the company's managers says.

Mosgiel police have recovered several items they believe may have been stolen from residents' vehicles over the past month.

The public will not be allowed to bring their own alcohol to the biggest racing fixture south of the Waitaki River this year.

Dunedin Hospital remains under lockdown this morning as managers try to contain the spread of a highly infectious norovirus after 17 more cases were reported at the weekend.

Police yesterday named a 22-year-old Wanaka man whose body was discovered on the foreshore of Lake Wanaka about 7.20am on Saturday.

A delay in the release of a report expected to criticise several Dunedin police officers is the result of confusion around the Independent Police Complaints Authority's processes rather than a deliberate attempt to stall the release, Dunedin police say.

Four cars came to grief and a 55-year-old man was treated in hospital after a series of collisions with a group of cows on Dukes Rd, near Mosgiel, early yesterday.

Dunedin police are investigating an alleged incident involving a police officer at an Alexandra cafe on July 26.