Ellie Constantine

With a simple flick of his wrist, Chinese calligrapher Houjun Song left a crowd amazed at the Otago Museum yesterday.

It has taken about 600 hours to get there, but builders have nearly finished work on the Otago Community Hospice charity house.

Waipu volunteer firefighters have been "rocked" by the death of their friend and colleague Andrew Scotland in a hang-glider accident near Queenstown yesterday.

Food which is "good for the body, good for the soul" and costs just $3 has been increasing in popularity due to the current economic crisis.

Healthy and happy futures of some Central Otago children have been assisted through the auctioning of grapes yet to be harvested.

A love of history and curiosity about the night sky resulted in French novelist Olivier Bleys basing his latest project in Tekapo, New Zealand.

Parents of first-year students leaving home for the first time can breathe easy about them behaving and eating their greens in a hall of residence.

Not knowing any definite secret to a long marriage, Fred and Grace Shield marked 65 "very interesting" years together yesterday.

Piles of single gloves, boxes of calculators, jewellery and hundreds of dollars worth of textbooks were on sale as the Otago University Students Association sold off stacks of stray student property at a market day yesterday.

They were juicy, tasty, well sized and went down a treat.

Forced to leave its present premises, the Dunedin City Toy Library is desperately searching for a new home for its collection.

Dunedin children enjoyed plenty of fun and games yesterday as National Children's Day was celebrated in the city.

St Clair and St Kilda beaches remained open at the weekend despite sewage visible in the water off Dunedin's coastline - and the results of city council water tests are still days away.

The Fresher Competition got physical yesterday as competitors ran, aerobicised, danced and jostled their way to the final day of the week-long event.

The annual clocktower race went off with a chime and a squeal of excitement at noon yesterday.

The annual clocktower race went off with a chime and a squeal of excitement at noon yesterday.

Combustible rubbish in Dunedin's campus area is worrying Campus Watch staff and the Dunedin City Council, and attempts are being made to clean it up.

"They are all good kids."