Hamish McNeilly

After a lifetime devoted to the Sisters of Mercy religious order, the retired sisters at the McAuley House rest-home will require alternative accommodation when the rest-home closes - with the loss of 19 jobs - next month.

Environment Southland councillor Ali Timms is returning home with a holiday story that will take some beating - of being shipwrecked and clinging to a dinghy in shark-infested waters in Fiji.

According to Murray Fraser, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

With its February deadline fast approaching, the Carisbrook Stadium Trust is confident it can achieve the minimum 60% of private-sector funding required to gain final approval to build the stadium.

"I saw the whites of its eyes, and then bang . . . I thought I was going to die," says Stephen Brown, one of nine men injured when their van slammed into a group of cattle on Sunday morning.

Despite facing a 200% increase in wages and the imminent departure of one of its biggest clients, vocational service provider Cargill Enterprises is determined it will survive.

Steam locomotive Jb 1236 arrived in Dunedin with a train-load of visitors just after 6pm yesterday.

Take a bright idea, add a healthy dollop of Kiwi ingenuity, stir in a camera, computers and a bunch of iPods for good measure - and, hey presto, you have a recipe for success.

At ease, Sergeant Dan, the Creamoata Man - the national breakfast has been dismissed.

The Department of Conservation has agreed to right a 50-year-old wrong, and change the spelling of thar to tahr.

From a part-role as an information officer with the Dunedin Visitor Centre to becoming the newly-appointed chief executive of Tourism Dunedin - it has been an exciting journey for Hamish Saxton.

The simple fact of life for the Otago Fertility Service is that it is desperately short of sperm and egg donors.

A seemingly harmless prank could result in the shock of a lifetime, or even death, for the people involved, an electricity company has warned.

Gordon Weare was lucky to escape with his life at Warrington on Wednesday.

All will be revealed at Knox Church tomorrow after its three-month extreme makeover.