A driver who returned a breath-alcohol reading more than six times the limit after causing a three-car pileup told Dunedin police he had only drunk three glasses of wine five hours previously.

Radio silence from a major international airline has left a Dunedin family struggling under mounting pressure to secure a refund for cancelled flights.

Students are back, O Week is done and dusted, and — for once — Castle St couches remain unburnt.

For the first time in a very long time, all couches made it through the annual madness of Flo and O-week unburnt and unscathed, making a veteran campus cop proud.

Dunedin's love affair with British engines was on display at the weekend.