Proctor Auctions owner Ronnie Proctor will be waving farewell to one of his more unusual lots next month.

Alex Macmillan joins other riders at the annual Bike Breakfast at the Dunedin Railway Station yesterday morning, after cycling in to town from St Leonards.

Dunedin-born opera star Jonathan Lemalu is launching a new scholarship in honour of his first music teacher.

After weeks of late, unsuitable or unsavoury school lunches, two West Auckland schools had their first opportunity to speak to an actual person from the group behind the revamped lunch programme.