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© 2025 CNN Thu, 28 Sep 7:10am Ihug gets ready for unbundled market
Internet service provider ihug yesterday launched a campaign to ready itself for new laws that will open up Telecom's local network to competitors.Ihug - which has been put up for sale by its Australian parent iiNet - will distribute...
© 2025 NZ Herald Thu, 28 Sep 6:30am  I swore at patients, nurse admits
A South Auckland mental health nurse who faces misconduct charges has admitted he swore at two patients but denies assaulting one of them.Hemi Timu was giving evidence before a Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal hearing...
© 2025 NZ Herald Thu, 28 Sep 6:30am  Get ready for bird flu, schools warned
A pandemic will strike New Zealand and schools should be preparing for it now, the Ministry of Education's pandemic planning manager said yesterday.Graeme Marshall told the annual meeting of the New Zealand Education Institute...
© 2025 NZ Herald Thu, 28 Sep 6:30am $20,000 hoard in campervan
An Australian couple who lost thousands of dollars-worth of jewellery while on holiday in New Zealand are about to be reunited with their valuables thanks to an Auckland family who hired the same campervan months later.Robert...
© 2025 NZ Herald Thu, 28 Sep 6:30am Teachers say NCEA could do better
Two-thirds of secondary school teachers are either unhappy or ambivalent about the National Certificate of Education Achievement (NCEA), a new survey shows.Post Primary Teachers Association president Debbie Te Whaiti said that...
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Ritz pulls plug on online gambling
The Barclay Brothers' gaming website, The Ritz Club Online, became the latest casualty of the US crackdown on internet gambling yesterday, unexpectedly closing its site to new members with immediate effect.The website, which is...
© 2025 NZ Herald Thu, 28 Sep 6:30am Surgeons plan zero-gravity operation aboard plane
BORDEAUX, France - French surgeons plan to perform the first zero-gravity operation today aboard a plane free-falling to create weightless conditions, in what they hope can be a trial run for surgery on astronauts in space.Dominique...
© 2025 NZ Herald Thu, 28 Sep 6:30am Rules for retirement villages
Win Ritsman reckons moving into a retirement village with his wife was the best move they ever made. But the 82-year-old has friends who are deeply unhappy, and feeling cheated, after making the same move.That is why Mr Ritsman...
© 2025 NZ Herald Thu, 28 Sep 6:30am Hip operations make way for payouts
Hundreds of thousands of dollars that could have been spent on operations have instead been used to deal with personal grievance cases at the Auckland District Health Board - with one in particular hurting the legal bill.Figures...
© 2025 NZ Herald Thu, 28 Sep 6:30am Bright idea offers Viaduct a new twist
An Auckland artist wants to build a giant glowing neon and steel twister sculpture at Viaduct Harbour - but first he needs about $3 million.The work - shown in this artist's impression - would be 20m high, made of three intertwining...
© 2025 NZ Herald Thu, 28 Sep 6:30am  Chess competitors tested as tuberculosis probe widens
Manawatu health officials investigating a tuberculosis case are testing 90 people who attended a school chess tournament in Palmerston North in June.More than 1800 Palmerston North Boys' High School students, staff and close contacts...
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