Williams 21-year North Canterbury cricket career started and ended with the Hawke Cup, which is one of the oldest trophies in the sport in New Zealand and the symbol of minor cricket association supremacy.
%26quot;We won the cup in my first year. It was 1967 and we played Manawatu.
%26quot;It was a shock and a thrill to [...]

Welcome to Generation Z, the forgotten generation. Generation Z encompasses children aged 17 and younger, one in five of whom will have some form of mental illness.
One in four will be bullied, most likely over the internet. Also known as the New Silent Generation, it will be the most educated, financially well-off and technologically literate [...]

Several studies published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics %26amp; Adolescent Medicine add heft to the notion that getting enough sleep has wide-ranging health benefits.
Previous studies have shown that older children and adults who get too little sleep are more likely to weigh too much. Researchers led by Dr. Elsie Taveras of Harvard Medical School [...]

Over the last 12 years Ive filed away mountains of photos, newspaper clippings, notes and reports.
Now that Ive almost completed my book, Mayor of Two Cities, I have to admit that trying to cover all the characters, projects, success stories and disasters of the last decade, just in Invercargill alone, would take at least three [...]

A top Invercargill athletics coach was concerned pupils were competing in the championship event without a basic knowledge of the sport.
Initially the Southland Principals Association had decided to cancel the Southland championships from next year onwards, meaning Southlands young athletes would be left with the Otago-Southland Secondary School Athletics Championships, which alternates being held in [...]

Norm Withers said he was deeply hurt and saddened to hear about the attack by five men on a group of English and Danish tourists in Cashel Mall at 1am on Saturday.
The attack was apparently sparked by nothing more than their accents.
Six of the eight tourists were taken to Christchurch Hospital, including two with knife [...]

One of the English and Danish tourists remained in Christchurch Hospital with knife wounds, but was reported in a comfortable condition and likely to be discharged today.
Police today released firm descriptions of the six men they say attacked the tourists — two women and six men — who were walking in central Christchurch about 1am [...]

Celebrity-obsessed tabloids were awash in heavy-handed puns after the second-in-line to the throne appeared in public with Middleton on Friday when he was awarded his wings by his father, Prince Charles, after training with the Royal Air Force.
Royal Heir Force proclaimed The Daily Mirror. The Wing and I declared The Sun over its banner headline.
William [...]

Southland Girls High School is one school that uses School Links communication technology, which allows parents to receive a text informing them of their childs absence from a class within minutes of each period.
Principal Yvonne Browning said the technology was extra protection so parents received prompt reporting back if their daughter was playing truant. %26quot;Its [...]

MayRun To The SunNewquay, Cornwall23-26 May For most of its 22-year history, Run to the Sun has simply been a group of VW Campervan owners getting together to drive to the beach in Cornwall. Now it has grown into a fully fledged three-day music festival, with four arenas and two sites, but it still starts [...]