Sunday Star-Times back issues from March 2007:
RICKARDS ' I did things I'm Ashamed Of'; Excusive Interview
Mar 04, 2007; ... After 10 not guilty verdicts, Clint Rickards is a free man. Butfor many New Zealanders, his reputation is forever tainted by theaccusation that he is a rapist. In a series of interviews with the Sunday Star-Timesthat began last year, Rickards speaks exclusively of the fear he ...
Sainsbury fights sacking
Mar 04, 2007; ... CLOSE UP presenter Mark Sainsbury has protested to Television NewZealand bosses about the axing of one of the show's producers,Maryanne Ahern. TVNZ deputy head of news and current affairs Steve Rowe and ahuman resources representative told Ahern on Thursday she was beingmade ...
Schollum and Shipton hide amid threats
Mar 04, 2007; ... CONVICTED RAPISTS Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum were hidden in MtEden Prison's hospital on Friday night amid concern for their safetyafter threats of a "hit" by fellow inmates. The pair were cleared of indecent assault and kidnapping charges,with Assistant Police Commissioner ...
Inside the mind of Rickards
Mar 04, 2007; ... CLINT RICKARDS is a man who sees the world in black and white.Guilty, not guilty. Truth, or lies. Which perhaps explains hisstruggle to understand the ambivalence so many of his fellowcountrymen and women feel about his acquittal last week, three yearsafter The Dominion Post first ...
EDITOR'S PICKS
Mar 04, 2007 ... THIS WEEK your Sunday Star-Times comes with the first edition ofdomain, a free glossy 32-page magazine about the residential propertymarket. Free every week, it aims to keep readers better informed about theproperty market, providing useful, information for those ...
ROAD DEATHS Cyclist couple run over
Mar 04, 2007; ... A WEEK-LONG campaign encouraging more New Zealanders to ride bikesended with two cyclists being killed and another in hospital. A holidaying husband and wife were yesterday knocked off theirmountain bikes by a bakery delivery van while cycling along Spa Rd,Taupo. Hilary ...
Teacher elopes with 16-year-old student
Mar 04, 2007; ... A MASTERTON drama teacher who eloped with a 16-year-old studenthas "thrown away his career", friends and colleagues say. Luke McIndoe, 24,joined the staff of his old school, WairarapaCollege, in November 2005. Friends said he was popular with students - but no one appeared ...
Midwife suspended after two die
Mar 04, 2007; ... A HAWKE'SBAY midwife has been suspended after the deaths of twobabies she delivered. The midwife was suspended in December after a competency reviewbecause she was "a serious risk to the public", but could return tomidwifery if she did competency training, said Midwifery ...
MAYBE BABY
Mar 04, 2007; ... Lomus battle parenthood dilemma RUGBY LEGEND Jonah Lomu and hiswife Fiona face a dilemma over whether to have children, they revealin an interview with Sunday Star- Times sports reporter Greg Fordtoday. Speaking about the prospect of fatherhood, Lomu said drugs he musttake for ...
Oyster fans aren't about to go green
Mar 04, 2007; ... THEY ATE with relish dozens of oysters dredged from the seafloor1000km south and gave no thought to air miles or carbon footprints.Instead they called for more. Just over a gross - 12 dozen - of hungry oyster lovers gathered atAuckland's Soul Bar and Bistro yesterday to devour the ...
Morgue shock after harbour swim death
Mar 04, 2007; ... A SENIOR pathologist has recommended restrictions on the timefamilies spend with the bodies of loved ones after a body decomposedso rapidly in a hospital viewing room he could not properlyinvestigate the death. Dr Timothy Koelmeyer said he was appalled when he was toldsecurity ...
Pair united by grief
Mar 04, 2007; ... IN A relationship born of tragedy, the widow of a swimmer whodrowned during the annual Auckland Harbour crossing and the teenagelifeguard who tried to save him have become friends. Loree Gourley's husband Fraser Moors, 36, died just 300m from theViaduct entrance on November 5, ...
Family fled with thousands in cash
Mar 04, 2007; ... A FAMILY who left the country under allegations of a $17 millionfraud had several hundred thousand dollars in cash delivered to theiroffice in the days before they disappeared. A friend of the Osman family said they also had up to 20 safesfull of cash at their Otahuhu, south ...
New tool helps home buyers shopping for schools
Mar 04, 2007; ... HIGH DEMAND for quality state education has prompted a real estateagency to launch a website tool allowing house- hunters to search forproperties in specific school zones. School zones were not only an important consideration for parentsbuying a new home but also for those in ...
Bailey taking famine message to Kiwi kids
Mar 04, 2007 ... FORMER NEWSREADER Judy Bailey went back to work last month - withsome of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged children. Bailey and husband Chris spent a month working in a children'sshelter in Ahmenabad, India, caring for boys who had been rescuedfrom "appalling situations" ....
My baby's my Idol, says dumped contestant
Mar 04, 2007; ... HE MAY have ended her NZ Idol hopes but dumped contestant GeorginaPatea sings his praises. The Christchurch 25-year- old tenderly cradles her newborn son,Kotahipounamu, which means "one special gift" and whose conceptionled to her controversial ditching from the popular TV show ...
Custody case dad to sue
Mar 04, 2007; ... A FATHER falsely accused of sexually abusing his daughter during aseven-year court battle plans to sue New Zealand's legal aid agencyfor compensation after it paid for the mother's fight. The father has full custody of his daughter after the claims werefinally dismissed as ...
Doc faces action for patient affair Woman's ex-husband lays complaint
Mar 04, 2007; ... A SENIOR doctor who had a "desperately intense" two-year affairwith one of his patients - after performing a vasectomy on herhusband - may face disciplinary charges. The affair, between 1986 and 1988 in a small rural town, wasinvestigated last year after the woman's now ex-husband ...
Garden stereo craze turns up neighbour wars
Mar 04, 2007; ... THE KIWI penchant for "indoor- outdoor" living is causingheadaches for neighbours and councils as sophisticated outdoor stereosystems drum up a barrage of noise complaints. Local authorities say noise complaints, which reach a crescendo insummer, are rising by about 6% a year ....
Obesity crisis shakes up mortician
Mar 04, 2007; ... AUCKLAND MORTICIAN Lloyd Shaw could put himself out of businesswith his innovative plan to shake New Zealand's obesity epidemicthrough vibration training. His VibraTrain franchises offer free sponsorship to some clientssuffering chronic obesity and other life- threatening ...
Tattoo case to ministry
Mar 04, 2007; ... AN AUCKLAND family whose son was expelled from a Catholic boys'school because he has a tattoo will complain to the EducationMinistry in a bid to stop other students being treated the same way. Zavier Bygrave, 17, was last month expelled from Sacred HeartCollege after getting a ...
EDUCATION Why preschools need men
Mar 04, 2007; ... FALLING RATES of men teaching in kindergartens and daycares couldbe turning boys off learning for life, education experts say. The number of men in teacher- staffed preschools has halved toless than 1% in the past decade. That's below other countries - Australia has about 4% ...
MORE THAN A JOB
Mar 04, 2007; ... HIS YOUNGEST son's birth inspired Wellington electrician RayMargrain's dramatic career shift - to become an early childhoodteacher. "He was a delightful surprise," says Margrain of his son, who isnow seven. "But my wife's career was going from strength to strength, so ...
THE THIN BLUE LINE
Mar 04, 2007; ... Steve Braunias on the end of the sordid affair of Clint Rickards,Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum, the three former police colleaguesfound not guilty of sex offences this week. THE POLICE threw everything at them, and nothing stuck. Not guiltyof all 20 charges at last year's Louise ...
'Cops used me as roadblock' - woman
Mar 04, 2007; ... POLICE ARE investigating claims that officers chasing an allegedlydangerous criminal used an Auckland woman driver and her car as a"roadblock". Evgeniya Arel says police are now refusing to pay for thousands ofdollars of damage to her car. Act leader Rodney Hide complained ...
PHARMAC'S LONE PATH
Mar 04, 2007; ... Critics have accused Pharmac of dangerous penny pinching with newcancer drug Herceptin. But are they right? Ruth Laugesen reports. PHARMAC IS treating New Zealand women like "lab rats", says BreastCancer Aotearoa Coalition chairwoman Libby Burgess. Pharmac is ...
I don't care what new research shows
Mar 04, 2007; ... I F YOUR daily paper is anything like mine, you'll be familiarwith what I like to call "the latest research shows" pages. Usuallysourced from overseas, the stories bring the latest news from thefrontiers of medical science. Usually it's bad: people born onTuesday are more likely to walk ...
WINNING WORDS Access to Waitangi should be free for all
Mar 04, 2007 ... OUR FAMILY recently visited Waitangi for the first time, ready tosavour this place rich in our heritage, until we found out to askquestions we would have to take a guided tour for $22. We got an education of a different kind that day. We learned thatKiwis cannot visit the ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR This aunty won't buy a risque T-shirt
Mar 04, 2007 ... AS AN aunty with 18 nieces and nephews, I am the type of buyerthat Francis Hooper, the designer for World, had in mind when hedesigned a child's T-shirt with the words "Future porn star" on thefront (February 25). Hooper's intention was that an aunty would buythe T-shirt to give to a ...
The trial's over, but the doubt goes on
Mar 04, 2007 ... THE POLICE rape trial ends and nobody is satisfied. Doubts persistabout the verdict and about whether Clint Rickards is fit to returnas Auckland's top police officer. The hideous difficulty of historicrape trials - her word against theirs, and no other evidence -confronts us again. Nor ...
POISONED IVY SPEAKS
Mar 04, 2007; ... The trust inquiry that cleared John Tamihere led to a convictionlast month for Ivy Bennett, 68. Tony Wall meets her. I VY BENNETT plays the victim well. Tears fill her eyes when shetalks about her past two years of "hell" at the hands of the SeriousFraud Office. "You have no idea ...
Horse racing cashing inon pokie millions
Mar 04, 2007; ... A HIGH-PROFILE horse racing identity sits on a pokie trust thathas pumped millions of dollars into racing - including bodies he hasbeen associated with. Murray Acklin, who was a long- time chairman of New ZealandThoroughbred Racing and an NZ Racing Board director until ...
$10,000 OFFERTO SACK DIRECTOR
Mar 04, 2007; ... A FORMER New Zealand Rugby League employee allegedly offered thecoach of the Wellington Orcas franchise $10,000 to sack a boardmember. Cody Meads, a discharged bankrupt who was the general manager ofthe NZRL's Wellington branch between 2003 and 2004, offered the moneyto Orcas ...
Boss takes control of league
Mar 04, 2007; ... A T LUNCHTIME yesterday, clad in black and smoking a cigaretteoutside the Quality Inn in Manukau, Andrew Chalmers didn't lookhappy. By tea time last night, rugby league - with a few modifications -had embraced the brave new Chalmers world. The interim chairman ofthe New Zealand ...
WORD OF MOUTH
Mar 04, 2007; ... Steve Kilgallon talks to Lou Vincent and finds the Black Caps batsman andfieldsman extraordinaire is not called Loose Lips for nothing. TONY GREIG was the first. Appointed England captain in 1975, hedeclared in those grinding Afrikaans tones that the West Indies werea good ...
GETTING AIRBORNE
Mar 04, 2007; ... LIKE MOST cricketers, James Franklin was schooled in the necessityof hitting the ball along the ground. Slowly he's unlearning alifetime of indoctrination. Franklin heads to the world cup as a valuable part of the NewZealand arsenal. He's likely to open the bowling alongside Shane ...
Willis quick on draw
Mar 04, 2007; ... TOM WILLIS has defended his decision to kick for goal after thefulltime siren to force a draw against the Cheetahs in an intensematch in Bloemfontein yesterday. Trailing by three points with time up on the clock, the Hamilton-based franchise was awarded a penalty about 40 metres ...
Sweat, starch brighten faded Blues
Mar 04, 2007; ... BURIED IN the turf at Auckland Domain and in the black sands tothe west of Jerome Kaino's hometown lies the secret to his season.The litres of sweat he shed in both locations have washed away bynow, but the fruits of his labours are well and truly starting to payoff. Kaino and ...
Lote sorry as push comes to shove off
Mar 04, 2007 ... SAM NORTON-KNIGHT says he has forgiven Lote Tuqiri for the wing'samazing attack on his Waratahs team-mate after Friday night's drawwith the Western Force. An irate Tuqiri ran some 30 metres across the field to shoveNorton-Knight in the back and issue a verbal spray after ...
NETBALL Southland braces for stoush over trans-Tasman base
Mar 04, 2007; ... THE SOUTHLAND netball community is bracing for a stoush withNetball New Zealand if Dunedin is chosen as the base for any far-south team in the proposed trans-Tasman league in 2008. Invercargill-based Southern Sting have appeared in all nine finalsin the current National Bank Cup ...
IRONMAN Modest Lawn begins her own legend at Taupo
Mar 04, 2007; ... ON A history-making day, Kiwis Jo Lawn and Cameron Brown lefttheir unique mark on Ironman triathlon with convincing wins in Taupoyesterday. Lawn won her fifth straight title to eclipse the great Erin Bakerfor the most titles won, while Brown won his sixth. Lawn, who led ...
ATHLETICS Williams whips up a treble, and her best is yet to come
Mar 04, 2007; ... HAMILTON SPRINTER Monique Williams completed a rare treble on anhistoric day at the national track and field championships inInglewood yesterday. Williams, as she has done three times at junior level, swept allthe women's sprint events - the 100m, 200m and 400m - clocking ...
COURT ACTION Kiwis star facing charge over fight
Mar 04, 2007; ... KIWI LEAGUE international Frank Pritchard is expected to becharged tomorrow with affray over the savage street brawl in theSydney suburb of Liverpool that almost claimed his brother's life. The 23-year-old Penrith Panthers star is one of a dozen people whowill be issued with court ...
CLUB IN CRISIS Late deal saves Lions from axe
Mar 04, 2007; ... THE AUCKLAND Lions' place in the NRL reserve grade competition wasrescued from a premature demise by 11th-hour meetings to resolve ahuge gap in their financial underwriting. The fledgling team - seen as a vital pathway to the NRL's topgrade for young league players in this country ...
NRL TRIAL MATCH It's Sonny side up for the Warriors
Mar 04, 2007; ... OF COURSE, if trial matches meant anything, they wouldn't becalled trials. But this would have been rather pleasant for theWarriors - a full-strength Bulldogs (including Sonny Bill Williams)despatched comfortably, an excitable crowd cheering them home inbalmy conditions and a reasonably ...
Capital club nets money men
Mar 04, 2007; ... SPONSORS AND investors are lining up to back the new Wellington A-League franchise, who are aiming to be fully operational within amonth with All Whites coach Ricki Herbert in charge. Wellington bid chief John Dow told the Sunday Star-Times yesterdaythat: "there's a lot of ...
Heat power up as Giants chase place in the sun
Mar 04, 2007; ... NBL coaches Nenad Vucinic (Nelson) and John Dorge (North Harbour)have a raft of challenges ahead as they chase an elusive title. GaryBirkett reports. THE NELSON Giants will employ Pace and not-so-slight of Hand as they bid to end a NBL title drought dating backnine years ....
TEAM-BY-TEAM SHAKEDOWN
Mar 04, 2007; ... NORTH HARBOUR HEAT Notable arrivals: coach John Dorge, NZ BreakersAussie imports Oscar Forman and Tim Behrendorff, guard Nat Connell. Notable losses: coach Steve Done, Troy McLean, Mike Homik. Key retentions: Hayden Allen, Brent Charleton, Jarrod Kenny. Wild card: ...
SERIES CALENDAR
Mar 04, 2007 ... 2007 V8 Supercar series: Round 1: Today, Clipsal 500, Adelaide. Rd 2: March 23-25, BigPond 400, Perth. Rd 3: April 20-22, PlaceMakers Int, Pukekohe. Rd 4: May 18-29, Winton Int, Winton, Victoria. Rd 5: June 9-11, Eastern Creek, Sydney. Rd 6: ...
LOMU'S CO-STARS IN NEW AD
Mar 04, 2007 ... DAVID BECKHAM Footballer "I still look back to '98. Of course I wish it hadn't havehappened, how I sort of reacted as a young boy. I think I cried forabout five or 10 minutes literally." GILBERT ARENAS NBA star "They said I was gonna play zero minutes. You know, I just ...
MASTERSTROKE BY JONAH
Mar 04, 2007; ... Jonah Lomu talks about his latest comeback, stealing DavidBeckham's thunder and babies. Greg Ford reports. JONAH LOMU has not retired after all. The former All Black may notbe playing rugby, but it seems nothing much has changed. He's backtraining fulltime after a ...
THE WEIRD WORLD OF SPORT
Mar 04, 2007 ... * HOW MANY sports-related movies over the past 25 years have wonthe Academy Award for Best Picture? There was Million Dollar Baby in 2004. Another would be Chariotsof Fire in 1981. That would appear to be it ... or maybe not,depending on how one defines "sports-related movie" ....
SAY IT AGAIN
Mar 04, 2007 ... "I'm just exhausted. I don't know what's up and down and back andforth, really. Feet are aching, head is aching, wallet is aching. Idon't remember when I was this tired. I'm almost too tired to behappy." - Sweden's Henrik Stenson after winning the world matchplay golftitle ....
WORLD OF SPORT
Mar 04, 2007 ... Kelly clips rivals HOLDEN CLAIMED first honours in the 2007 V8 Supercar Championshipyesterday, with Todd Kelly winning race one of the Clipsal 500 inAdelaide. Pole-sitter James Courtney of Ford was second and Ford'sJamie Whincup claimed third after edging the other Kelly ...
ERIN TAYLOR OUT TO REPEAT STUNNING ROYAL COUP
Mar 04, 2007; ... TEENAGER ERIN Taylor ended Katie Pocock's reign as the queen ofNew Zealand kayaking by claiming the K1 1000m national title on LakePupuke, Takapuna, yesterday. Taylor, who combined with Pocock later in the day to win the K21000m race, will today try to end Pocock's decade-long ...
Auckland boosts crash response team after spectacular melee
Mar 04, 2007; ... THE AUCKLAND Trotting Club has increased the size of its crashresponse team to try to prevent a repeat of the spectacular melee onthe opening night of its cup carnival. Club administrators met with race control staff to review safetyprocedures on Friday night after one of the ...
Winner has the biggest fan club
Mar 04, 2007; ... THEY CONVERGED from all over the course, spilled out on to thetrack to have their photos taken, packed out the victory room andpartied long into the night. The country's happiest syndicate literally took over AlexandraPark on Friday night as they celebrated Changeover's knock 'em ...
MERCEDES DERBY Redoute's 'electric' run
Mar 04, 2007; ... MORE THAN a million dollars in winnings hung in the balanceyesterday after the country's leading jockey Lisa Cropp alleged shesaw winning jockey Vinny Colgan hand a silver electrical device toanother rider on returning to scale on Mercedes Derby winnerRedoute's Dancer. The ...
THESHEEP vTHEGOATS
Mar 04, 2007; ... Football emeritus Steve Braunias previews a crucial month headahead in international soccer. GAMES ON. From this weekend, all of March is fat with football, asthe English Premier League, the FA Cup, the Uefa Champions League andthe European Nations Championship rush towards their ...
APPOINTMENT VIEWING
Mar 04, 2007; ... 1 REAL CRIME: FOUR WEDDINGS AND AN EXECUTION TV One, Wednesday, 9.30pm EVER WONDERED what Rotorua mother of four Coral Branch sees inScott Watson, a convicted double- murderer? With no conjugal rights,most prison romances are sustained by letters and supervised visits ...
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
Mar 04, 2007; ... Retirement is a dumb idea with no place in modern society - and itwill probably hasten your death. So stop dreaming of the day when youstop working, and start living instead, say the authors of a newbook. Anthony Hubbard reports. QUENTIN DOIG had the usual dream ofearly retirement. He ...
RICKARDS -THE INTERVIEW
Mar 04, 2007; ... After 10 not guilty verdicts, Clint Rickards is a free man. Butfor many New Zealanders, his reputation is forever tainted by theaccusation that he is a rapist. In a series of interviews with theSunday Star-Times that began last year, Rickards speaks exclusivelyof the fear he felt at the ...
PIPE DREAMS
Mar 04, 2007; ... After pouring $10 million down an animated drain for the past sixyears, Jim Mora is about to see his cartoon series come up for air,writes Megan Nicol Reed. NATIONAL RADIO listeners may be surprised to learn presenter JimMora spends a hefty chunk of his working day thinking about ...
THE BOX SEAT
Mar 04, 2007; ... YOUNG PEOPLE these days - one minute they're snarling as strangersacross the baggage carousel at the airport, the next they're engagedin still anonymous sex with hot chilli sauce as accompaniment. Ifthat sounds implausible to you, best you avoid TV One's new localdrama The Hothouse, as ...
PROVINCIAL FINANCE The $100m deal that got away
Mar 04, 2007; ... It was all on, and then disaster IT WILL go down as one of theworst business mistakes in New Zealand history. In September 2005, Provincial Finance's majority shareholders JohnEdilson and David Lyall turned down an offer for more than $100million for the firm, the Sunday ...