Sunday Star-Times back issues from October 2007:
Med students face expulsion for cheating
Oct 07, 2007; ... UP TO 30 Auckland University medical students are beinginvestigated for allegedly cheating - potentially ending theirmedical careers. Some of the students are believed to have faked patient details ina project on mothers and babies. The university has launched an inquiry ...
Schoolboy sleepwalking when he fell to his death
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE AUCKLAND schoolboy who died when he fell from the fourth floorof his hotel in London two weeks ago was sleepwalking. Ross Kimpton, 17, was on a Howick College 1st XV tour of Englandand Ireland when he fell from the fourth- storey window of The Lodgein Norfolk Square. He and ...
MORTGAGE WAENING: Are you in too deep?
Oct 07, 2007 ... Houses have become so unaffordable that the 100% mortgage is fastbecoming the norm for first ...
Personality scores more council votes than politics
Oct 07, 2007; ... VOTED FOR a local body candidate you've never heard of yet? Ortried to rank health board aspirants in order of merit? I sent my papers back last week after deciding to vote only forcandidates I'd met. It made the job surprisingly simple. And with onehealth board candidate a close ...
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Oct 07, 2007 ... Fire fatality A WOMAN died last night when a fire broke out in aNorthland RSA pensioner flat. The Kaikohe fire service was called at10.22pm by a resident of a nearby flat who said they could see smoke.Volunteer firefighters were told someone was in the building whenthey arrived seven ...
Fumigator gas is toxic to humans
Oct 07, 2007 ... A LOT of products are fumigated to get rid of bugs - timber,imported cars even some foods. But what does the gas, methyl bromide,do to humans? Rod Vaughan of 60 Minutes has been investigating. One dock workersays he was driving a forklift while wood was being fumigated and ...
EDITOR'S PICKS
Oct 07, 2007 ... WHEN WE began Bruce Ansley's European canal-boating series inAugust, it became a destination read in the Escape section in moreways than one. His wry and beautifully-written observations from thedeck of the River Queen over three countries, 1560km and through 376locks captured the ...
Family talking
Oct 07, 2007 ... THE TWO sides of the late James Takamore's divided family gatheredyesterday for the first time since his death in August. Takamore'sbody was taken from Christchurch where his partner and children ...
Dewar to appeal
Oct 07, 2007 ... FORMER POLICEMAN John Dewar will appeal his conviction and four-and-a-half year prison sentence for his corrupt handling of LouiseNicholas's rape ...
Stamp bonanza
Oct 07, 2007 ... UPSIDE DOWN stamps depicting Kiwi Olympic hero Peter Snell soldfor $30,000 at an auction last night. The anonymous woman sellerbought 22 of the $2 stamps ...
Bat attack
Oct 07, 2007 ... A 22-YEAR-OLD Hawera man has been charged with assaulting a NewPlymouth police officer with a baseball bat on Friday night. Theofficer, who suffered severe ...
Landslip lake holds, lures lookers
Oct 07, 2007; ... NEW ZEALAND'S newest lake has burst its dam but the fearedcatastrophic collapse now seems less likely. Officials have been keeping a nervous watch on the 2.5km lake inthe Mt Aspiring National Park amid fears the dam created by alandslip would collapse, sending thousands of cubic ...
Teens face zero limit in alcohol crackdown
Oct 07, 2007; ... Raft of laws to hit underage drinking ADULTS WHO supply youngpeople with alcohol will be targeted by a government crackdown onteen drinkers. The measures would also slash to zero the blood alcohol limit fordrivers under 20. However, still smarting from accusations it ...
Pumpkin may return for Kiwi education
Oct 07, 2007; ... ABANDONED THREE-YEAR-OLD Qian Xun Xue is likely to return to NewZealand or Australia for some of her schooling, according to aspokesman. Qian's maternal grandmother, Liu Xiao Ping, was given guardianshiplast week and the pair are likely to return to China soon. Principal ...
MATES TRIED TO SAVE HIM
Oct 07, 2007; ... Equipment failure could be blamed for fatal naval accident, writesCatherine Woulfe . -------------------- FOUR NAVY sailors who leapedoff the HMNZS Canterbury and into the sea to try to save a drowningshipmate are likely to have their heroism formally recognised,officials say ....
Shooter cop's message to dead man's family
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE POLICE officer who gunned down a hammer-wielding man in asuburban Christchurch street has broken his silence to pass on hiscondolences to the dead man's family. "Could you please pass on my respects to the Bellingham family,"the officer asked the Sunday Star- Times when we ...
100% loans new norm for buyers
Oct 07, 2007; ... But esperts warn of risks HOUSES HAVE become so unaffordable thatmany mortgage brokers say the 100% loan is fast becoming the norm forfirst homebuyers. But financial experts are warning against the 100% mortgages,saying softening house prices could leave buyers owing more money ...
Teen returns to school after freak accident
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE AUCKLAND schoolboy seriously injured in a freak pedestriancrossing accident involving a police car returns to school tomorrow -but for only an hour. And police will decide in the next fortnight if the officerdriving the car will be prosecuted. Mt Roskill Grammar student ...
'I got it wrong' admits Undie 500 rally riot cop
Oct 07, 2007; ... ONE OF Dunedin's top policemen has admitted police didn't haveenough staff working the weekend the annual student Undie 500 carrally erupted in riots. The specially-authorised Operation Undie 500 squad had only 36staff, with just 15 rostered on beyond 11pm on Saturday, August 25 ....
Tax cuts unlikely before 2009 - Cullen
Oct 07, 2007; ... Wait until May's budget for fine print --------------------FINANCE MINISTER Dr Michael Cullen will give taxpayers their firstglimpse of likely tax cut details by Christmas. Cullen said he would make announcements in December laying out"the range and shape of options" ....
BIG KNICKERS: BIG SELLERS
Oct 07, 2007; ... Super knickers, super shape . . . super shock for a date, maybe,writes Kim Knight . -------------------- STRAPPY HEELS - check. Clingy dress - check. Suck-it-in, hike-it-up stretchy lycra lingerie? Not until January,says the local manufacturer who has sold out of ...
Who'll be first past the post?
Oct 07, 2007; ... PLEASE NOTE: FOR GRAPHIC, 'HOW THE CITIES STACK UP' SEE HARDCOPY,PAGE A7. Esther Harward looks at the close races in next week'slocal body elections and says voters will have to be strategic at theballot box. -------------------- THE RACE for a seat on localcouncils is in the home ...
Frost may get chilly response; Book says breast isn't always best
Oct 07, 2007; ... JO FROST - famous for taming toddlers on television - has turnedher attention to newborns. But that doesn't mean 37-year- old Frost, who has no children nora current partner, can feel her own biological clock ticking. And she says she doesn't have to be a mother to be an ...
HOW DOES WINNIE WORK?
Oct 07, 2007; ... Winston Peters was a controversial choice as foreign affairsminister two years ago. How has he done - and how long will he stay? Anthony Hubbard reports. MANY JEERED when Winston Peters acceptedthe bauble of high office. The critics said he was impossible. Thedemagogue wouldn't make a ...
Get real: realtors' code is not working
Oct 07, 2007 ... REAL ESTATE agents are not widely loved as individuals. As aprofessional body, they are ridiculous. The Real Estate Institute'sdecision to hear a complaint against the dissident realtor TheJoneses is a case in point. The Joneses' Chris Taylor had said:"People are paying too much to sell ...
Deciding the shape of rugby to come
Oct 07, 2007; ... Greg Ford examines what the rugby world may look like when thenext world cup rolls around in 2011. -------------------- IT WAS on,and then off. A few days later it was on again, definitely. Then, the"final" word came through, it's off. Always was. In the murky old world of rugby ...
Lee sends up a Magpie cheer; Born-again Bay face Mooloo challenge
Oct 07, 2007; ... BIG CLASH Hawkes Bay v Waikato McLean Park, Napier, 2.30pm TAB:Waikato $1.55, Hawke's Bay $2.35 -------------------- HAWKE'S BAY arewithout their inspirational captain Danny Lee for their Air NewZealand Cup quarter-final against Waikato this afternoon but chancesare his voice will still ...
Fiji nobbled by visa hassles before NZ clash
Oct 07, 2007; ... FIJI HAS run into visa problems before the Oceania World Cupqualifying opener against the All Whites, with the squad unlikely tomake it to New Zealand until late this week. Experienced coach Juan Carlos Buzzetti, who guided Vanuatu to ashock 4-2 win over New Zealand four years ago ...
Felipe could miss two games
Oct 07, 2007 ... BRAZILIAN PLAYMAKER Felipe could miss the next two games forWellington Phoenix after injuring his left hamstring in the 2-1 lossto Queensland Roar in Brisbane on Friday night. "He's tight and sore and there's sensitivity around it. A veryquick assumption is that it could be a ...
99 OR 100?
Oct 07, 2007; ... OFFICIALS ARE quietly disputing the official title of Sunday's NewZealand-Australia test match in Wellington, with Australia refusingto refer it as the Centenary Test. The ARL has instead designated next May's trans- Tasman test asits centenary fixture, as it considers league in ...
ITCH THAT GARY CAN SCRATCH
Oct 07, 2007; ... Kiwis coach Gary Kemble is enjoying the seven year itch. SteveKilgallon reports. -------------------- GARY KEMBLE and his half-smile have been rarely parted for the past seven weeks, a loststruggle to contain the excitement that comes with something that hasbeen seven years in the ...
The gold is back on Kiwi soil
Oct 07, 2007; ... Steve Kilgallon meets the new Kiwis winger who thought he'dalready done his dash for the season. -------------------- PROUDFATHER Bruce Covell is travelling from the remote goldmines of PapuaNew Guinea to Wellington this week, and it's going to take him fourdays to get there. It's a ...
Johnston sees the ashes but no phoenix
Oct 07, 2007; ... Northern League viability 'precarious' "I'M PUBLIC enemy numberone," says Keith Johnston, with a happy smile that demonstrates howlittle he cares about that. Johnston, who rather resembles the British comedy actor JimBroadbent, is the chief executive of United Soccer 1, which ...
Tua's camp hopes to line up 'Tank'
Oct 07, 2007; ... DAVID TUA could be ready to face his first serious opponent infour years, marking the real start of his final tilt at a worldtitle. The Sunday Star-Times has learnt that the Tua camp has beennegotiating with the Bahamian- born Sherman "the Caribbean Tank"Williams, rated 69th in ...
HOW'S DAN DR DEB?
Oct 07, 2007; ... Greg Ford meets a team doctor who deftly avoids being stitchedup. -------------------- IT'S EARLY afternoon. We meet in the hotellobby. A few All Blacks are milling about and after some small talkabout Dan Carter's calf muscle we find a corner in the bar and take aseat. A table ...
Evans above, pick Nick ahead of fancy Dan
Oct 07, 2007; ... N OT IN CARDIFF THIS week, don't care. The Rolling Stones oncedescribed Invercargill as the arsehole of the universe. If that's thecase then Cardiff is the toilet of the universe. OK, you Welsh people out there, you can pipe down, it's not thatbad for a city full of drunks ...
DOG HEAVEN
Oct 07, 2007; ... Dog is dead. Long live Dog. Thirteen years after Footrot Flats waslaid to rest, the repackaging of New Zealand's favourite agriculturalfantasy continues. But will anyone be able to afford (or even lift)the latest gargantuan compilation? Cartoonist Murray Ball talks to Adam Dudding about ...
A YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
Oct 07, 2007; ... A year after the 460km/h crash that left Top Gear's RichardHammond in a coma, he talks to Adam Dudding about the problem withhaving the memory of a goldfish, and the problem with having thememory of a goldfish. -------------------- RICHARD HAMMOND'S returnto British TV show Top Gear ...
MEDIABITES
Oct 07, 2007; ... The NZ DOLLAR surged again on the back of a weak US dollar and positive economicnews. An EARTHQUAKE measuring Richter 7.4, which struck in the Southern Ocean about200km from the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands, was widely feltthroughout the lower ...
SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE; COUNCILS' POWER TO SPEND YOUR RATES
Oct 07, 2007; ... As we count local council election votes, we may also count thecost of council-owned shares. Is council investment in anything otherthan traditional public amenities going outside their mandate? JenniMcManus reports. -------------------- TIMES WERE, ratepayers wereclear about the ...
ICE BREAKERS
Oct 07, 2007; ... On September 24, Christchurch adventurers Graham Charles andMarcus Waters became the first New Zealanders to trek across theworld's largest island, Greenland. But their 35-day icecap epicproved brutal to body and soul. Deidre Mussen reports. -------------------- IMAGINE STRIDING on a ...
picture books
Oct 07, 2007; ... FLICK THE LITTLE FIRE ENGINE Adaptation by Jamie Lawrence Puffin,$12.95 (includes CD) -------------------- ANYONE WHO used to listento kids' stories on Sunday morning radio in bygone years will recallthe story of little Flick. But until now, there has actually been nobook available about ...
Retail 'gorilla' alarms rivals
Oct 07, 2007; ... AUSTRALIAN RETAIL giant Harvey Norman could be the next owner ofNoel Leeming and Bond & Bond despite its denials on Friday. JB HiFi boss Richard Uechtritz, himself seen as a potential buyer,said he believed the deal was as good as done. "We have heard it on pretty good ...
National: More debt better than more tax
Oct 07, 2007; ... Labour is hoarding cash - English NATIONAL FINANCE spokesman BillEnglish has signalled his party would increase government borrowingto invest in infrastructure such as roads and water. He told the Sunday Star-Times the move was viable becausegovernment borrowing was lower than ...
WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?
Oct 07, 2007; ... The start of the journey into adulthood for children gets earlierby the decade, writes Jenny Macintyre . -------------------- PUBERTYIS beginning in New Zealand girls as young as seven and experts saythe main reasons are good health - but also obesity. Auckland University ...
Four week limit for Sky City bid
Oct 07, 2007; ... CEO candidates lined up if takeover fails SKY CITY expects tohave a firm offer price from its mystery suitor within the next fourweeks, says acting chief executive Elmar Toime. He also expects the proceeds from any sale of its troublesomeAdelaide casino to be returned to ...
'Minnow' sets new debenture standard
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE NEW high water mark for finance company debentures is 12%,after consumer lending minnow Finance Direct boosted its 12-monthrate today by more than two percentage points in an effort to attractinvestors. The 12% offer is well above rates available from other financecompanies ...
Funding dilemma for local councils
Oct 07, 2007; ... Borrow from ratepayers, or from bankers? WHILE LOCAL council debtlooks set to increase in an attempt to curb rate rises, prospects forsmall investors being able to invest in a new raft of super-safelocal government stock is far less clear. Changes to securities legislation, due ...
KIWI GIRL CATCHES EYE OF AUSSIE GIANT
Oct 07, 2007; ... A MAJOR media company - thought to be ACP Media - is understood tobe close to buying online magazine nzgirl.co.nz. The Sunday Star-Times understands an offer of more than $5 millionhas been made for nzgirl, and the two parties are in the final stagesof sealing the deal ....
Credit unions fear tax review
Oct 07, 2007; ... FEARS ARE rising among credit unions that they could lose theirtax-free status in the pursuit of the freedom to compete moreeffectively with the banks. Over the last 10 years the credit union sector, made up ofmutually-owned lenders often based on employee groups, has shrunk ...
Loan product appeals to group buyers
Oct 07, 2007; ... BankDirect launches shared home loans BANKDIRECT, THE internetand phone banking subsidiary of ASB, has launched New Zealand's firstpackaged shared home loan. Bank head Stuart McKinnon, who took over last year, said the movewas designed to "normalise" shared home loans, as it had ...
POULTRY RETURNS
Oct 07, 2007; ... IT'S PRETTY easy to save on the household grocery bill by keepingchickens in the backyard. But for most people, introducing a slice of The Good Life may bemore about fun and knowing where your eggs come from than cheap eggs. No one really knows how many backyard poultry ...
The decline of the claim decline
Oct 07, 2007; ... Ombudsman keeps insurers honest THE LITTLE guy can take on giantinsurance companies and win, according to the Insurance & SavingsOmbudsman. Its annual report, published on Tuesday, features several caseswhere insurers were forced to back down, including a woman wronglyaccused ...
Golden mile gem gets to stay a bar
Oct 07, 2007; ... The Met sells for the do-up price THE PREMISES of one thecountry's plushest bars has been sold for $2.55 million. The price is probably a bargain, because it is believed to beabout the same amount that was spent fitting out the bar five yearsago. The property is a ...
A MIGHTY HEART
Oct 07, 2007; ... (M - offensive language, content may disturb) starring AngelinaJolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi. Directed Michael Winterbottom.108 minutes. Opens Thursday. * * * 1/2 -------------------- THERE AREcontrasts aplenty in A Mighty Heart. The calm of the modern, walledhouse in Karachi ...
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Oct 07, 2007; ... LA VIE EN ROSE (M - offensive language and sexual references)starring Marion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu. Directed by OlivierDahan. 140 minutes. Playing now. * * * * --------------------SOMETIMES A performance in a film is so powerful and diverting thatthe ensemble is left in shadow ....
SPOILT FOR CHOICE
Oct 07, 2007; ... THERE NOW appear to be 23 different types of home loan on themarket for home buyers, home builders and investors. If you know of any other variations, please let us know byemailing: rob.stock@star- times.co.nz. Traditional fixed rate home loan AN ORDINARY table ...
Y NOT?
Oct 07, 2007; ... Bonnie Sumner talks to the pranksters behind the hellishly goodnew local movie, The Devil Dared Me To. -------------------- IT TAKESa bit of searching but here they are, finally, deep in the heart ofindustrial West Auckland, dressed like the remnants of a dirtyrock'n'roll band (which ...
Novel thoughts
Oct 07, 2007; ... BRAZIL CAFE closed last Sunday. I'm not completely sure why. But Iliked it - I'll miss it. They made very strong coffee. Strong as in darkly roasted, orstrong because there was lots of caffeine in it - again, I'm notsure. But a latte from Brazil did different things to you. It ...
THE WEEK AHEAD
Oct 07, 2007; ... PLEASE NOTE: ELECTRONIC VERSION NOT AVAILABLE AS PAGE WAS CREATEDUSING INDESIGN. PLEASE SEE HARD COPY FOR FULL TEXT. Are our ...
Silver it is
Oct 07, 2007 ... IT MIGHT be immaterial by the time you read this, but the AllBlack jersey debacle was finally resolved last night, just 11 hoursbefore this morning's Rugby World Cup quarter- final against Francein Cardiff. The farce rumbled all week, but confirmation that the All ...
Officer's fate
Oct 07, 2007 ... AN UNNAMED Christchurch police officer being investigated forsexual offences should learn this week if he will be charged.Thesexual allegations led to a graffiti attack during which an associateof the alleged victim spraypainted eight properties in Addington,believing one was owned by ...
Hastings arrests
Oct 07, 2007 ... HASTINGS POLICE yesterday arrested seven people for disorder,fighting and obstruction at the Kelt Capital Spring Carnival. Policesaid the arrests related to heavy drinking at the popular horseracing event. One young woman was found lying drunk in the middle ...
MATES TRIED TO SAVE HIM
Oct 07, 2007; ... Equipment failure could be blamed for fatal naval accident, writesCatherine Woulfe . -------------------- FOUR NAVY sailors who leapedoff the HMNZS Canterbury and into the sea to try to save a drowningshipmate are likely to have their heroism formally recognised,officials say ....
PARTY PILL PIONEER'S BZP BAN WORRIES
Oct 07, 2007; ... Logan Miller had been worried about the future of his businesswrite Leigh van der Stoep and Emma Page -------------------- PARTYPILL magnate Logan Millar had been exploring international marketsfor his products before his sudden death at his $3 million Aucklandhome on Wednesday ....