The Press back issues from January 2001:
Curtain falls on troubled Dome
Jan 02, 2001 ... Britain's troubled Millennium Dome has closed its doors aftermedia vilification turned it into a huge embarrassment for PrimeMinister Tony Blair. The $US1 billion ($2.3b) attraction on thebanks of the River Thames at ...
Children tracking under fire
Jan 02, 2001 ... High-tech companies are developing devices that use mobile-phoneand satellite technologies to monitor the location and movements ofchildren, prompting a flurry of red flags from privacy advocates. Siemens expects to be the first of the companies to bring such adevice to market, ...
Helping hand for Internet information
Jan 02, 2001 ... A group of libraries from around the world has begun testing theComprehensive Digital Reference Service, a free service that willhelp users find information on the Internet by directing inquiriesto the appropriate library. The Internet often provides too many search results ...
New domain name
Jan 02, 2001 ... The Internet Society of New Zealand has begun public consultationon the first proposal since 1996 to create a new second-leveldomain. The NZ Bankers' Association ...
Services
Jan 02, 2001 ... Alcoholics Anonymous: Telephone 379-0860. Animal emergencies: Help for injured animal, ph 366-3886. Counselling: Lifeline, 24 hours, telephone 366-6743 (city) or 379-5230 (rural); Youthline, 5pm to 11pm, telephone (city) 379-4794 or0800 376-633. Emergency doctor: ...
Woman dies just short of 103
Jan 02, 2001 ... PALMERSTON NORTH -- One of Palmerston North's oldest residentshas died, just a few days short of her 103rd birthday on New Year'sDay. Jean Brown died on December 28 at the Brightwater Centre resthome where she had lived for 14 years. Grandniece Erica White, of Whangarei, ...
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Jan 02, 2001 ... Port of Lyttelton VESSELS IN PORT Om, No. 4 West. Irina Zharkikh, No. 4 West. Ksenia Zharkikh, No. 4 West. Adelaide Pearl, Gladstone Centre. Atria, Z Berth. Gawler, Gladstone Pier Centre. Union Bulk 1&Tug, Gladstone Pier Centre ....
Cold Feet series warms British hearts
Jan 02, 2001 ... England has warmed to Cold Feet. The critically acclaimed dramaseries earned top honours at the British Comedy Awards. The 30-something ITV programme nabbed the prize for best comedy-drama at the awards ceremony, despite a challenge from BBC's TheRoyle Family, which swept the ...
Olsen twins return with series
Jan 02, 2001 ... The Olsen Twins are headed back to television with a new series. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's Dualstar Productions has received a26-episode order for an as yet untitled weekly comedy series todebut in the middle of next year in the United States. The Olsen Twins, best known ...
Actor Azaria back among friends
Jan 02, 2001 ... Emmy Award-winner Hank Azaria will return to play Phoebe's formerboyfriend in the upcoming series of Friends. Azaria, who has also played recurring guest roles on The Simpsonsand Mad About You, will play an American scientist who returns toNew York from his work in Russia ....
TV Picks
Jan 02, 2001 ... SOUTH PARK MARATHON Fans of the outrageous animated series SouthPark are in for a damn fine time on Saturday. Sky 1 will screen allof the original series plus the movie -- South Park: Bigger, Longer,and Uncut -- from 10am through to midnight, depending on whether youhave digital or not ....
Adventure time
Jan 02, 2001; ... Tom Hanks stars in the real-life space adventure Apollo 13 (TV3,Sunday, 8.30pm), while Mulder and Scully take on the fantasy worldin X-Files: The Movie (Sky Movies, today, 8.30pm). Other worthwhilemovies this week are Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth(TV1, today, 1.40pm) and ...
Cheers Doc
Jan 02, 2001; ... Ted Danson hopes to emulate his long run with the comedy Cheerswhen he steps into the shoes of a doctor for his new series, Becker.DANNY WHITTEN reports. Emmy Award-winning actor Ted Danson takes the lead role in TV3'snew comedy series Becker. Danson stars as Dr John ...
Civil rights focus of legal drama
Jan 02, 2001 ... The courtroom and legal offices may be the physical home of theTV1 British series called Fish (Tuesday), but the show is reallyabout civil rights and dysfunctional families. The programme's producer Miriam Segal says the aim was to avoidthe series being "just another courtroom ...
Kids involved with movies
Jan 02, 2001 ... A new American project called Pure Imagination will team youngwriters with big-name screenwriters, stars, and directors who willadapt the children's short stories into mini-movies. Pure Imagination will feature a behind- the-scenes look at thecreative process -- from the ...
Headache for club
Jan 02, 2001 ... European rugby club champion Northampton has run into a residencysnag over Scotland centre and former Otago captain John Leslie.Rugby Football Union officials ruled Leslie out of a game againstWasps -- which Wasps won 21-18 -- saying he was an overseas player,and his playing ...
English money
Jan 02, 2001 ... Sir--Your correspondent William J. McKean (December 18) cites themaxim "treat a pound in England as you would a dollar in NewZealand; it buys about the same". As an Englishman delighted to visit this beautiful country eachyear I am afraid I cannot recognise this maxim. If only it ...
Youths run riot at camp
Jan 02, 2001; ... Terrifying is how Tahuna Beach Holiday Park holidaymakers havedescribed Nelson's New Year's Eve riot, which ended with policeclashing with a drunken mob. One older camper and his wife, who did not want to be named forfear of retaliation, said that for a while they had no idea what ...
Wet, wintry, woeful affair in Square
Jan 02, 2001; ... Christchurch's New Year was a wet, wintry, and woeful affair butit failed to douse the Cantabrian spirit in a dedicated band ofseveral thousand who gathered in Cathedral Square for midnight. Pouring rain and chilling temperatures had caused thecancellation of the concert by ...
A baby worth waiting for
Jan 02, 2001 ... Vanessa Espie was in her 18th hour of labour when her husband,Matthew, started encouraging her to hold off the delivery of theirbaby until midnight. Mrs Espie, the proud mother of the first Cantabrian born in 2001,replied with "a few choice words". Emily Grace Espie, ...
Arson appals fire officer
Jan 02, 2001 ... A Christchurch fire safety officer is struggling to express hisdisbelief at an arson that almost killed an 85-year-old woman in herhome. "How do I feel about it after 31 years as a fire officer?" heasked. "Appalled." The woman was taken to Christchurch Hospital suffering ...
Snow showers cool celebrations
Jan 02, 2001 ... The southerly blast which dampened New Year's Eve celebrationshas also brought unseasonable snow to Canterbury and around thecountry. Tekapo received a few flurries of snow on Sunday night. In thesurrounding hills, the snow added to falls which had dusted theranges the previous ...
Celebrity model finds NZ refuge
Jan 02, 2001 ... LONDON -- British celebrity Paula Hamilton has emigrated to NewZealand, fearing she would die of a drug overdose like her friendPaula Yates if she stayed in England. Hamilton, 39, described by Hello magazine as "the model whoencapsulated the '80s", is living in Nelson. She ...
New kiwi chick thriving
Jan 02, 2001; ... Moata the kiwi chick had the overnight task of dealing with 140earthworms. The hours of darkness will have provided plenty of time for thefledgling kiwi to find and eat the worms carefully placed in itsenclosure at Orana Park yesterday. However, the bird's keeper, Karina ...
Diary
Jan 02, 2001; ... Teen queen TEENS OFTEN earn a bad name in the media, but one Christchurchmother was surprised when her teenage daughter's friends clubbedtogether to give her and her husband flowers and chocolates forChristmas. It was their way of thanking them for the times when theyhad run ...
Storm fronts lash Timaru
Jan 02, 2001 ... Timaru has been cleaning up after a savage hail and lightningstorm lashed it on New Year's Eve. Two storm fronts swept through the city on Sunday afternoon,setting fire to one house, swamping others, cutting power, andflooding two large retail shops. The storm was localised, with ...
Flat damage stuns police
Jan 02, 2001; ... A solo father has begun picking up the pieces after his uninsuredWaltham flat was almost destroyed by a rampage of vandalism whichhas stunned Christchurch police. Liam Edser, 44, arrived home on New Year's Eve to find thatalmost everything inside his Hastings Street East flat had ...
Minister promises to cut health inequality
Jan 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- The Government has promised to reduce healthcareinequality this year with special attention for the mostdisadvantaged. Health Minister Annette King said yesterday it was one of her keypriorities for 2001. "That means giving special attention to those who are ...
Makeshift bomb found near Chch
Jan 02, 2001 ... Forensic experts will examine the remains of a makeshift bombthat was detonated at a residential address in Kainga, 15km north ofChristchurch. Police bomb experts and the Fire Service were called to theSeddon Street house at 12.40pm yesterday after reports that therewas a bottle ...
Couples repeat sunrise vigil
Jan 02, 2001; ... Two couples kept a date on the New Brighton pier as the sun rosefor the first dawn of 2001. A year before, they had stayed up all night playing board gamesand watching parts of the television coverage of the 2000 New Yearcelebrations before going to Brighton beach to watch the ...
Road toll in Canty lowest in 30 years
Jan 02, 2001 ... Canterbury has ended the year 2000 with its lowest road toll in30 years. Canterbury's road toll for the year was 32, compared with 63deaths in 1999. The nationwide road toll of 462 was the lowest in 36 years -- 46fewer than in 1999. The police traffic boss, ...
House destroyed
Jan 02, 2001 ... The Fire Service is investigating a blaze that destroyed anunoccupied house at Little River, on Banks Peninsula. Fire safetyofficer Terry Gibson said a person raised the alarm about 5.50amyesterday from a telephone box at Little River ....
Santas stolen
Jan 02, 2001 ... Wanaka people are angered at the theft of five Santas frombuildings around the town. Twelve figures, each more than a metrehigh, were handmade by Queenstown Lakes District ...
Korean flights
Jan 02, 2001 ... Sir--I was appalled at the headline ("Few regrets at Koreanpullout", December 13) on the impending loss of Korean Air's flightsinto Christchurch. The article showed lack of appreciation of theharm it would do to the feelings of Korean readers, as well as lackof appreciation of the ...
Police target underworld
Jan 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Police are focusing on up to 10 underworld figuresin their hunt for those behind Wellington's $1 million armoured-vanrobbery. Inquiry head Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Vaughan said theOperation Chubb inquiry hotline had logged more than 200 calls and,as a ...
Gun-toting America
Jan 02, 2001 ... One of the horrors of the Massachusetts multiple shootings is thesense of predictability that such events now produce. The UnitedStates is building up such an appalling record of deranged gunmenkilling batches of their fellow citizens that it is difficult torespond adequately. The ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Jan 02, 2001 ... * The proposed Blenheim Road deviation does not solve anyrealistic roading needs and as suggested by independent trafficconsultants Gabites Porter (November 15) will undoubtedly increasecongestion on Riccarton Road. This grandiose and unnecessary "ThinkBig" project is probably more about ...
BEST OF TREMAIN
Jan 02, 2001 ... Garrick Tremain is on holiday. While he is away The Press isreprinting his ...
The Risen Christ
Jan 02, 2001 ... Sir--Your correspondents Denise Lorgelly and David Ellison(December 30) both express concern that the new sculpture of theRisen Christ was described by the artist Terry Stringer as "notmeant to be Him". Unlike the artists who sculpted the statue of Godley and otherhistoric ...
Bible teaching
Jan 02, 2001 ... Sir--The Rev Stephen Baxter (December 23) is a further sad caseof a so-called minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. With his past views and now citing that "the virgin birth is notliterally true" claiming it a myth (December 23), I do not know howhe can be continually accepted ...
US election
Jan 02, 2001 ... Sir--I would like to express my thanks to the United States forhighlighting what not to do in an election. Others have focused on their propensity for litigation, thedubious counting of votes, a system that is hyper-sensitive tooutcomes in some regions, politically tainted control ...
Upton's parting shots
Jan 02, 2001; ... SIMON UPTON says he came to Parliament too young and decided sometime ago to leave before he was too old. In this excerpt from hisvaledictory speech, he offers some parting shots on ourrelationships with each other, the environment, and the world. I grew up in the 1960s listening ...
A bit of paint and a gladiator
Jan 02, 2001; ... The former artistic director of the Court Theatre, ELRIC HOOPER,and New Zealand women's hockey representative ANNA LAWRENCE offertheir verdicts on the year 2000. . Elric Hooper Court Theatre Artistic Director * Most memorable personal event Standing ...
Mighty salmon river steals fishing couple's hearts
Jan 02, 2001; ... Bruce Chibnall is a man of the sea and of the river, and life atthe Rangitata river mouth has stolen his heart. It has also stolen the heart of his wife, Shirley. As a child she felt the river's pull as she played on the Timaruside of the big salmon river. Over the river, on ...
Man escapes as car lands in river
Jan 02, 2001 ... A Murchison man is lucky to be alive after his car plunged 50mdown a bank and into the Buller River. Senior Constable AllenPeacock, of the Murchison police, said the 34-year-old man wasdriving along State Highway 65, about 20km south of Murchison, at11am on Friday when he stopped to look ...
Asthmatic safe after hail hits trampers
Jan 02, 2001 ... An asthmatic man trapped in a hail flurry on Mount Somers haswalked out with his tramping party after a night in the bush.Sergeant Roy Appley, of the police southern communications centre,said the man was reported yesterday to be suffering fromhypothermia. A ...
Assault charge laid after bonfire fracas
Jan 02, 2001 ... A 27-year-old Ashburton man has been charged with assault after afracas involving two bonfires lit during a total fire ban in theMackenzie Country. Senior Constable Ian Napier, of Tekapo, said aBurkes Pass farmer was assaulted after he investigated two fires liton his farm early on New ...
Youths blame police for riot
Jan 02, 2001; ... Youths involved in Nelson's New Year's Eve riot at Tahuna HolidayCamp say police actions led to the clash, which resulted in 40arrests. The young campers' version of events appears to differ from thatof other observers. A Christchurch youth who had been batoned across his ...
Govt promises aid as fire hot spots doused
Jan 02, 2001; ... A concerted effort has been made to extinguish hot spots aroundthe 64km perimeter of the Wither Hills fire south of Blenheim beforethe scaling down of the fire control operation. A helicopter with an infra-red camera was used to identify thehot spots in both the Wither Hills fire ...
Teenager killed walking along Wanaka road
Jan 02, 2001; ... Wanaka holidaymakers say the death of a Dunedin teenager on StateHighway 84 early yesterday comes as no surprise. Crowds of drunken young people thronged the main highway betweenLake Hawea and Wanaka for hours before Dion Russell Wells, 19, washit while walking on the road about ...
Gathering looks at northern move
Jan 02, 2001; ... Problems with local authorities may force the Gathering to movenorth next year. On New Year's Eve, more than 13,000 young people danced untildawn, unaware that this may have been their last Gathering in theSouth Island. Gathering company chief Murray Kingi said the new site ...
Man remanded after death of woman
Jan 02, 2001 ... A man has been remanded in custody after appearing in court on acharge relating to the death of Aucklander Margaret Waterhouse. The34-year-old man was charged with assaulting Ms Waterhouse. He did not plead when he appeared at ...
Late-night news revamp for TVNZ
Jan 02, 2001 ... A revamped late-night news programme is among the changes plannedfor Television New Zealand's news and current affairs this year.TVNZ chairman Ross Armstrong has confirmed that a new-look late-night news programme, featuring live interviews and in-depthstories, would begin in the third ...
Masked, armed men hit Auckland TAB
Jan 02, 2001 ... Two masked and armed men stole between $5000 and $10,000 afterconfronting a lone woman manager at Avondale's TAB. Police said thewoman was "badly shaken and very upset" after the hold-up on Sundaymorning. A male manager arrived at the TAB a short time after the robbery.Detective ...
Chch man shot with airgun in Dunedin
Jan 02, 2001 ... An 18-year-old Christchurch man has been shot in the head,apparently by a child using an air rifle or pistol, in Dunedin.Police said the shooting happened about 11.30am yesterday on GeorgeStreet, Dunedin's main street. The man had pulled over to do a U-turn and put his head out ...
Eight tickets share main Lotto prize
Jan 02, 2001 ... Ticketholders from Auckland (four), Whakatane, Gisborne,Christchurch, and Gore each won $625,000 as their share of the bigLotto prize from draw No. 704 on Saturday. Winning numbers: 1 12 3032 36 40. Bonus: 10. Prize values and number of winners. -- Division one: $625,000(eight) ....
Firefighters test muscles to rescue injured man
Jan 02, 2001 ... Easy does it: Station Officer Denis Fitzmaurice, left, and SeniorFirefighters Roger Woods and Murray Selwyn lower an elderly man witha dislocated hip from his second-floor flat on ...
Top award for Geering draws fire
Jan 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Professor Lloyd Geering's New Year's honour is aslap in the face to a Christian church that is increasingly beingsidelined by the Government, conservative church leaders say. The Wellington theologian, who in 1967 was contentiouslyacquitted of heresy by the ...
Busy day for rescue unit
Jan 02, 2001 ... The WestpacTrust rescue helicopter's quiet Christmas season endedabruptly on New Year's Eve with three rescues in quick succession. The helicopter had had no call-outs on Christmas Day, and onlyone each on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. The quiet time ended on Sunday with ...
US pair surf Net for Chch wedding
Jan 02, 2001; ... Julie and Sean Humphrey believe they might be the first Americansin the world to be married in the new millennium after travellingthousands of kilometres to Christchurch to get hitched. Debate has raged over when the new millennium officially started,but the Humphreys were in no ...
GPs 'unhelpful' about menopause
Jan 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Middle-aged women needing advice on menopause andhormone replacement therapy (HRT) are not finding much help fromfamily doctors, according to a new Massey University study. Doctors were often "not interested", "unhelpful" or "not wantingto listen", the survey of ...
Historic boat abandoned
Jan 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- A historic kauri- timbered launch, trying to repeata circumnavigation of New Zealand it made 75 years ago, has beenabandoned 160km out to sea off Raglan. The five men on the 13m Ruamano were taken off the launch by aKorea- bound log carrier at 4am yesterday after ...
Solo yachtsman ends race in Bluff
Jan 02, 2001 ... INVERCARGILL -- A solo round-the-world race came to a bitterlydisappointing end for a French yachtsman when he arrived in Bluff. Thierry Dubois, 33, was forced to pull out of the Vendee Globerace after the electrical systems on his yacht Solidaires failedabout a week ago ....
Compaq training centre
Jan 02, 2001 ... Compaq New Zealand has set up a customer and partner trainingcentre, offering training and accredited professional programmes onproducts ...
Graphics firms merge
Jan 02, 2001 ... Chip-maker Nvidia has bought out rival 3dfx Interactive for$US70m ($NZ158m) in another consolidation of the ...