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19 May 2013

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Updated: 3 April 2013

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Sport Talk
by Paddy Lewis

The stupids have it

Wed 3 April

The Christian tradition of Easter being marked by the over the top purchasing of foil wrapped chocolate was also marked by two sports-related returns…
Sport Talk
by Paddy Lewis

Flyover the death of Basin

Wed 27 March

I  never really gave the Basin Reserve flyover much credence as the idea seemed too nutty for words. It has burbled away at the back of my…
Sport Talk
by Paddy Lewis

Softball rules

Wed 20 March

My eldest son, a child not normally given to emotion, broke down just a wee bit on Saturday after his softball team lost in a tiebreak innings in the…
Sport Talk

Just not cricket

Wed 13 March

There was a funny moment (unless you were the fan concerned) when New Zealand cricket opener Hamish Rutherford sconed a fan with a massive six in the first…
Sport Talk
by Paddy Lewis

Football doldrums

Wed 27 February

My days living in England often saw an overdose of football when it came to the weekends.  This was back in the mid-90s, when live rugby on telly…

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Best of Wellington 2012

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  • Making housing affordable 27/03/2013 10:06:00 a.m. With home ownership rates falling and many struggling to play higher rental costs, making housing affordable has risen to the top of the political agenda.
    Joel Pringle, campaign manager for Australians for Affordable Housing, and Charles Waldegrave, from the Family Centre, will address a meeting as part of a public discussion on housing at Thistle Hall on April 8.
    Waldegrave will look at the human faces of housing unaffordability while Pringle will suggest ways to build public support for affordable housing policies in New Zealand.
  • Food to the rescue 27/03/2013 10:06:00 a.m.
    Food rescue organisation, Kaibosh, has been named supreme winner at the TrustPower National Community Awards.
    The Wellington based service group collaborates with food retailers and producers to rescue surplus food that is good enough to eat, but not good enough to sell, preventing it from being discarded into landfills.
    Since its inception in 2008 Kaibosh has rescued over 285,000 meals – that’s 100 tonnes of food redistributed to where it’s needed most.