Two significant items of economic news came out last week. Food price inflation had risen by 5 per cent over the past year. That would have surprised nobody. Gross domestic product fell by 0.9 per…
Two significant items of economic news came out last week. Food price inflation had risen by 5 per cent over the past year. That would have surprised nobody. Gross domestic product fell by 0.9 per…
We publish two findings by the Media Council today. See: NZ Media Council upholds complaints They have ruled that I have not upheld their principles as editor of Good Local Media. In January I celebrated…
As we are midway through the school holidays, I wanted to highlight a concern around our tamariki (children). School community officers work with local schools to deliver programmes such as “Loves Me Not” and “Keeping…
“Tourists warned of volcano (in capital letters) alert in Spanish holiday hotspot as locals urged to leave homes” This was a headline published a few weeks ago by Great Britain News, and I want to…
Oddly enough, feathers of all sizes, colours and shapes often seem to come ‘across my path’ when I’m out and about. Some are ‘ordinary’, but sometimes I find an extraordinarily beautiful one, which I keep….
The hustings drama moves on towards what I hope will be a more interesting and voter-filled completion. The candidates have been criss-crossing the district making promises that the bulk of them are not capable of…
Whether it was Shirley Julian’s sausage rolls and carrot cake supplied to celebrate her 95th birthday or the promise of a cracking mayoral debate, the reason for the crowd is debatable. But what is certain…
Another tower view Peter Fulton of the Cambridge Water Tower Group puts forward his group’s case for retention of the water tower. Reading between the lines it seems that despite his claim that the tower’s…
I usually start with good catches, but those are just a fraction of the jobs that keep our staff busy. In the past seven days prior to writing, Cambridge police dealt with a bail breach,…
One of the best parts of my work with GeoTenerife in the Canary Islands is working with students. One who stood out immediately was Leah Gomm from the United Kingdom. Her bubbly personality made an…
