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CHRISTCHURCH — A Christchurch retailer has beaten the odds to be named as a finalist in the Ernst and Young New Zealand entrepreneur of the year awards.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Timber from Sumner and Mt Pleasant homes crushed in the February 22 earthquake last year have been recycled and finely shaped for an emotional art exhibition which opens in Christchurch on Saturday.
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An Australian clinical study trial has found Christchurch-made green shell mussel extract product to be more beneficial for arthritic conditions than glucosamine.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Two special commemoration tribute shows dedicated to the late dancer director Sheryl Robinson will be staged at the Hagley Community College in Christchurch this weekend.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A major art exhibition poignantly paying homage to Christchurch will be emotional for everyone who visits it at the Bryce Gallery in Riccarton next week.
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Christchurch’s Ruby Turnbull has won the Queensland state under-13 squash championships on the Gold Coast.
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A London-based online luxury shopping mall was today launched across Australia bringing 100 of the best designers and labels from around the world.
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Special Education principals today urged the Government to retain some residential facilities around the country.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Despite battling through earthquakes and an initial slump of visiting tourists, a Christchurch luxury bed and breakfast has been named in the top 10 places to stay in the South Pacific, including Australia.
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KAIKOURA — A Kaikoura woman is possibly the first artist in New Zealand to have her paintings digitised and printed onto white and stainless steel, using cutting edge technology.
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The Boot near Nelson has been name the most unusual place to stay in New Zealand, according to an author and travel writer who stays at the most unusual places around New Zealand.
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A Kiwi in London has today launched an online shopping mall for women keen on the top international fashion labels.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Leading New Zealand builder David Reid today suggested Queenstown’s example of how to produce a large stock of affordable housing could be the key to earthquake-recovering Christchurch’s affordable housing shortage.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Significant law change may need to be introduced for earthquake recovering Christchurch to accelerate an urgent residential rebuild, a leading builder said today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Significant law change may need to be introduced for earthquake recovering Christchurch to accelerate an urgent residential rebuild, a leading builder said today.
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Possibly first ever golf clubs made in New Zealand will come under the hammer at Sotheby’s auction in London in a fortnight.
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HANMER SPRINGS — Shut your eyes.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Latest cutting-edge designed prefab houses will provide a safer future for earthquake-hit Christchurch people, PrefabNZ chief executive Pamela Bell said today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A Christchurch lingerie and swimwear store which rose rapidly from the September 2010 earthquake has just won a major Recover Canterbury award for its tenacity and resourcefulness.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Many Christchurch emergency and rescue workers, police, ambulance, fire and hospital staff traumatised by the initial events and efforts following February 22's earthquake are still struggling a year on, according to a group of counsellors.
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The needs of young people in families coping with mental illness are the primary focus this week of the annual Schizophrenia Awareness Week.
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CHRISTCHURCH — An international medical magazine has published a study on New Zealand's freeze-dried mussel powder produced in Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Seven hand-made guitars commemorating the loss of life and buildings in the Christchurch earthquakes fetched total of $111,000 at an auction in Christchurch at the weekend.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch secondary school drama teacher Robert Gilbert has had a tortuous 12 months since his son Jaime, 22, was killed by falling masonry outside the Iconic Bar in Manchester St on February 22 last year.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Today is a day for recalling the terrifying events of February 22 last year but mental anguish and post-traumatic stress disorder have rocketed in Christchurch since the earthquakes began.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Seven hand-made guitars commemorating the loss of life and buildings in the Christchurch earthquakes will be sold at a live auction and cocktail evening in Christchurch on Friday.
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CHRISTCHURCH — As a former UK-Europe Bureau Chief NZPA media correspondent, Kip Brook is no stranger to putting his thoughts into words following a crisis.
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New Zealand singer Keith Lewis will perform at a special Wathen Hall concert in St Paul’s School, London, on February 27.
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QUEENSTOWN — It’s like a dream come true.
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Kent Gardner, who helped raise funds for the Canterbury earthquake appeal, was today named the UK New Zealander of the Year 2012 winner at a gala function in London.
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CHRISTCHURCH — More than 50 structural engineers, geotech experts and architects will thrash out how Christchurch can rebuild on its soft land at an international workshop next Monday.
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US-based Kiwi singer /songwriter Jackie Bristow will make a flying visit this month with her Coming Home New Zealand 13-gig tour.
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Rebuilding in Christchurch red zone and crumpled CBD is absolutely possible, a global structural earthquake engineering rebuild expert says.
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Kent Gardener Kent is a founding partner and chief executive of property fund manager Evans Randall.
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KAIKOURA — A major art exhibition including a work dedicated to the Christchurch earthquake has opened in Kaikoura.
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CHRISTCHURCH — It could be decades before life in Christchurch returns to normal, a Californian earthquake says.
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CHRISTCHURCH — An international workshop is being arranged for mid-February to help the Christchurch rebuild by placing new structures lightly on the land.
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KAIKOURA — Possibly New Zealand’s only restaurant and dance studio will open in Kaikoura tomorrow.
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‘Mind the gap between the train and the platform edge’ ...ah, the old London tube message: don’t you just love the place.
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OAMARU — Oamaru is as wonderfully anachronistic as a 21st century tourist attraction as fax machines are to businesses.
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Kirsty Nixon, one of New Zealand’s foremost artists portraying iconic Kiwi beach and coastal scenes, is staging her biggest solo exhibition in Devonport during the final weeks of the Rugby World Cup tournament.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A leading New Zealand greenstone carver is gifting a significant and commemorative pounamu koru sculpture to the people of Christchurch as a symbol to guard over the earthquake-hit city.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch people have not fully comprehended the damage to their city and the impact of missing out on hosting Rugby World Cup games, an international sports expert says.
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KAWERAU — Two of New Zealand's best comedians, the Laughing Samoans, will headline a special comedy concert to be held in Kawerau on September 24.
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AUCKLAND — Many of New Zealand's most celebrated editorial newspaper cartoonists including former New Zealand cricketer Murray Webb will feature in this year's Auckland Grammar School art expo which opens on Friday night.
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World Cup winning All Black Bernie McCahill who used to sprint across the turf at Eden Park is these days turning his safe hands to the business of lawn mowing.
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World Cup winning All Black Bernie McCahill who used to sprint across the turf at Eden Park is these days turning his safe hands to the business of lawn mowing.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The first steps have been taken in a bid to set up the first community village inside Christchurch’s quake-hit central business district.
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AUCKLAND — More than 120 artists from all over the country will take part in one of the biggest New Zealand school art events, the 15th annual Carmel College exhibitions in Auckland on August 12-14.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A group of artists nationwide has collaborated their works into one giant piece for charity to be unveiled at the Mairangi Art Centre in Auckland on July 26.
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AUCKLAND — Poor Auckland: they've been missing out.
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TAUPO — About 50 people and more than 100 dogs will take part in the gruelling New Zealand sled dog championships in the Kaiangaroa forest near Taupo next month.
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DUNEDIN — Kaikoura’s international artist Ruth Stirnimann will fittingly stage a major geometric art exhibition at the New Zealand maths teachers’ conference in Dunedin next month.
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QUEENSTOWN — This has been the most unusual winter for Queenstown, the adventure capital of the world.
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CANTERBURY — At last New Zealand tourism has got some great news.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The 800 hectare Bottle Lake Forest 10km north east of central Christchurch should be urgently investigated as a safe option for relocating the quake hit Christchurch eastern suburbs.
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CHRISTCHURCH — An Australian clinical study trial of a Christchurch-made green shell mussel health product has found arthritic conditions improved by 43 percent for people taking the supplement.
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CHRISTCHURCH — - By Kip Brook, Word of Mouth Media NZ And so it is, after 100 days, the grim statistics and warnings of possible more big ones to come keep mounting for hundreds of thousands of February 22 Christchurch earthquake victims.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch has a huge opportunity to reinstate as the best garden city in the world again, as it begins the unprecedented city-rebuild after being shattered by the February 22 earthquake.
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RUSSELL — I could hear the waves below washing over the golden sands along Long Beach, massaging my mind and soul.
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New Zealand will take part in the Asia-Pacific little league baseball tournament in Dededo, Guam in July.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Simple yoga techniques will significantly ease many of Christchurch earthquake-shaken residents’ post traumatic stress disorders so they can take control of their lives again, a leading expert said today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The rebuild of the Christchurch central business district (CBD) should be up to tree-height, seldom higher than four storeys, a leading New Zealand landscape architect Di Lucas said today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch’s earthquake-battered central business district (CBD) should not be rebuilt back to what it was before February 22, one of New Zealand’s leading landscape architects Di Lucas said today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — They talk about the recovery and the rebuild.
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ASHBURTON — A compelling exhibition of facial moko film and photos will be launched at the Ashburton art gallery this weekend.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Earthquake-devastated Christchurch today is the only city in the world without a central business district.
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CHRISTCHURCH — This was the most relaxing, cathartic and re-energising but surreal holiday ever, after a devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A national barter company has set up a website www.mychristchurchbusinessisopen.co.nz to help businesses and customers resuming trading after the February 22 earthquake destroyed the central business district.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Urgent support needs to go out to Christchurch people with a mental health illness in the wake of last month’s devastating earthquake, Supporting Families in Mental Illness New Zealand (SFNZ) spokesman Jim Crowe said today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch was known as the most English of New Zealand cities.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Merivale’s supermarket is open again and fully stocked including big water bottles.
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CHRISTCHURCH — This is a war zone; but no sign of the enemy.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The Sex Show, one of the raunchiest theatre shows ever to be seen on a New Zealand stage, will open next week as part seen of Auckland’s fringe festival.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Afternoon tea with Prime Minister or Dan Carter’s signed rugby boot are just two of a host of auctions at possibly the biggest charity-fund-raiser for the Pike River will be held in Christchurch next week,.
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HOKITIKA — We wobbled back to our Kapitea Ridge lodge on the hilltop north of Hokitika, plonked ourselves down on the upper deck and didn’t move.
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CANTERBURY — Canterbury earthquake victims head into 2011 knowing they are much better off than the people of California whose lives are mostly ruined by earthquakes.
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CHRISTCHURCH — One of the last grand properties of Cashmere’s lower slopes could soon but sliced up as a property goes on offer next year.
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QUEENSTOWN — Leading New Zealand artist Lisa Wisse of Christchurch will next week open a special exhibition of dedicated works at the Wai on Steamer wharf in Queenstown.
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KAIKOURA — A leading South Island artist will open New Zealand’s newest art studio next month with her 11.11.1.11.11 exhibition in Kaikoura.
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Leading New Zealand artist Lisa Wisse will next week open an emotive exhibition of special works –highlighting the massive Christchurch earthquake - at Sydney’s Arthouse in Pitt Street.
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WEST COAST — A special edition of 500 prints from Lisa Wisse’s Pike River 29 painting is being made available to the public to help raise funds for the West Coast mining disaster appeal.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Leading NZ artist Lisa Wisse has paid tribute to the 29 Pike River coal miners with a painting to be gifted to the West Coast community.
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The lawyer that represent the families of the Cave Creek tragedy – just 10-12km away in Paparoa national park – has already been approached by West Coasters to prepare for a Pike River commission of inquiry.
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The events this week of the Pike River coal mine tragedy have triggered eerie memories for a New Zealander in London during the July 7 terrorist bombings in 2005.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Former New Zealand women’s squash champion Sarah Cook has put away up her racket and slipped on her boxing gloves as she prepares for the forces fight for charity event in Christchurch on February 12.
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CHRISTCHURCH — From Aranui to London, from the rugby fields to the drama stage, Christchurch schoolboy Teone Kahu is rising fast in the world of performance art.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Polish-born impressionist photographer Eva Polack is one of 10 emerging New Zealand artists who will feature in Auckland’s K Road art exhibition opening on December 2, thanks to an Auckland University course which changed her life three years ago.
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NORTHLAND — Northland builder Iain Cathcart has won the first-ever quirkiest New Zealand letterbox competition.
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Ben Murphy, a 19 year old commis chef from The Berkeley a five star hotel in London, has won the coveted NZ-UK young chef’s culinary challenge at a cook-off today at Westminster’s Kingsway College.
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New Zealand’s quirkiest new letterbox will be unveiled this weekend.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The New Zealand-UK Society, an established group of Kiwis working in London, today gave Christchurch mayor bob Parker $15,000 to the Canterbury earthquake fund.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington has just been named the fourth best city in the world; and might just be the best little capital in the world, according to travel guide Lonely Planet.
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CHRISTCHURCH — When it comes to timing, Untouched World’s Peri Drysdale doesn’t miss a beat.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Leading New Zealand artist Lisa Wisse today had one of her NZ scene paintings gifted to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a special reception in Christchurch today.
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Russian coach Steve Diamond is seeking eligible New Zealand players for his Russian World Cup squad for next year.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin Airport will this month open a special solo art exhibition by leading Otago artist Kerry Fenton-Johns, featuring pohutukawa – the New Zealand Christmas tree.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A Christchurch pet food company that is increasing sales by more than 320 percent a year has been named one of the fastest growing companies in New Zealand.
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