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Beep, beep, beep, BEEEEP!

There's a battered old silver service teaspoon circa 1840-1860. There's an 1836 silver shilling and a military uniform button from the 68th Durham Light Infantry... Read More

Can tabs put to good use

What purpose could hundreds of tiny can tabs possibly serve once they've done their job and opened your soda or tin of tuna? Well, Pinterest is rife with nifty... Read More

To serve coffee – and goodness

When The Daily Café opens next month people will walk in to the usual hums, clicks and spurts reverberating from a coffee machine. But this will be no usual... Read More

Sixty-five days of niceness

Don't be surprised. Because somewhere, sometime soon, when you least expect it, someone will step up and say: 'Hi, we are the cystic sisters and this one's on us”. It... Read More

Industry backs the publican

It seemed like a petty squabble, a storm in a bucket of beer-battered chips. For one man it blew into something 'that weighed heavily on his heart”. For another,... Read More

At 25,000ft with Bailey

He's a kind of unofficial envoy for Kiwi Regional Airlines, an ambassador at large. 'It's the little Kiwi airline that you can relate to, that you can trust,”... Read More

International help in Tauranga

International students from Tauranga Girls' College dispersed throughout the community on Tuesday to lend a helping hand. The school held its annual work day, when... Read More

Down the rabbit hole

The White Rabbit was late for a very important date, but organisers of the Mad Hatters' What's Under Your Hat event are making sure Tauranga women aren't late for... Read More

Westie lectures students

She was the iconic no-nonsense matriarchal westie Cheryl West in TV3's 'Outrageous Fortune'. Both a saint and a sinner, said the blurbs. And with the same mastery... Read More

Be smokefree for Davis

Twelve-year-old Davis Herniman from Mount Maunganui presents as a normal and very healthy looking boy. But what most people wouldn't know from meeting him is he... Read More

ACG mark World Environment Day

ACG Tauranga pupils will mark World Environment Day this week, as the school continues its ongoing commitment to actively reducing its environmental footprint. World... Read More

‘Haves’ feeding ‘have nots'

It's filling empty bellies, teaching empathy - and it's growing good young men. 'It also says something about kids these days,” says Nicki Goodwin, co-ordinator... Read More