It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Is your tree up yet?
Yealand's Classic Fighters is on at Omaka Aerodrome this weekend! There are about 100 planes planned, with more than 60 aircraft putting on an aerial show over the weekend, including the Steadfast and the Avro Anson Mk I featured in the video, hope to see you there!
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Graeme Dingle Foundation regional manager Kelvin Watt told a crowd of supporters Nicki’s strong, business-like approach, balanced with a huge heart, empowered staff to get things done. Read more on the Marlborough App.
Friday nights are for relaxing, a quiet beer - and training police dogs, apparently.
A special exercise to get a young police dog ready for its exams made an incredibly fun change to the regular Friday night ritual.
Nearing bedtime, when your five-year-old tells you there’s a policeman at your back door, you can forgive a parent for not believing them.
Cue a rapping at the door. The back door, where no one ever knocks.
“It’s probably just the boy,” I told my partner. With the stupid hot temperatures, we had every single curtain in the house pulled and the air conditioning on full blast.
She checked, because, it turns out, it’s wise to listen to your children sometimes, and found Senior Constable Aaron Senior.
He very politely asked to use our property in a training exercise for 15-month-old Police dog in training, Buzz.
“He’ll come over that fence in about ten minutes,” he told us, pointing at the arched fence, very in need of paint and with nails sticking out of it, in our back garden.
“A gift,” I thought to myself, as I prepared my camera and notebook. I love it when interesting things happen.
While my partner worried about her plants, and we both dreamed of a great, hulking brute of dog bursting through the fence in a slather of saliva and justice – and the resulting insurance claim - the svelte 30kg-ish buzz was in fact lovingly hoisted over the ACC-claim worthy fence and quickly found the scent to the lane beyond.
Buzz zoomed around our cul-de-sac, presumably distracted by the four-and-a-half million cats that seem to live on the lane, all of which poo in our garden, before latching on to the scent again.
Aaron told me afterwards that training in residential areas is especially difficult, but they need to have their dogs ready to go wherever offenders are.
The training takes place not just near homes, but rurally and through industrial areas too.
Buzz is working towards being operational, with his certification course, at Tre
‘Shovel ready’ Picton terminal finally set for movement
New Interislander ferries are expected to make it to the shores of Aotearoa by 2025 and 2026. Terminal upgrades in both Picton and Wellington are needed to accommodate them, in what is estimated to be a $1.45 billion infrastructure project.
Police spoke to media in Blenheim today following this morning's horror crash on State Highway 1 that claimed the lives of seven people, including an infant believed to be under the age of one.
Preparing for an Alpine Fault rupture | Faultlines | Top South Media
An Alpine Fault magnitude 8 rupture will affect isolated communities the worst. How are they preparing for being cut off from the country for up to six months?
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Hail near Kaituna
Bit of a temperature change out there! After the beautiful morning, who expected to see hail this afternoon? This video is from out near Kaituna. How's the weather where you are?
