Headline News
The Marlborough Express
06 Feb 2012
Logan Pl a wonderful streetLogan Pl resident Andrea Smyth considers her neighbourhood to be the best in Marlborough.
06 Feb 2012
Diamonds in shop window a winnerThe combination of No1 Family Estate sparkling wine and diamonds displayed in McCormicks Jewellers shop window has proved a winner. It received first prize in the Wine and Food Festival window display competition.
06 Feb 2012
Funds on tap for outdoors accessMarlborough groups working to provide greater access to the outdoors should consider applying for funding from the New Zealand Walking Access Commission for projects, commission regional field officer Chris Tonkin says.
06 Feb 2012
Farmers worried by classification processWard landowners are annoyed that the Marlborough District Council gave them no opportunity to help identify outstanding landscapes in the area where many of their families have farmed for more than 100 years.
06 Feb 2012
Fighters & friendsTwo years in the service, hundreds of call outs, but still a fire-truck load more to learn.
sport headlines
06 Feb 2012
Nelson put end to Cup hopeThe Marlborough senior cricket team will not challenge for the Hawke Cup for a third consecutive time after Nelson secured the zone three challenge with a five wicket outright victory over Canterbury Country at Mandeville yesterday.
06 Feb 2012
Win puts Valley in title deciderCriterion Hotel Wairau Valley will meet defending champions Grove Tavern Wairau in the Marlborough senior cricket Twenty20 competition final after Valley scored a 49-run win over Guthrie Bowron Renwick on Friday night.
03 Feb 2012
Play hard. Dream bigHarrison Boyce is typical of most 14-year-old boys when it comes to trumpeting his sporting success. He doesn't really like to, is very matter of fact about it and just obviously loves playing cricket. There's hardly a moment he hasn't got a bat or ball in his hands or he's not talking or playing cricket.
The Nelson Mail
06 Feb 2012
Fast help averts boating disasterThe quick actions of an off-duty police officer and Okiwi Bay residents and holidaymakers most probably saved the lives of three people, including a small child, from a boating accident at Okiwi Bay late yesterday.
06 Feb 2012
Victim identifiedPolice have named the man who died when he was hit by a car on State Highway 6 near Atawhai on Saturday morning. He was 31-year-old Nelson man Adam Lewis Wastney.
06 Feb 2012
Series of suspicious fires lit near TapaweraA number of fires that were deliberately lit in the Tapawera area on Saturday are the latest in a number of suspicious blazes that have occurred in rural areas in the past several weeks.
06 Feb 2012
Public offered chance to tour CawthronThe Cawthron Institute is inviting the Nelson public into a world of suspended animation, cryo-preservation, algal towers and the unseen life of shellfish as it opens the doors to the Glenhaven Aquaculture Centre next Sunday.
06 Feb 2012
Editorial: Sensible outcome to cycling death caseIn the war of the roads – cyclists versus cars – it often seems that the first rule of engagement is, might is right. The bigger the vehicle, the greater the forces it is capable of generating; so to that extent it makes sense for other road users to apply the precautionary principle. Regardless of legal "rights", it also makes sense for the more vulnerable to be the most vigilant and less assertive, a position seated primarily in self-preservation.
sport headlines
03 Feb 2012
Listen to your inner musicIf the summer's sports events were a symphony, many Nelson athletes would be past the allegro and the adagio and be building into the scherzo. I'm feeling a little as if I'm into the rondo at the moment.
02 Feb 2012
Nelson hard man can't wait for catfightThe Perth Wildcats are the sort of outfit who like to test your manhood. In other words, Nelson basketballer Mika Vukona's kind of team.
02 Feb 2012
Edwards rejoins fellow Nelsonians in NZ squadJo Edwards has made her anticipated return to the Black Jacks, after the 17-player squad was confirmed yesterday by Bowls New Zealand.
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