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Neighbours of the four houses being used for The Block TV series in the North Shore suburb of Takapuna say the huge construction effort is affecting their daily lives and impinging on their privacy. Linda Haynes lives next door and says her biggest concern is that the council is letting the production company break “all sorts of rules” to allow the show to go ahead
Wisconsin Tea Party Activists Weigh In on State Employee Protests, Discover Measures to Recall Lacking Democratic Senators Some Wisconsin doctors threw their help behind teachers protesting the Republican governor’s efforts to strip unions of their bargaining powers, declaring they’d compose sick notes for teachers to skip work to demonstrate. The union protesters have been picketing […]
The beginning of the World Cup in South Africa next June kicks-off a festival of football on the pitch, but there are a wealth of issues for the host country to tackle off the field too. Up to half-a-million fans are expected to visit for the tournament and a string of sparkling new stadiums and hotels have sprung up to accommodate them