After the big dry comes the big wet. All the forecasts point to heavy downpours – a bucket of cold water in face to all those spoilt by the glorious summer.
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Hello Sailor’s Dave McArtney dies
Hello Sailor founding member David McArtney has died at his Pt Chevalier home. Former Hello Sailor manager David Gapes said everyone he had spoken to was in “disbelief” at the death.
(Email) Chain of Moans – Episode 3
As the show with the highest incidence of mace attacks on television continues, Nelson Mail reporters and bloggers Sarah Dunn and Adam Roberts continue their discussions about the land of Westeros.
Israel bans singer’s Galliano dress
Israel’s national broadcast authority has banned the country’s contestant in the upcoming Eurovision song contest from wearing a dress made by John Galliano, citing an anti-Semitic rant by the celebrity designer two years ago.
New heights for circus talent
For more than eight years since founding Wellington’s Fuse Circus, Tom Beauchamp has been entertaining audiences and developing his craft. Beauchamp, 40, describes himself as a “jack of all trades”, equally at home performing on high from a rope, known as “corde lisse”, or on the ground displaying his clowning skills.
Anna Hutchison puts up a fight
It seems like Anna Hutchison has a boundless supply of energy and enthusiasm. Even after long hours of filming Spartacus: War Of The Damned, the diminutive actress is still delighted to chat about everything from her flame-red wig – “It’s outta control! I come in at 5am and get my wig put on and leave at 7.30pm and be blonde again” – to the three-week bootcamp she had to do with the stunt team before taking the role of Laeta
Nothing wild about DCI Banks
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is no superhero, but that is what actor Stephen Tompkinson likes about him.
What’s the album of your life?
There is always one – the album that sums up a particular moment in time or feeling you don’t want to forget. The one you return to time and again.
Fans in power at MTV Movie Awards
Bradley Cooper and Samuel L. Jackson were double winners at the MTV Movie Awards Cooper won the first Golden Popcorn prize of the night for his performance in Silver Linings Playbook and returned to the stage to accept best kiss honours for his smooch with Jennifer Lawrence in that film.
Jenna Bush Hager welcomes baby
Former US President George W. Bush has become a grandfather