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Police are seeking sightings of a Slovakian tourist who was last seen hitch-hiking near Motueka, near Nelson, and should have been gone only for a couple of hours. Martina Direrova, 23, left the home she was staying at on Motueka Valley Highway, near Ngatamoti, about 2pm on Saturday afternoon.

Gisborne and Hawke's Bay are bracing for flooding as heavy rain pounds the east of the North Island. A severe weather warning has been issued for the two regions last night, with 120-150mm further rainfall for Gisborne from 9am to 3am tomorrow and 140 to 180mm in Hawke's Bay in the 24-hours from 9am today.

Hundreds of Aucklanders have potentially had their bank accounts exposed to fraudsters - with some customers saying they have already lost thousands of dollars. Three ANZ cash machines in Auckland have had their anti-skimming devices beaten and the bank was last night trying to figure out how many customers were involved and how much money had been lost.

Digital news offers customers the choice of what they want to read. But print offers something extra: stories that people didn't know they wanted to read until they had read them Last year it was paywalls, the free-versus-subscription argument that gripped newspapers worried about survival. But see how the moving finger flicks on.

Trans-Tasman sporting relations reached breaking point at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when Australian captain Greg Chappell ordered his brother Trevor to bowl the final delivery of a limited-overs cricket international against New Zealand underarm (along the ground). The visitors needed to hit a six just to tie the match - a tall order for no.

Grace notes A harmonica, saxophone and two guitars (one of them slides). Solo guitar III - Slide February 8, 2012. Solo guitar II - SP February 6, 2012. Solo guitar I - SR Guitar only. R minor I'm running out of letters. B minor Lots of guitars.

""They think he's a righteous dude." "

Magnitude 3.7, Friday, December 23 2011 at 5:33 pm (NZDT), 20 km east of Christchurch.

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The fifth of eight songs performed at our Christmas Sundae Session in December. The band's second album will be out in April this year. Click here to like Dictaphone Blues on Facebook. D.O.P. Bevan Crothers. Cameras: Matt Gerrand, Paul Casserly, Dean Cornish, Hugh Sundae. Edit: Hugh Sundae. Audio Engineer: Simon Gooding.

Auckland's Civic Theatre. 1991. Keanu Reeves is playing an action lead for the first time. He has tracked Patrick Swayze's bank-robbing surfer to Australia's Bells Beach. Swayze is pleading his case: he wants take one last ride on the once-in-a-lifetime waves crashing in the background. "Hell, I'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand!"

Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares rose to a record after quarterly profit more than doubled as holiday demand for the iPhone and iPad cemented its position as the most valuable technology company. Apple's stock gained 6.2 percent to a $446.66 after reporting results yesterday.

The fourth of eight songs performed at our Christmas Sundae Session in December. The band's second album will be out in April this year. Click here to like Dictaphone Blues on Facebook. D.O.P. Bevan Crothers. Cameras: Matt Gerrand, Paul Casserly, Dean Cornish, Hugh Sundae. Edit: Hugh Sundae. Audio Engineer: Simon Gooding.

You should probably watch Luck, a horse racing/gangster saga (Soho 8.30pm) from producer Michael Mann, famed for Miami Vice, not the stupid movie, the actual 111 episode TV series. He made some great movies too, Heat, The Insider. (He directs EP1 as well.)

Brain eating US accused wanted 'blood on his hands' A US man charged with hacking a homeless man to death with an ax and eating his brain was ordered Wednesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Tyree Lincoln Smith, 35, stared blankly as he stood with his hands chained behind his back during his arraignment on a murder charge.

A romantic-comedy about a creepy stalker trying to meet girls by going through their rubbish has taken out the Make My Movie competition. How to Meet Girls From a Distance, created by a Wellington team of budding film-makers, will now be filmed and turned into a movie, to premiere later this year.

In a new move for digital journalism in Australia, Fairfax Media today launched its invitation-only portal for politicians and interest groups to share quotes, documents and photos to be used in news articles. The idea is that Newso will be "a new infrastructure for digital news", Elgar Welch, a spokesperson for Newso, told Crikey.

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