27 May 2004

Upper Hutt does well in Wellington Sports Awards

Upper Hutt sports people were well represented at night's Wellington Sports Awards and collected two of the winning categories. The Upper Hutt Sports Awards held 6 weeks ago are modelled on Wellington with all winners nominated to those awards. Grant McCarrol, softball's Black Sox Manager won Administrator of the year and being first up started what was a big night for softball. McCarrol is a physical trainer at Trentham Army Camp.

18 year old Todd Hammington is excelling at Karate .He was Upper Hutt Sportsperson of the year and won Emerging Sportsperson for the Wellington Region against top competition. The Hutt Valley was well represented with new All Black Captain's Tana Umunga mother from Wainuiomata collecting the Fairplay Award on his behalf.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>