Newswire Digest: Latest Stories August 21, 2009
Newswire Digest: Latest Stories August 21, 2009
NEW THIS WEEK ON NEWSWIRE
What’s new on NewsWire.co.nz, the website of Whitireia Community Polytechnic’s Journalism School
Tomorrow: How Wellingtonians are handling the recession. Analysis of a NewsWire telephone poll.
In three dimensions: Wellington home of
the next big thing in movies
The capital’s role in
the 3D revolution. KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON talks to a leading
exponent of cinematic art from Park Road Post
Production.
http://tiny.cc/ofFH0
Website names
political figure despite court order
NewsWire’s
JANICE IKIUA locates the name-and-shame site that called a
high-profile man to account for his family life. Although
the site’s moderator bowed to legal pressure and obscured
the name, the incident highlights uncertainty on breach of
suppression orders in the internet age.
http://bit.ly/1eJ1zO
Child vandals
return to plague urupa
Police failed to snaffle a
couple of kids who damaged graves in the Parata family urupa
at Waikanae. By BEN STRANG.
http://tiny.cc/s9FkG
Makara man
double faults on Targa rally complaint
October’s
Targa rally won’t have to halt for a Makara resident’s
tennis match, writes DANIEL SIMMONS RITCHIE. Temporary
closure of Makara roads for the event was approved by
Wellington City Council, after it rejected the resident’s
objection that it clashed with his tennis.
http://bit.ly/169SDD
Doggy moves
provoke owner outrage
Yet more objectors upset by
Wellington City Council, this time for its dog policy. KARA
LOK reports things are in for another shake-up and some dog
owners feel besieged.
http://bit.ly/2ygmeP
Palestine
anger reignited by Israel embassy move
Palestinian
sympathisers marched through Wellington condemning the
Israeli government, following the announcement of plans to
reopen an Israeli Embassy in New Zealand. BY LIZ PROCTOR and
CARL SUURMOND.
http://bit.ly/122fQW
Skaters amped
at ramps’ tough new surface …WITH VIDEO
At Island
Bay and Wilton parks, Wellington City Council has replaced
the surfacing on skate ramps with the baked resin-and-wood
product, Skatelite. The $80,000 result is hard, smooth and
just how the skaters like it, CARL SUURMOND reports.
http://bit.ly/1RUZMQ
‘Hour
of the Wolf’ from insomniac rockers
They’re
called Riverblind and they’re into rock, with jazz and
classical influences and middle-of-the-night lyrics. JESS
JONES writes about a Wellington band with a new album and an
Aussie domination plan.
http://bit.ly/2XtcNW
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