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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

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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

Stories and images by students of Whitireia Journalism School. NewsWire is published by the school’s programme manager, Jim Tucker.

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