Newswire Digest: Latest Stories September 18, 2009

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What’s new on NewsWire.co.nz, the website of Whitireia Community Polytechnic’s Journalism School

The best of a swag of new stories and images this week by students of Whitireia Journalism School’s National Diploma in Journalism (Multi-media):

Why were we waiting?

A Waterloo man, suffering from a swollen neck and finding breathing uncomfortable, is dismayed at the lack of official transport from Hutt to Wellington Hospital. Kylie Klein-Nixon asks why the family had to provide their own car.

Fat Freddys drop their vinyl into city store

Fat Freddy’s Drop band members work their Vivids like instruments, signing their new release vinyl record at Slow Boat Records in Cuba St.

Unsolved murder inspires winning novel

Titahi Bay author Alison Wong has won the Janet Frame Award for fiction for As the Earth Turns Silver, a novel inspired by the unsolved murder of her Chinese great grandfather in Wellington in 1914. By Sarah Hardie

Rewarded for nurturing Samoan language

Porirua-based Le’autuli’ilagi Sauvao is invested with the New Zealand Order of Merit for her devotion to language, culture and education. Catherine McGregor reports.

New life for old cycles at activist workshop

Better known for being searched in the so-called “terror raids” of 2007, an Abel Tasman St house also offers skills for saving wrecked bicycles. Vaughan Elder reports.

‘We’re out’, say tertiary teachers

Chris Armstrong on the dispute between polytechnics and technical institutes, and their teaching staff’s union.

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