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HAVE YOR SAY: Do you think the council should put more pressure on Christchurch City Holdings Ltd to ensure it meets its financial targets and return higher dividends to ratepayers? Email your views in 200 words or less to barry@starmedia.kiwi Christchurch Deputy Mayor Pauline Cotter says the new chair of the city council's investment company will have to get its underperforming companies back on track.

Allister Christie of Blenheim and inset of Kyle Clarke. Photos: NZME picture supplied by family He stole a blue Mercedes and drove at speed with the owner in hot pursuit.

The early morning rush of vehicles trying to get to the base car park before it fills up. PHOTO: FILE Mt Hutt ski area is introducing subsidised shuttle services from Christchurch and Rolleston and 'car pool priority days' this winter.

Paul Dwyer is back at the hockey turf in his second in the series on Otago Hockey for ODT Sports Chat.

Romance Was Born offered a dramatic show. Photo: Getty Images If there was ever a label to celebrate otherworldly exuberance, it's Romance Was Born.

Photo: RNZ By Jo Muir and Craig McCulloch 

A police guard outside the Christchurch City Mission on Hereford Street following the fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old Jordan Morris in March. Photo: RNZ / Adam Burns A murder charge laid against a man accused of killing another man at Christchurch's City Mission has been dropped on the grounds of self-defence.

Allister Christie of Blenheim and inset of Kyle Clarke. Photos: NZME picture supplied by family He stole a blue Mercedes and drove at speed with the owner in hot pursuit.

Local firey Tanya Stone with her firefighting kit, including breathing apparatus, she'll be wearing when she takes on the Sky Tower Challenge this Saturday. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Carrying half her body weight up the Sky Tower is considered a "luxury" by Tanya Stone.

Casting for Recovery co-ordinator Lisa Brits (left) helps Anne Kirk with practice on the lawn at Wild Earth Lodge. PHOTO: SANTILLAN DE PINTO They came as strangers and left thick as thieves.

File photo: Getty Images Three A-League players have been arrested for alleged betting corruption after police claimed they manipulated the number of yellow cards they received in matches.

The sold-out sign is up at Sky Stadium for Wellington Phoenix. Photo: Getty Images Wellington's Sky Stadium is officially a sell-out for Saturday night's A-League football semi-final between the Phoenix and Melbourne Victory.

Sumner surfer Tony Schafer, pictured at the 2019 national surfing championships, is feeling fortunate after being plucked from the water following a heart attack. Photo: Cory Scott/NZ Surfing Magazine Tony Schafer is counting down the days until he can get back out into the surf after nearly drowning while suffering a heart attack.

A police guard outside the Christchurch City Mission on Hereford Street following the fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old Jordan Morris in March. Photo: RNZ / Adam Burns A murder charge laid against a man accused of killing another man at Christchurch's City Mission has been dropped on the grounds of self-defence.

Shunlian Huang was murdered by her husband Zeshen Zhou in 2005. "I chopped up my wife," Zeshen Zhou told police when they turned up after neighbours heard screams coming from his house.

A teenage girl was one of two strangers allegedly assaulted by a man in his fifties in central Dunedin yesterday.

David Nyika during an open workout at the Boulevard City Music World, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ahead of this weekend's fight. Photo: Getty Images On the eve of a career-defining fight, David Nyika has revealed his family's death-defying dash out of Uganda and the step he's taken more than 50 years later to reconnect with his African roots.

Police are searching for a middle-aged man who flashed a child on her way to school in North Dunedin.

Sumner surfer Tony Schafer, pictured at the 2019 national surfing championships, is feeling fortunate after being plucked from the water following a heart attack. Photo: Cory Scott/NZ Surfing Magazine Tony Schafer is counting down the days until he can get back out into the surf after nearly drowning while suffering a heart attack.