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A person's been arrested after armed police swarmed Innes Road in Christchurch's Mairehau this afternoon - called to reports of a gun

Yelling was heard on the street - and Mairehau Primary School went into lockdown.
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Guillermo del Toro says his long-awaited adaptation of Frankenstein feels deeply "autobiographical"

Reflecting on the parallels between his life and Shelley's story, Guillermo said: "There are large portions of the movie that are autobiographical for me... (Shelley) basically wrote an autobiography ...
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Kim Kardashian has no idea what a jacket potato is

Grime Gran, an 89-year-old interviewer from East London who became an online sensation for her chats with grime artists, quizzed Kim on her views about a British classic - the baked potato, known in ...
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Olympic gold medallist Dame Denise Lewis secretly split from her music mogul husband Steve Finan two years ago

Denise said in her statement - in white words on a black background: "After much thought and consideration, Steve and I decided to separate two years ago as a couple. "This decisi ...
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The Silver Ferns complaints which triggered the standing-down of New Zealand coach Dame Noeline Taurua have been revealed

Taurua was stood down in September, days out from the Taini Jamison Trophy series against South Africa, but has since been reinstated. It followed anonymous player complaints stemming from a training ...
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Kiwis stand-off Dylan Brown is singing the praises of his halves partner ahead of the Pacific Championships final

Brown has been in career-best form heading into the decider against Toa Samoa in Sydney ... but he says retiring halfback Kieran Foran is still the boss. Brown says marking Foran's pending retirement ...
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Concerns from Wellington Phoenix coach Giancarlo Italiano over the A-League's officiating following a season-ending injury to one of his key attackers

Japanese import Hideki Ishige has been sidelined with a serious knee injury after being crunched in a tackle during their last outing against the Central Coast Mariners. Italiano is worried about the ...
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An internet outage during NCEA exams yesterday means some students might turn to derived grades to counteract the disadvantage

Forty Auckland schools and more than a thousand students were disrupted by the hour-long Spark internet black-out. It affected multiple corporate customers and school internet provider, Network for ...
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Sir Paul McCartney was inspired to form Wings after seeing country star Johnny Cash performing with his wife June Carter

The Beatles legend posed the question of starting a band to his late wife Linda McCartney after seeing the couple on stage together as he was searching for a purpose following the Fab Four's break up ...
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Wellington's been hit with a magnitude 5 quake

GeoNet says the quake had a depth of 24 kilometres, striking shortly after 9pm.
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Alec Baldwin's wife Hilaria Baldwin is convinced she was voted off Dancing With The Stars because of a social media "campaign"

The yoga instructor was among the contestants competing on the US TV talent show but she was given the boot last month and she went on to tell fans in an Instagram video she was "bullied off" the ...
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Reese Witherspoon is convinced Jennifer Aniston is "not who people think she is"

The Hollywood actress, 49, has opened up about her long-running friendship with the former Friends star describing her as "very warm and friendly" and she went on to insist her pal isn't at all like ...