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In my early days at Metro magazine, late 80s, we had a feature, “Why I live where I live”. People were interviewed about why on earth they...

Fancy $25,000? That’s how much the 2017 Copyright Licensing Writer’s Award is worth. Applications close at 4 p.m. next Friday, 9 June, so g...

From the edition of Saturday 27 May. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times . L...

The Wintec Press Club lunch is staged by the Wintec School of Media Arts three times a year for the benefit of the journalism students. The...

Reprinted in The Week , 13 May: Up in smoke Britain’s coal-free days are celebrated – but ironically are down to Drax, Europe’s largest...

Very sad news from Australia – New Zealand-born novelist and literary activist Rosie Scott has died. She was a fine writer, great fun ...

The Economist reports that sand is in demand: I ndia ’ s “sand mafia” is doing a roaring trade. The Times of India estimates that the ...

Aka The Cat in the Hat: the sequel . In the previous instalment, Waikato Times Letters of the week #76 , four of the paper’s readers upbrai...

Get out your tissues: Robin McKie at the Guardian reports on Monty Python’s Terry Jones and his dementia . Quote unquote: It is also o...

Yes, letters of the week. All four letters to the editor of the Waikato Times yesterday, 20 April,  were in response to this column in t...