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He has created illegal rubbish and tyre dumps around Canterbury.
Now he is filling a warehouse in central Christchurch with used tyres and is behind on his rent.
A community leader calls him an environmental menace and says he must be stopped.
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Read more: Is Canterbury's illegal tyre dumper an environmental menace?
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A woman who was paralysed after paying for a private operation will be deported at the end of January, despite the risk to her health.
The woman, 48, and her husband, 51, faced deportation after their limited visas – issued to cover the medical procedure for her spine, which was carried out in Auckland – expired in June 2019.
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Read more: Woman paralysed after Auckland operation to be deported to Tonga
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/118709336/woman-paralysed-after-auckland-operation-to-be-deported-to-tonga
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is sending an environmental health team, a primary health care team and a chaplain to help battle bushfires in Australia.
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Read more: NZDF sends health teams and chaplain to help fight Australian bushfires
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118724757/nzdf-sends-health-teams-and-chaplain-to-help-fight-australian-bushfires
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If you bought your home in the past five years, you could be paying higher rates than your neighbours.
Whakatāne district's latest Quotable Value valuations have been released and one local is surprised her flat has been valued significantly higher than her three identical neighbours.
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Read more: 'Why I should pay more?': Whakatāne local's flat rates higher than neighbours
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/407061/why-i-should-pay-more-whakatane-local-s-flat-rates-higher-than-neighbours
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The New York Times says it has verified a video which appears to show a missile hitting a Ukrainian International Airlines plane shortly before it crashed in Iran.
The Boeing 737 crashed on Wednesday, shortly after take-off from Tehran airport, and hours after Iran had fired missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing US troops.
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Read more: Video appears to show missile hitting doomed Ukrainian plane
- Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/video-appears-show-missile-hitting-doomed-ukrainian-plane-moments-before-crashes-in-iran
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel in Australia who are helping to fight the bushfires have arrived in their base-town Nowra, New South Wales (NSW), where vital work awaits them.
They will go wherever they're needed to move people and deliver crucial supplies, but they'll also be crucial to NSW firefighters. From the air, they can see where the fire is spreading and which communities stand in the way.
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Read more: New Zealand Defence Force ready to assist vital work
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/australia-bushfires-new-zealand-defence-force-ready-to-assist-vital-work.html
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A helpful police officer has been praised on social media for pruning a roadside bush in Otago that was reducing visibility rather than ticketing drivers.
A photo of the policeman was posted to Reddit on Tuesday, captioned: "Top cop 2020 contender."
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Read more: 'Top cop' spotted pruning hedges in Otago instead of giving tickets
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/top-cop-spotted-pruning-hedges-in-otago-instead-of-giving-tickets.html
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There is growing speculation a jet that crashed near Tehran, killing 176 people, may have been accidentally - or deliberately - shot down by Iranian air defences.
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Read more: Experts cast doubt technical issue behind flight 752 crash
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