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The South Invercargill community hub is approaching $2m but needs to double that

Robyn Edie / Stuff Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu representative trustee and Grace St project manager, Terry Nicholas, says the South Invercargill community is accessible to everyone from the disadvantaged to the rainbow community. A new community center in south Invercargill will open up learning opportunities and eventually employment opportunities for disadvantaged people, says a […]

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British singer Elton John performs on the Pyramid Stage during the 5th day of the Glastonbury festival in the village of Pilton in Somerset, southwest England, on June 25, 2023. Elton John closes the Glastonbury Festival in Britain on Sunday in what it is said to be his last work in the UK. The 76-year-old singer is ending an exciting career with a farewell world tour, having played his last concerts in the United States in May before a final gig in Stockholm on July 8. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP )

The sun goes out on Elton John and the rhapsodic Glastonbury

Elton John played 21 songs. Image: AFP/Oli Scarff Author Mark SavageBBC news The sun set on one of the biggest acts in British music history, as Elton John played the final UK show of his farewell tour at Glastonbury. The 76-year-old legend has engaged his fans in a masterful way through his singing and acting

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It’s July: The best movies leaving Netflix this week

While there’s a daily drop of new content on Netflix, everything from crazy shows to classic rom-coms, there’s also a steady stream of content leaving the global service. So while you might think that a movie or TV show will be available to watch there forever, the truth is that’s not the case, some are

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The best looks and moments from Glastonbury 2023

Dave Bennett/Getty Images The surprisingly dry festival saw fashionistas swapping their wellies for cowboy boots and boots. When it comes to fashion Coachella has flower crowns and inspirational #OOTDs and Glastonbury has mud and gumboots. Except, unseasonably, it wasn’t this year. The extremely dry conditions on the ground caused the attendees to change their decision

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Streaming news: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week

What will you watch this week? We round up everything coming to entertainment this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, Neon and TVNZ+. The biggies The Witcher: Season 3: Volume 1 (on Netflix from June 29) The second season of The Witcher was released at the end of 2021. The memories of what

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Crying in the What Now crowd

This article comes from thespinoff.co.nz team Alex Casey has a wonderful Sunday morning in the studio of Aotearoa’s longest-running children’s show. You’d think we were in the middle of a spectacular home birth. “Does anyone have more towels,” someone shouts from the room, chasing a bright pink and orange towel. “More towels?!” someone pleaded with

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Life, death, and interesting books in Shortland St

ReadingRoom On the writing skills to propel NZ’s top soap opera to the next level TK had agreed to the last shift. TK was happy. TK had a new job and a future to leave Ferndale with. Everything encouraged renewal, new stability, peace, closure. And that, in the soap opera sense, is always a promise

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Parenting: So your child has introduced you to sex…

Serena Solomon is a writer, mother of two young children and enjoys solo vacations. There is nothing that destroys the friendship of two parents like a child showing up at the door. It’s a scene that will leave you searching for the cover of the paper, spouting absurd explanations involving bees and wearing a red

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‘It’s always hard not to put your best work’: Adi Nevgi kicked out of the MasterChef kitchen

When the chefs entered the kitchen they were met with several petri dishes containing pearls of different colors. Like something from Willy Wonka’s factory, the judges explained that the odorless balls were full of flavor, making our chefs try something unique but very difficult. “It looked amazing, first of all,” Adi told 10 Play, “you

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Rod Stewart was furious and ‘walked off stage’ after the gig was cut short

Rod Stewart’s fans were furious after the singer “walked off stage” during a performance. The 78-year-old was playing in Plymouth last night ahead of the UK summer shows. But the musical legend at Home Park seemed cut short when the stage went dark at 10.30pm. They say it’s curfew, but shocked fans are quick to

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