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The pride of the Lions

It's why Lions are Lions. To serve. It's why Neil Clarke is a Lion. 'Been a Lion since 1955,” the Mount Maunganui man says proudly. 'I was one of 22 foundation... Read More

A visual flying feast

Next weekend lining up at the pars at McLaren Falls' disc golf course could get a little squishy - with the country's keenest disc golfers flying into town for... Read More

We will remember them

Thousands of Bay of Plenty residents will wake in darkness and head to Anzac parades and services next Tuesday, April 25, to remember those who paid the ultimate... Read More

The day Doug dodged a bomb

Last week The Weekend Sun met Doug Attrill - a 93-year-old with a war story - how his ship got bombed, how a skirmish with a Japanese submarine contributed to... Read More

The story of Doug’s war

It's the bugle call that ends the day. It's also the final salute to the fallen, to those killed in war. Haunting and moving. And on April 25, ANZAC Day, 'The Last... Read More

Festival’s all that jazz and more

The finest jazz musicians from home and abroad will get Tauranga jumping and jiving and grooving this Easter Weekend with the return of National Jazz Festival. Today... Read More

Piddler in the pool

The research was disgusting. The admission even more disgusting. And both caused jitters, little ripples of urea, chloride, sodium and potassium - piddle in other... Read More

Orchestrator behind the spanner

Usually, we associate the glory of car racing to the man behind the wheel. But a lot of what goes on under the bonnet and at the hand of the spanner has a huge... Read More

Challenge accepted!

Think about it. If a businessperson spends 9am-5pm every working day at their desk, that's eight hours a day deskbound. Forty hours a week, or 160 hours a month... Read More

Redemption of a serial one bagger

I am a potato peel pariah - one of Tauranga's despised 'one baggers'. I put all of my domestic rubbish - paper, plastic, tins, bottles, in fact everything that... Read More

Come ride the big red

They come hurtling round the corner in the big red fire truck and suddenly there's hope. 'It's an amazing sense of satisfaction, enormously rewarding,” says... Read More

Spend the surplus on the bridge

Terry 'Hori BOP' Leaming wants to see Prime Minister Bill English spend some of the recently announced government's budget surplus money on making the Maungatapu... Read More