Helicopter rescue: Woman swept away while swimming in Kawarau River near Queenstown airlifted from rocks
3 Feb, 2021 04:02 AM
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The rescued woman and her friends speak to paramedics. Photo / Guy Williams
Otago Daily Times
By: Daisy Hudson
A helicopter has winched a woman from rocks at the Kawarau River, near Queenstown, after she was swept several hundred metres downstream while swimming with friends.
A police spokeswoman said they were notified after a report of a woman in difficulty in the water, near Gibbston, about 1.30pm.
The woman is one of a group of three friends from Queenstown who came to the riverside spot at the end of Rafters Rd, a Department of Conservation reserve, for a picnic and a swim about 11am.
Soundtrack to My Life: Flash fiction writer Jack Remiel Cottrell
29 Jan, 2021 03:00 AM
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Award-winning flash fiction writer Jack Remiel Cottrell. Photo / Supplied
By: Joanna Wane
Ramin Djawadi
I have two conditions when I write: (1) complete silence and (2) listening to music plugged into my ears loud enough that I don t hear anything else. I have ADHD, so you learn all these tricks to manage your short attention span. That s definitely one of the reasons I do flash fiction [stories of less than 300 words]. My very favourite place to write is at the laundromat. There s nothing else to do there, no distractions and it costs about the same as buying two coffees in a cafe. I ve never watched Westworld but Ramin Djawadi [Game of Thrones] does fantastic soundtracks. I can plug this in and at the end have clean underpants and a few hundred words. It s very satisfying.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Infections hit 100 million globally, coronavirus crisis rages on
27 Jan, 2021 02:42 AM
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A picture tweeted in reference to UK s 100,000 death toll. 100,000 people are jammed into this football stadium. Photo / Twitter
A picture tweeted in reference to UK s 100,000 death toll. 100,000 people are jammed into this football stadium. Photo / Twitter
news.com.au
The world has hit another grim milestone in its fight against coronavirus, as the hundred millionth person was diagnosed with the disease.
The 100 million cases come as Britain became the first European country to pass 100,000 Covid-19 deaths.
Another 1631 deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the total to 100,162 from nearly 3.7 million positive cases and overshadowing progress in an unprecedented vaccination campaign.
• Proprietress seeks Enugu govt s intervention
No fewer than three hundred students of Providence High School, Independence layout, Enugu were on Thursday afternoon locked up inside their school premises as officials of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) took possession of the institution on order of the court.
The students currently writing their school certificate examinations had retired to their hostels after school hours when officials of the Corporation arrived the premises with heavily armed policemen to enforce the court order said to have been obtained since 2016.
It was gathered that the school facility situate at No. 1b Nawfia close, Independence layout, Enugu, was used to obtain some loans by the original owner.