Heroes and Heroines of the Nation, War of Independence patriots, are featured subjects on the latest bank note series in Argentina, with the 10,000-peso note becoming the first to circulate.
Every year thousands of students audition for a Wisconsin tradition, dating more than 50 years old now, to be a part of a "Kids From Wisconsin" production.
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Artist impressions of how the Countdown Supermarket at the new Showgrounds Hill development will look.
The go-ahead for a retail development for Showgrounds Hill, the SC RSA building s demolition, and the return of a beloved cat missing for two years, all made the headlines in December, as Doug Sail discovered in the final instalment of our series looking back at the year that was. The controversial Timaru retail development proposal at Showgrounds Hill was granted resource consent on December 11, less than a day after a ruling that the application was not headed for public consultation. Permission for Auckland-based developer Redwood Group (RG) to turn the 12-hectare site site into a 34,000 square-metre retail centre was approved by independent commissioner Allan Cubitt.