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'Lift game' on difficult schoolkids
  Violent and threatening behaviour in Gisborne schools has prompted a call to set up an education centre for dangerous and troublesome students . . . ...

'Lack of support' for the difficult pupils in school
  Difficult pupils are being excluded from class because mainstream schools lack support to cater for them, the chief ombudsman says. Beverly Waken ...

Bringing great music to younger ears
  When the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra blew into town this week, it was not just for the Wednesday evening concert at the War Memorial Theatre. On ...

Musicians get to play together
  After a week of playing solo, the musicians who have competed in the Gisborne Music Competition finally get to play together in an orchestra thrown ...

BW campsites expand to nearby marae
  BW Camping Festival has teamed up with Te Kuri a Tuatai Marae to open a fifth campsite, making it the biggest accommodation of its kind in the ...

Soho late licence over R&V period
  A PARTNERSHIP between Soho Bar and Rhythm & Vines has swayed Gisborne District Council's hearings committee to approve an extended liquor licence ...

Tolley calls for bus-run inquiry
  The Auditor-General has been asked to launch an inquiry into the "hashed" Ministry of Education decision to contract most of the country's school ...

'Scorcher' was hottest so far, cooler weekend
  The heat may be off the district slightly over the weekend, following another scorcher yesterday. It was the hottest day so far this summer, with ...

Christian school growing strongly
  SONRISE Christian School continues to grow, with contractors building a multi-purpose block to house a library, staffroom, preparation room, ...

Contador' best inthe world':Armstrong
  Tenerife, Spain - Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was full of praise for his new Astana team-mate Alberto Contador today. The duo ...

Douglas kicking himself over loss
  A punching bag was the first thing Hamish Douglas wanted after an elusive first win slipped from his grasp at the national interprovincial ...

Blair nails his first ace
  RETIRING Awapuni School caretaker Joe Blair probably doesn't need the extra time to improve his game. The 65-year-old heads into his retirement ...

Bristow stands pressure to take last wicket
  Andrew Bristow bowled only two balls for Poverty Bay in the Northern Districts under-17 tournament in Gisborne yesterday. But his second, in the ...

Keen competition for singles
  A galaxy of Gisborne East Coast men and women players are chasing prestigious centre Open Singles titles at Gisborne and Riverside this weekend. ...

Trio answer depleted Bay's SOS
  LOCAL medium pace bowler Matt Cook and two additional loan players from Bay of Plenty have answered an SOS call from Pioneer Seeds Poverty Bay ...

Wrong place for industrial zones
  One of the features of the East Coast is the coast. While the rest of the world is building expensive town-houses around their coastal golf courses, ...

Rhonda book-binding in UK
  Following your article of Nov 17, 2008, regarding the bookbinders based at Torere, I am a book and paper conservator, based in Reading, UK. I grew ...

Pros and cons of Town Square project
  That was a good, strong wake-up call in The Gisborne Herald's editorial on Saturday, November 29, regarding the need for a town square . . . an ...

Taking the reins of govt really is shaping up like poisoned chalice
  “Ha, ha, Gotcha!” Anyone with a cynical view about politics will have no trouble in imagining some Labour politicians lurking around ...