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Met arrests six teenage gang members in London phone snatching crackdown

Police said robbery in Nine Elms has dropped by 72 per cent, while Battersea Park and Shaftesbury and Queenstown wards have seen reductions of 46 and 45 per cent respectively

Evening Standard

An 11-Day Middle-earth Fantasy in New Zealand

New Zealand's geography feels magically pulled straight from J.R.R. Tolkien's stories.

Reason

Flight makes emergency landing in New Zealand after engine fire due to ‘possible bird strike’

Queenstown local says ‘one engine was throwing flames and sputtering out’

The Independent UK

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Bird strike: what happens when a plane collides with a bird?

Late last night, Virgin Australia flight VA 148 set out from Queenstown in New Zealand bound for Melbourne. Not long after takeoff, the right engine of the Boeing 737-800 jet started emitting loud bangs, followed by flames.

The Conversation

Likely ‘a bird strike’: Virgin Australia flight makes emergency landing in New Zealand after engine fire

Boeing 737-800 plane travelling from Queenstown to Melbourne diverts due to bird probably being ‘ingested into an engine’

The Guardian - AU

Virgin Australia Flight Bound For Melb Forced To Land After Engine Catches Fire: ‘A Tad Shaken’

A Virgin Australia flight heading to Melbourne from Queenstown New Zealand was forced to land after a fire broke out in its engine.

Pedestrian.tv

New Zealand Detective Series 'A Remarkable Place To Die' Launched

A Remarkable Place to Die is a captivating detective series set in Queenstown, New Zealand, featuring Anais Mallory solving complex homicides amidst person...

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Ocean Alley musician apologises for shoplifting after New Zealand shop shares CCTV footage

Lachlan Galbraith says he feels ‘deep regret’ for stealing a drink bottle lid, but the Hunting and Fishing store in Queenstown says embarrassment ‘is punishment enough’

The Guardian - AU

Titanic’s first class dinner menu expected to fetch £60,000 at auction

The dinner was served on the evening of April 11 1912 after the liner left Queenstown in Ireland for New York during its fateful maiden voyage.

The Independent UK

NZ's Queenstown Airport reopens after bomb threat

New Zealand Defence personnel have attended Queenstown airport after a suspicious item was identified, causing an evacuation and flight cancellations.

AAP

Ravishing Form, Queenstown, Artemis Ignacia, Monteverdi and Stellar Gold excel

Ravishing Form, Queenstown, Artemis Ignacia, Monteverdi and Stellar Gold excelled when the horses were exercised in Bengaluru on Thursday morning (Oct. 5)

The Hindu

Making our drinking water safe

The cryptosporidium outbreak in Queenstown highlights the challenges of providing a clean water supply. Why is it so difficult to make our drinking water safe?

Newsroom.co.nz

Council decided to leave slash in forest above Queenstown cemetery

Questions asked of Queenstown’s council about tree harvesting, reports David Williams

Newsroom.co.nz

Flooding, parasite woes befall NZ's key tourist town

Queenstown residents are picking up the pieces after record rainfall overnight caused flooding and landslips in New Zealand's tourist town.

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Queenstown cemetery buried

State of emergency will be in place for at least seven days after wettest 24 hours in nearly a quarter of a century, writes Bonnie Sumner

Newsroom.co.nz

Lack of water treatment highlights urgency of Three Waters reforms – mayor

Queenstown council failed to install the protozoa barrier that would have averted its crypto outbreak because of 'tens of millions' cost, writes Jonathan Milne.

AAP

Eight taken ill in New Zealand parasite outbreak

Eight people in Queenstown, New Zealand have reported illness and tested positive for cryptosporidium.

Newsroom.co.nz

When four politicians walk into a room

There were, says Grant Robertson, a lot of professors of hindsight economics in the room at the ASB Queenstown finance debate. Newsroom's Jonathan Milne was also there.

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Newsroom.co.nz

Finance debate draws taxing admission from Nicola Willis

National finance spokesperson's extraordinary concession raises more questions about the impact of National’s tax policies on house prices, writes Jo Moir.

Newsroom.co.nz

Workers living in cars the new normal in Queenstown

There’s a housing crisis in Queenstown, yet 27 percent of the stock is sitting empty most of the year. Political editor Jo Moir visited the tourism hotspot to investigate what’s going on.

Pedestrian.tv

All The Best Vineyards To Hit On NZ’s South Island If You’re Entering Your Wine Mum Era

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Newsroom.co.nz

An incident in Queenstown

A flight instructor tells the author Fletcher McKenzie of submarining his plane in the waters of Lake Wakatipu

The Guardian - AU

Couch surfing and sleeping in vans: New Zealand’s housing crisis grips Queenstown

Tourist hub plagued by lack of homes, surging rents and traveller influx provides ‘starkest’ picture of country’s property crunch

Newsroom.co.nz

Queenstown’s housing ladder is more like a beanstalk

Without gigantic help, aspiring homeowners with few beans will be left dangling. David Williams reports.

The Hindu

It’s Queenstown vs. Moon’s Blessing in the Racing Patrons Trophy

Queenstown and Moon’s Blessing may fight out the finish of the Racing Patrons Trophy (1,200m), the feature event of the opening day races to be held in Bengaluru on Saturday (May 20).

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