Articles by Lynley Ward
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National
North Island storm: Fresh flood threat, 130km/h gales for Akl north, 6m-high seas
Friday, 27 October 2023, 2:12PMFirst warnings have been issued of potentially destructive winds and heavy rain and possible flooding set to slam into the...
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Education
Ex-King's College teacher jailed for historical child sex abuse; call for NZ victims
Friday, 29 September 2023, 5:24PMWarning: This article discusses sexual assault. A former King’s College teacher and housemaster is to spend four years in...
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Auckland
Dog-loving Auckland couple who died in crash named, family, friends mourn devoted pair
Monday, 12 June 2023, 3:09PMAn elderly couple who died three days apart after a crash were devoted dog lovers who were often seen walking their pet beagle...
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Audio
Screentime: Citadel, Love and Death and Miriam Margoyles: Almost Australian
Saturday, 29 April 2023, 11:11AMCitadel: A sci-fi action thriller starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra as spy agents whose memory is wiped after global...
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Crime
'Shut up or be killed': Manhunt under way after schoolgirl abducted, brutally assaulted
Saturday, 22 April 2023, 9:27AMWARNING: Distressing content A 15-year-old schoolgirl was bundled out of her home at knifepoint by an intruder who chased...
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Crime
'I am nothing and nobody': Ex-broadcaster Liz Gunn pleads not guilty over airport scuffle
Thursday, 23 March 2023, 8:21AMFormer TV presenter Liz Gunn has pleaded not guilty after she and a cameraman allegedly got into a scuffle with Auckland...
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National
'Totally devastated': Wife of man who drowned at Piha had lost parents, brother to Covid
Monday, 23 January 2023, 7:26AMThe grief-stricken wife of one of the men who died at Piha Beach on Saturday has been left utterly lost and bereft after...
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National
Raging seas threaten to take historic Coromandel boating club
Wednesday, 11 January 2023, 9:26AMThe Coromandel boating club behind New Zealand’s first bid to contest the America’s Cup is now facing a fight to save its...
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National
Live: Coromandel cut off; SH25 blocked by fallen trees, floods, slips
Thursday, 5 January 2023, 10:03AMLATEST UPDATES SH 25 in Coromandel closed by slips and flooding More than 200 mm of rain to fall in Coromandel, Bay of Plenty Upper...
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Audio
Screentime: Tusla King, 1899 and Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
Saturday, 19 November 2022, 10:43AMTulsa King: Sylvester Stallone stars as New York mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi, who is released from prison after...
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National
Death rate jumps 10 percent, Covid-19 sees NZ mortality rate climb to new high
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 10:50PMNew Zealand has just recorded its highest death count in a 12-month period - driven by the Covid pandemic and our ageing...
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Crime
'I don't know how I'll get around': Car theft victim's dismay after reckless joyride
Thursday, 3 November 2022, 2:17PMA car belonging to a pregnant woman stolen in an audacious day-time theft from Middlemore Hospital has been recovered but...
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Crime
Woman to appear in court over nine-year-old cold case, faces arson and murder charges
Thursday, 3 November 2022, 11:51AMA 62-year-old woman has been charged with murder and arson in relation to a Gisborne war veteran who died in a house fire...
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Audio
Tara Ward: White Lotus, The Devil's Hour, and The Playlist
Saturday, 29 October 2022, 11:40AMWhite Lotus: a new series of the American satire set in a tropical resort, which follows the exploits of various guests and...
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Audio
Tara Ward: Somewhere Boy, Gangs of London and From Scratch
Saturday, 22 October 2022, 11:09AMSomewhere Boy: An emotional British drama about Danny, who has lived his life locked at home with his father after the death...
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Audio
Screentime: This England, The Watcher, The Empress
Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 2:43PMThis England: Kenneth Branagh stars as Boris Johnson in this drama based on the British prime minister's tumultuous first...
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Audio
Screentime: The Man Who Fell to Earth, In Plain Sight, Hitmen
Thursday, 21 July 2022, 2:57PMThe Man Who Fell to Earth: a science fiction series about an alien who crashes deep into the oilfields of New Mexico with...
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National
Died alone in her car: Residents repeatedly sought help for homeless elderly woman in swanky suburb
Friday, 8 July 2022, 7:07AMA review is under way after Auckland Council wrongly classed an elderly woman living in a car on a Remuera street as a freedom...
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National
Irish rugby hero's life-saving kiss: All Blacks fan brought back from dead
Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 10:05AMA touring Irish fan has given the kiss of life to a Waikato rugby stalwart whose heart stopped beating as he parked his ute...
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Audio
Tara Ward: This is going to hurt, For All Mankind, Everything I know about love
Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 2:33PMThis is going to hurt: A British medical comedy-drama based on the best-selling memoir by Dr Adam Kay, about the lives of...
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Audio
Screentime: Time Traveller's Wife, Conversations with Friends, Lincoln Lawyer
Friday, 20 May 2022, 12:04PMThe Time Traveller’s Wife: A science fiction drama based on the popular book by Audrey Niffeneger, about a love story between...
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Crime
Otago University bomb threat: Woman sent hoax to hide failure from parents
Thursday, 12 May 2022, 7:55PMA woman sent fake bomb threats to Otago University warning of carnage greater than the 2019 Christchurch mosques attacks...
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Audio
Screentime: The Staircase, We Own This City, Lego Masters NZ
Friday, 6 May 2022, 4:01PMThe Staircase: Colin Firth and Toni Colette star in this true crime drama inspired by the true story of Michael Peterson,...
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Audio
Screentime: 1883, Gentleman Jack, Ten Percent
Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 12:37PM1883: This prequel to the popular drama Yellowstone (available on Neon) follows the Dutton family as they flee poverty in...