Lower Hutt boy disqualified from sprint competition for running in bare feet

Can't view this email, [click here] 30 November 2016 Hi {NAME}, Catch up on today's latest news in your daily briefing. Top Headlines [Large Article Image] [Large Article Title] A mother has been left fuming after her son was disqualified from a Lower Hutt athletics tournament for running in bare feet. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Large Article Image] [Large Article Title] A charter plane carrying Brazilian football team Chapecoense to the biggest game in its history crashed in the Colombian mountains after an electrical fault, killing 75 people on board, officials say. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] It started almost half a century ago, most likely with a ball over the fence that was sliced in half and thrown back. 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[Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] National news [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] A lamb that fell into a deep crack in the ground after the Kaikoura Earthquake was stuck for five days. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] A group of mischievous kea have been caught on camera directing traffic on a popular tourist route. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Dislodging rock in a digger can be hard enough, let alone when the machinery is balancing precariously on top of a massive slip. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Police have identified a recovered body from a river to be that of a missing man in Takaka. 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[Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Government farmer Landcorp is offloading 10 farms totalling about 11,650 hectares. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Wainuiomata Mall's largest tenant will not be reopening after it was forced to close following the deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Millions of litres of wine have been lost in Marlborough and the industry is scrambling to repair its tanks in time for harvest. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] Rural [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Government farmer Landcorp is offloading 10 farms totalling about 11,650 hectares. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Millions of litres of wine have been lost in Marlborough and the industry is scrambling to repair its tanks in time for harvest. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court judgment which awarded Waikato company Oraka Technologies $4.1 million in damages in a copyright case involving an asparagus grading machine. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Do we really want to run the risk of crippling the Waikato economy so we can swim the length of the river, asks Doug Edmeades. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Dairy company Synlait has signalled its intention to build a second drying plant, on the back of a quadrupling of its canned infant formula volumes from 4300 to 16,000 tonnes over the past year. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] A family owned Marlborough Sounds barge and tug company is looking to expand as log harvesting volumes increase over the next decade. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] World [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] A charter plane carrying Brazilian football team Chapecoense to the biggest game in its history crashed in the Colombian mountains after an electrical fault, killing 75 people on board, officials say. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] It started almost half a century ago, most likely with a ball over the fence that was sliced in half and thrown back. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been slid over the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the stricken reactor for the next 100 years. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Scurvy is something many of us associate with nautical misadventures and famine of years past, and for good reason: in the developed world, it has been all but eradicated. 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Perhaps, as some have suggested, Trump tweeted his ridiculous lie about millions of fraudulent votes on Sunday in order to distract people from a New York Times investigation of the overseas partnerships that present unprecedented conflict-of-interest problems for his foreign policy. But even if that wasn't his intent, it's what happened â€Â“ and he accomplished some other things as well. READ MORE: * Trump slams recount push as 'a scam' * What will Trump do with the nuclear codes? * Don't pick Romney for Secretary of State, Trump told * Trump makes baseless claim that 'millions voted illegally' [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] Entertainment [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] OPINION: I liked Ray Columbus. He was a real gentleman, but he had a wild, rock 'n roll streak and a great sense of humour, too. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Legendary rocker Ray Columbus has died. He was 74. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] MoreFM radio host Gary McCormick says he has "no idea what happened" to prompt Air New Zealand officials to ban him from flying with the airline. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title]  Neil Young has cancelled plans to perform in New Zealand next year, according to Frontier Touring. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] OPINION: Broadcaster Heather du Plessis-Allan will be denied the television journalists' ritual fond farewell after the co-host of Story was taken off air on Monday by MediaWorks' news chief Hal Crawford. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] This story was originally published on August 9, 2015 when Heather du Plessis-Allan first joined Mediaworks' Story. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] Sport [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] A mother has been left fuming after her son was disqualified from a Lower Hutt athletics tournament for running in bare feet. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] A charter plane carrying Brazilian football team Chapecoense to the biggest game in its history crashed in the Colombian mountains after an electrical fault, killing 75 people on board, officials say. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] Cricket Australia's desire to bed down pink ball cricket is behind the scheduling of the one-day series against New Zealand starting on Sunday that is jeopardising the test side's preparation for the second time this summer. [Share article on Facebook] [Share article on Twitter] [Share article on Google Plus] [Small Article Image] [Small Article Title] No doubts about it, test cricket is still alive and well. 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