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Snow has fallen in Canterbury overnight and there are restrictions in place on one of the alpine passes.

Photo: Getty Images Health professionals are expecting a fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose will be less popular in its uptake.

Snow has fallen in Canterbury overnight and there are restrictions in place on one of the alpine passes.

England captain Ben Stokes holds the trophy as he and members of the team celebrate winning the match and the series. Photo: Reuters England's final day blitz provided an appropriate end to the 3-0 series victory of world champions New Zealand at Headingley.

England captain Ben Stokes holds the trophy as he and members of the team celebrate winning the match and the series. Photo: Reuters England's final day blitz provided an appropriate end to the 3-0 series victory of world champions New Zealand at Headingley.

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Three Highlanders will start and two more will be eager for action off the bench when the Maori All Blacks play Ireland in Hamilton tomorrow night.

Tahjere McCall. PHOTO: MONICA TORETTO Tahjere McCall has linked with the Washington Wizards.

Captain Gina Crampton (second from left) and her Silver Ferns line up for official photographs in Auckland yesterday at the naming of the New Zealand netball squad for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES Kate Heffernan knew she was ready.

Incoming Meat Industry Association chairman Nathan Guy. Former primary industries minister Nathan Guy has been appointed chairman of the Meat Industry Association following the retirement of John Loughlin.

Justine and Geoff Ross and son Finn, with Sika, check native plantings in 2019 on Lake Hawea Station. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY An Otago station is one of the first properties to receive Native CarbonCrop Units through Nelson-founded climate tech startup CarbonCrop.

Your Property Solutions directors Billy McLachlan (left) and Slade Hocking, both of Christchurch, in Invercargill yesterday. PHOTO: BEN TOMSETT Slade Hocking wants to help "reactivate" the South’s commercial buildings, breathing life back into spaces he says should not go to waste.

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Ezra Tamati holds the tino rangatiratanga flag after succeeding in his campaign for it to be flown it above Otago Polytechnic. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH Following a year of campaigning, Otago Polytechnic students have been given permission to fly the tino rangatiratanga flag above their Dunedin campus.

Samuel Samson in court last year. PHOTO: ODT FILES The man convicted of the brutal murder of an Invercargill woman has had his bid for a reduced sentence tossed out.

Accused murderer Sandy Graham, and the man accused of being accessory after the fact, George Hyde, sit in the dock at the High Court in Invercargill at the beginning of the trial earlier this month. PHOTO: ODT FILES A person could fire a bullet from a rifle similar to that used to kill Dale Watene, without a magazine inserted and without them knowing it was loaded, jurors heard during a murder trial yesterday.

Forrester Heights in Oamaru. PHOTO: ODT FILES Despite the majority of submissions supporting reserve status for Forrester Heights, a report being presented to Waitaki District councillors today recommends a sale.

Dunstan High School pupils Kieran Boyd and Maria McKeen rearrange products at the Salvation Army headquarters in Alexandra yesterday. PHOTO: TRACIE BARRETT Volunteer South’s new community connector Neha Gosalia had a busy first day in the job yesterday, accompanying regional lead Gillian White to visit volunteers from Dunstan High School helping the community on a teacher-only day.