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Conscious cafes wear badges of honour

WELLINGTON cafes are doing their bit for the environment, one badge at a time. The Conscious Consumers movement awards badges to cafes which demonstrate that they are following specific ethical...

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New music venue to feature a capsule of wonder

MUSIC and multimedia come together at one of Wellington’s newest music venues, Caribbean Coffee Roasters on Cuba St, this weekend. Tomorrow night will be the venue’s third show, and it could be the...

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Young comic artists let imaginations run wild

CHILD'S PLAY: From left, Zora Patrick, Sadie Galloway, Michael Sanders, an unidentified enthusiastic friend, Esther Galloway and another cheerful friend. THEY weren’t old enough to drink the wine, but...

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Quake-risk facade looms above Cuba St playground

 A POPULAR playground in Cuba Mall could be crushed under falling masonry in a major earthquake. The playground sits in front of the old Working Mens’ Club Building, which was evacuated as an...

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Pay increase not filtering through on street

PAY RATES have gone up 3.8% in the past year but Wellington city workers spoken to by NewsWire have not noticed a change. In the year to the March 2012, the mean increase for all surveyed salary and...

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Winning poem suggests classic capital experience

A POEM evoking Wellington’s “café quarter”, Cuba St and its iconic Bucket Fountain, has won the Eat Your Words poetry competition. Downpour, written by Briar Davies, is about a day-to-day interaction...

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Fringe Festival tape artists take over Civic Square

A PAIR of tape artists are the latest Fringe Festival participants to share their craft with Civic Square. The artists set up a 3m cube on Wednesday. For the past five days, they have been creating...

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Wellington’s Golden Mile appears to be a safer place for pedestrians

SAFETY MEASURES put in place along Wellington’s Golden Mile appear to be working. “We have not had any reported pedestrian versus vehicle accidents since last year,” says council spokesman Richard...

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Oliver attracts crowds with his Weissenborn lap guitar

A CROWD packed a Wellington music store on Friday evening to hear Thomas Oliver perform on his unusual Weissenborn guitar. Oliver was launching his new album, which is the world’s first full-length,...

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Hundreds in midnight line-ups for Grand Theft Auto 5

  MIDNIGHT MADNESS: Eager customers queue neatly at EB Games on Cuba Street   GAMING GLORY: GTA fans line up outside JB Hi-Fi on Willis Street. MONDAY NIGHT saw the New Zealand launch of one of the...

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Council accused of being Christmas Grinch

by Oren Oaariki, Bethany Pearson, Lauren Mann and Sam Duff WELLINGTON City Council has been accused of being a Christmas Grinch after deciding not to decorate the city this festive season. Instead the...

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Word on the street says inequality on voters’ minds tonight

AN HOUR before polling booths closed, Yc Lee and Jonty Dine took to the sodden Wellington streets to gauge the mood of the capital. Political scandals and child poverty were on the minds of Wellington...

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CubaDupa crowds dance in the rain

RAIN did not stop performers and spectators from enjoying the first day of the two-day CubaDupa festival celebratinh Wellington’s iconic Cuba Street. The festival opened with a mass choir singing a...

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WATCH: Dixon St Shoe Repairs, a heritage business

This family business is in its second and third generation with father and son duo Esvar and Vijay Parbhu fronting the Dixon St shop since 1989. Mr Parbhu senior, father and grandfather to the current...

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Key resignation shocks Wellingtonians

Wellingtonians appear shocked but have mixed emotions following news that Prime Minister John Key is resigning.   After eight years of leading the country, the Prime Minister surprised reporters at a...

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