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A fire that extensively damaged the former Winchmore Church on Saturday night is being treated as suspicious.

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A fire that extensively damaged the former Winchmore Church on Saturday night is being treated as suspicious.

The Ashburton fire brigade was called to the fire at about 11.30pm to find the rear to the building well involved, chief fire officer Alan Burgess said.

“It was just a matter of bringing that under control,” he said.

“There’s substantial damage to the rear of the building, and heat and other damage to the rest of the premises.”

He said the angle of the pitched roof provided an additional challenge for firefighters.

Burgess said two frontline fire appliances and two water tankers attended, along with around 16 to 18 firefighters.

They were there for around three hours putting the fire out, he said, before being called back about an

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hour and a half later to a fire in a hedge line that runs along one side of the church.

Burgess was unsure whether the hedge fire was a result of smouldering from the first fire or was a separate incident.

A police spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that the fire was being investigated and that it was being treated as suspicious, adding that along with the hedge fire, a letterbox in the area was also set on fire around the same time.

The former church, which dates back to 1911, had not been used for worship for about six years and was only recently bought by a Canterbury artist.

When contacted yesterday, Property Brokers agent Greg Jopson, who handled the sale, said he was aware of the fire but could not comment further as he was out of town.

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■ FIRE

Winchmore church gutted in suspicious fire From P1 An auction of the chattels, including wooden church pews, a lecturn, old hymn books and a harmonium, was due to be held on-site on January 27, with all proceeds to go towards Winchmore projects.

Former parishioner Maureen Maginness, who said she felt “absolutely numb” when she was told about the fire, said all the chattels, other than two war memorial boards, one from each world war, and an extremely old bible, were inside the church at the time of the fire. Fortunately the memorials and bible had been removed earlier for safekeeping.

Maginness said everyone associated with the former church was in shock.

“It’s been there for about 107 years.

It withstood the storm of 1975 and all the earthquakes only to be vandalised. It’s quite heartbreaking.”

She said members of the church community will meet this morning to decide what to do next.

“I can’t quite believe it. It’s so very, very sad.”

Right - Constable Aaron Collins from Timaru inspects the damage after a suspicious fire at the former Winchmore Church.

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■ EDUCATION

NCEA pass results pleasing

BY KATIE TODD

KATIE.T@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Ashburton College’s efforts supporting “at risk” level 1 students, and encouraging senior students to return to school for NCEA level 3, have paid off.

The school received its overall NCEA pass results from 2017, and principal Ross Preece said he is “chuffed” with the results.

At level 1, 85.2 per cent of students passed, up 5 per cent on 2016. At level 2, 86.4 per cent passed, up 4 per cent on 2016. At

level 3, 68.2 per cent passed level 3, up 9 per cent on 2016.

A total of 44.2 per cent of students also qualified for university entrance, which is a 2 per cent increase on 2016.

“Within the mid-band decile rating of four to seven we actually did significantly better than other schools,” said Preece.

“We’re very pleased.”

Preece said the college had worked throughout 2013 to make Year 13 a “more relevant year”.

“We’ve had a bit of an emphasis

on trying to make students return for level 3, even if they are not intending to go to university.”

This year, he said, the school will continue working to match up senior students with local employment opportunities.

Preece also credits new early alert systems implemented in 2017 for helping raise the level 1 pass rate.

“A lot of support was brought in during 2017 to help at risk students, and to measure how students are tracking.

“We’ve had two or three new initiatives brought in to support students, including predictive grades.”

Though an NCEA review is looming and changes are afoot over the coming years, Preece said the school will be continuing with the status quo in 2018.

“I think the changes will take place over the next five years, and it will be interesting to see if in 10 years’ time, students are even sitting exams. One of the things NZQA has been very upfront

about is that the exam system is increasingly less relevant to future skills,” he said.

“And I’ve been heartened to see that they have acknowledged they need to consult widely with teachers throughout the year.”

As for 2018, he said the college would be continuing to work with the current system and build on pathways for level 3 students.

National data on student achievement and pass rates in 2017 has not yet been released by NZQA.

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■ EDUCATION

■ EDUCATION

Winterbourn calls it a day

New sports fields costs a share-deal

By Katie todd

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He’s one of the district’s longest serving and popular principals, and he knows education from the inside out.

But after an impressive 42 years in the education industry, including 23 “paddling the waka” at Ashburton Borough School, Sam Winterbourn is ready to make term 1 and 2 his final two terms working inside the school gate.

He’ll be handing over to a new principal in June.

Over the years, Winterbourn has made his mark in five teaching positions and four principal roles in Canterbury and Central Otago, including a number of special education schools.

Working in the industry has been rewarding, challenging, interesting and an absolute privilege, he said, and playing the role of principal has brought him enormous satisfaction.

“You bring ideas and you see them right through to fruition,” he said.

“The school becomes your stage, and education is your art form.

“And it’s a rewarding career.

Education really enriches you, through the people you meet along the way and all the life experience you gain.”

During his time at Ashburton Borough School Winterbourn has captained a number of developments, from the addition of Year 7 and 8 students, to the merger with Lagmhor School.

He oversaw the construction of new buildings including modern learning environments and a performance centre. The school gained accreditation to the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme – the first in the South Island to do so. And in order to help fund the IB programme, Winterbourn came up with the bright idea of selling naming rights to classrooms.

It’s been a hugely project-driven time, he said, and there’s still a number of hugely significant projects in the pipeline – from

By Sue NewmaN

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After an impressive 42 years in the education industry, Ashburton Borough School principal Sam Winterbourn will leave the school at the end of term two.

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“And I don’t think I can commit another five years to those projects,” he said.

“This place has been incredible and kind to me but ... now I’m hanging on by my fingernails. Maybe it’s time to create a project for me and my wife.”

Winterbourn said he is also immensely grateful to all the staff he’s worked with, the incredible support of a succession of boards, and to the children that became adults and he can now genuinely call friends.

three daughters, Emma, Lucy and Sophie, who live in Singapore, Christchurch and London respectively.

It’s an exciting time in many respects, he said, but making the decision to leave was not something he took lightly.

“The children brought me into this game and the children have kept me in it,” he said.

“In every shape, form and guise, children are great. They all bring something to the table, with their quirks and their talents and it’s a privilege to have been a part of their lives,” he said.

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“This place has been incredibly kind to me,” he said.

“But it’s the right time to go.”

Over the years, he has also completed principal stints at Pigeon Bay Primary School, Roxborough Health Camp School and Methven Primary School.

And it’s near the location of the first school where he and his wife, Jacquie, plan to soon build their retirement home.

“At that job I left a value of friends behind and that’s why we’re returning,” he said.

He and Jacquie also hope to travel and spend time with their

When and how green fields around the EA Networks Centre are developed could be squarely in the community’s hands.

The development is likely to cost in excess of $4.5 million and first draft plans were presented to Ashburton District councillors last year. They outlined a development that was predominantly for rugby and softball but the plan was one that could be altered and extended to accommodate a range of users.

It also included an extensive walking and cycling track around its perimeter. A probable timeframe for the development was over the years from 2019 to 2021.

It has been tagged in the council’s long-term plan to encourage community feedback when the draft plan goes out for consultation in March.

When the plan was under discussion during last week’s longterm plan discussions, business services manager Paul Brake said the council needed to go out to the public with its best case scenario, spelling out what it planned and when.

From the outside there were discussions around financial contributions at some level from users, but last week councillors wanted to take a different approach to the project, saying users should play a big role in funding the development.

Council wasn’t in a position to pour millions of dollars into a sports area that would benefit a range of sporting codes without any return, councillor Russell Ellis said. He suggested that when the council prepared its budgets as part of the long-term plan it should show 50 per cent of funds coming from the community or from user groups, he said.

This would mean that from the outset users would understand they’d need to come up with around $2.25 million before the development went ahead, Ellis said.

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■ JOBSEEKERS

Jobseeker numbers rising

BY SUE NEWMAN

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The number of registered jobseekers in the Ashburton District for the December quarter has hit a five-year high.

Ministry of Social Development figures show there were 405 people registered as looking for work at the end of December, up from 383 last December.

Jobseeker numbers have risen steadily for the December quarter over the past five years, up from 297 in 2013.

The number of people receiving single parent support, however, dropped significantly for the quarter, down to 271 from 305 in December 2016.

Numbers have been dropping steadily over the past five years.

The number receiving a supported living benefit available to people who are unable to work because of ill health was up in December to 419 from 399 in December 2016.

Across all benefit categories, there were more people receiving a benefit in the De-

cember quarter, 1114, for any December quarter over the past five years.

Nationally benefit numbers dropped in the December quarter, compared to the previous year.

A total of 289,788 people were receiving a main benefit, down 2.4 per cent.

Job support, 123,041 recipients and sole parent, 60,678 numbers were down by 1 per cent and 6.6 per cent respectively.

Just 0.5 per cent of New Zealand’s working age population is receiving a benefit.

Rakaia mobile generator on radar It might be just a $25,000 investment, but it’s an investment that could make a huge difference in the lives of people in the Rakaia area if a major earthquake occurs.

Ashburton District councillors have agreed to fund a mobile generator for the Rakaia community, one that would be stored in a community base, possibly the village’s school, but could be moved to where ever it was needed.

The risk of power supply being lost in Rakaia was very slim, but the generator should be considered part of the council’s forward planning in case the alpine fault ruptured, said mayor Donna Favel.

“We are the body charged with civil defence regardless and regardless of the number of home generators around, they’d all be busy. If there is a major earthquake, then you’ll have a lot of transient people who’ll be stuck in Rakaia and they’ll be looking for support,” she said.

Funding for the generator will be built into the council’s 2099/2020 budget.

Man hurt in assault A man is in Christchurch hospital with serious head injuries after being assaulted, police say. The alleged attack occurred about 11pm on Saturday in Sewell Street in the suburb of Linwood. Police are yet to release further details, saying they were speaking to witnesses as well as family of the man, aged in his early 20s.

They have called for anyone with information to contact them.

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Motorbike rider dies A motorcyclist has died in a crash with a car near Lake Taupo.

The rider collided with a car on Whangamata Road in Kinloch on Saturday afternoon and was transported to hospital in a critical condition, police say. He later died in hospital from his injuries.

Investigators are working to determine the cause of the crash.

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Year 2 students at Ashburton Borough School can look forward to returning to new classrooms later this month.

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■ EDUCATION

Classroom block taking shape

BY KATIE TODD

KATIE.T@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

A refurbished classroom block at Ashburton Borough School is quickly taking shape.

While students have been

away, new “remodeled” classrooms have popped up inside the school gates and are nearing completion.

Principal Sam Winterbourn said the new area will be uti-

lised as a collaborative learning space for Year 2 students.

If everything goes to plan, he said students will be shifting in during their first week back at school.

Three people are in hospital after a large fight broke out on the same Auckland street where a person was earlier hit and almost killed by a car, police say. The fight reportedly started when a group of people forced their way into a house on Tripoli Road in Panmure late on Saturday night. Police say the house was damaged and two people were stabbed during the melee, while another person suffered a blunt force injury. All three were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Two people, found near the house, are now assisting police with their inquiries. Police believe the fight is connected to an incident in the same street early on Saturday morning, when two people were run over by a car. The car hit a crowd of people after a street brawl erupted on Tripoli Road, near the intersection with Hobson Drive, police said. Two people were taken to hospital.

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Lotto results Official Lotto results for draw number 1718 drawn on Saturday.

Winning numbers (in ascending order): 1, 12, 17, 20, 26, 39.

Bonus number: 7.

Powerball winning number: 1.

Strike: 20, 17, 26, 1.

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■ BIG LITTLE THEATRE COMPANY

■ ROCKET LAB

Film-makers hit the red carpet

Blast off for Rocket Lab

BY COLIN WILLISCROFT

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The red carpet was rolled out at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on Friday night to celebrate the work of young movie makers.

The centre’s big screen was showing a music video and two short movies created at the Big Little Theatre Company’s summer school, which was held last week.

Theatre director Jackie Heffernan said the standard of the work was fantastic.

“They were better than I could have expected,” she said. “The quality of the movies was extremely professional.”

All three works, which were original and collaborations between the students, utilised Tinwald’s Plains Museum as a backdrop.

Eight senior students, aged between 13 to 16 years old, created an atmospheric five-minute film called Incandesce.

Heffernan said it was a “stunning” short film, with its story based around an old cottage at the museum.

Filming at night meant the students could make use of visual effects, which added to the story, she said.

The junior students, who ranged in age from six to 12 years old, were divided up into small groups that had to come up with different storylines.

These were pitched to the other groups.

The winning concept was then worked on by all 40 juniors, resulting in another five-minute film, this one called Stolen.

Some of those junior students also produced a four-minute music video, which was danceinspired.

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Young film-makers Brooke Stewart, Maddie Webb and Esme Heffernan hit the red carpet at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

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This follows the company’s first launch last May, in which the rocket got to space but did not make it to orbit after range safety officials had to kill the flight.

Rocket Lab earlier said it had pinpointed the problem that meant its first Electron rocket was killed before it got to orbit with the company saying at the time that it was confident the fault had been ironed out.

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Dotcom marries, sues government German-born internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has married his fiance Elizabeth Donnelly in Queenstown, and celebrated by serving “a multi-billion-dollar damages claim” against the New Zealand government.

“Today, six years ago, the NZ Govt enabled the unlawful destruction of Megaupload and seizure of my global assets,” he wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

On January 20, 2012, Dotcom and three associates were arrested in a raid, in which over 70 heavily armed officers descended on his $NZ30 million mansion near Auckland at the request of the United States.

“My lawyers have served a multi billion dollar damages claim against the Govt today,” he added.

He also shared photos of his wedding on Twitter, including one of his “best man,” a caramel coloured Cavoodle named “Toby Dotcom”.

Kim Dotcom and Elizabeth Donnelly have tied the knot.

Dotcom is in the middle of fighting his extradition to the United States on 13 counts including conspiracy to commit racketeering, copyright infringement, money laundering and wire fraud, all relating to the operations of Dotcom’s former file-

sharing website Megaupload.

The 23-year-old Donnelly is Dotcom’s third wife. The 43-yearold separated from his second wife Mona, the mother of four of his children, in 2014. He married his first wife, with whom he has one child, in 2007.

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Iwis secure $370m in extra Treaty payments

Two iwi have banked $370 million in extra payments, on top of their original Treaty of Waitangi settlements.

Waikato-Tainui and the South Island’s Ngai Tahu received the $190m and $180m top ups in December.

The two iwi were the first to settle with the Crown – WaikatoTainui in 1995 and Ngai Tahu 1998 – and secured a clause allowing them a share of all later settlements, once collective Treaty payouts with other iwi reached $1 billion.

That threshold was crossed in 2012 when Hawke’s Bay and Bay of Plenty’s Tuhoe settled its claim.

The Crown has since gone on to spend more than $2 billion on settlements, leading WaikatoTainui and Ngai Tahu to pocket a total of $260m and $248m, re-

spectively, on top of their original $170m settlements, Stuff reports.

Ngai Tahu chairwoman Lisa Tumahai told the media outlet the clause ensured her iwi was not disadvantaged by settling early because its payments would continue “to remain relative with all future claims settled by other iwi”.

The payments are also not likely to end soon. There are still 47 treaty negotiations under way in New Zealand, including Northland’s Ngaphui, who are making one of the country’s biggest claims.

Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little said the government had to honour its contractual obligations to the iwis.

“We’re stuck with what we’ve got. That’s the reality,” he said.

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■ WICKED PRODUCTION

Jack ready for challenge

BY KATIE TODD

KATIE.T@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Jack Hanrahan was eight years old and sitting in the audience of Fiddler on the Roof when he decided performing arts was what he wanted to do with his life.

“I looked at my mum and I said, ‘I want to do that’, and she just said, ‘sure’!” he said.

Thirteen years later, true to his word, Jack has a NASDA course, six years of singing lessons, eight Big Little Theatre Company shows, five years’ worth of Variety Theatre shows, endless Summer Singing School productions and “every other opportunity there was to take in Ashburton” under his belt.

Now, the 21-year-old is ready to tackle his first role out of NASDA, in the ensemble of Wicked in Christchurch.

The Showbiz-produced show will open on April 6, and it’s a role Jack said he was thrilled to land.

“A lot of people auditioned and I know a lot of people who missed out, but I was really thrilled to get it,” he said.

Under the direction of Steven Robinson, Jack will be performing along a host of Kiwi talent, including two other Ashburtonians – Jane Leonard and Greta Casey-Soley.

The family-friendly classic follows the story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: blonde, very popular Glinda and misunderstood,

green-skinned Elphaba. It will show 10 times at the Isaac Theatre Royale, and will be proudly attended by Jack’s mum and dad among other friends.

“I have a lot of thanks to my parents, who have supported me so much,” said Jack.

“I got my licence really late so there were a lot of late nights for them growing up, with rehearsals and singing lessons and so on.”

He also credits his singing teacher Jo Castelow, without whom he said he would not have got through the “really scary” NASDA auditions and into the performing arts school.

Beyond Wicked, Jack said he looks forward to imparting his own theatrical knowledge to learners. He has also just been accepted into a one-year teaching course for performing arts.

“I’ve always enjoyed the directing aspect of performance and I’m looking forward to teaching. I like helping people and saying ‘let me help you with what I know’ kind of thing,” he said.

It will be a balancing act – workshops and rehearsals for Wicked, classes for the teaching course and part-time work at Burgers & Beers in Christchurch – but Jack is ready and raring to go.

“I’ve dropped off a big colour-coded schedule of my rehearsals and classes to work,” he laughed.

Tickets and more information on the Showbiz season of Wicked is available at ticketek. co.nz/showbiz.

Ashburton born and raised Jack Hanrahan is thrilled to have landed a spot in the ensemble of Wicked.

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Help make your community beautiful

BY KATIE TODD

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If you had a blank wall and a paintbrush, what would you produce?

Next month, Keep New Zealand Beautiful and Resene are giving locals the opportunity to “help paint New Zealand beautiful,” with the 2018 Nature Murals Competition.

Locals who pitch the best idea for a mural celebrating the natural environment will win a $1000 grant and all the materials to paint it.

Keep New Zealand Beautiful CEO Heather Saunderson said studies have shown a decrease in anti-social behaviour such as littering and graffiti in areas where community art is present.

“Together with Resene, we are proud to give the opportunity to artists and communities to beautify their environment and help us create a safer, cleaner and more

beautiful New Zealand.”

The winner of the 2017 Nature Murals Competition, Deow Owen, finished his winning mural Mai Mai Girl, at the Star Rugby Club, Invercargill, in December.

Deow said the design was based on an image of his fiance, hiding in the shrubs in the park. The mural took three days to complete, including a day of design, with positive feedback received from passers-by.

Artists interested in the Nature Murals competition can register their interest before January 31 to be in the draw to win a Wacom Creative Pen Tablet.

Mural competition submissions open on February 1 and more information can be found at.org.nz/ nature-murals-competition

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ARTS DIARY ■ January 28: Forever Young exhibition by Heather Sarin opens at the Ashburton Art Gallery, until March 4.

■ Until January 31 – Cash & Carry Exhibition at Methven Art Gallery.

■ February 14: Kevin Bloody Wilson Almost Awesome Tour at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ February 20: Ashburton Arts & Garden Tour.

■ February 20: Ashburton Society of Arts Summer Show opens at the Short Street Studio.

■ February 22: The Michael Jackson HIStory Show at Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ March 2: Zonta Ashburton Female Art Award opening and awards presentation, on exhibit until 31 March.

■ March 2: Memory of Place Takes Flight exhibition opens at the Ashburton Art Gallery, until 31 March.

■ March 11: Fiona Van Oyen floor talk at Ashburton Art Gallery.

■ March 22: Kelvin Cruickshank Live at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ April 1 – April 11: Art Gallery exhibition space temporarily closed at Ashburton Art Gallery.

■ April 11: The Water Project exhibition opens at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

■ April 19: Olive Copperbottom – Arts on Tour NZ at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ April 27: Foster & Alan Golden Years at Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ May 4 – Hopetoun Bros & The Genius of Finn Scholes at Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ May 18 – Mamma Mia at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

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Trying to see past frustration Colin Williscroft SENIOR REPORTER

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eaction to the suspicious fire at the former Winchmore Church on the Methven highway has been one of sadness and frustration.

Although at the time of writing the cause is yet to be confirmed, given it is being treated as suspicious and there was also a fire in a letterbox in the area, many of those who have taken to social media over it have assumed it was deliberately lit.

Comments on the Ashburton Guardian Facebook page have referred to those responsible as mongrels, called for them to be strung up, and for “the law to come down hard on them”.

Most people however have expressed sadness at the fate of a much-loved community landmark and shared some of their memories of the place.

As to why anyone would want to set fire to a historic building, I’ve already heard hot weather and school holiday boredom mentioned as a likely catalyst.

I can see what those opinions are based on but at this stage I’m going to reserve judgment until those responsible (if it was deliberate) have been found.

In the meantime, the person I feel most for is the unnamed Canterbury artist who only bought the place days ago. They must be devastated.

Other casualties include the local projects that were going to benefit from a sale of the building’s chattels.

Of course if you want to take a positive out of the fire it’s another example of the unselfish contribution volunteer firefighters make to their local communities.

Late last year they came from all around the region to fight the large fire at the SealesWinslow plant south of Ashburton, which resulted in two firefighters being hospitalised.

When I interviewed the company’s chief operating officer not long after it was nice to hear him expressing how grateful he was for the efforts of those who fought the fire.

It was even nicer to hear the company was going to help those brigades out financially.

Volunteer firefighters are some of the unsung heroes of the communities they operate in but usually go unappreciated. We’d be much the poorer off without them.

So from me at least, thanks again for your efforts. You probably don’t hear it often enough but they are appreciated.

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hope that 2018 has started well for you. I am sure many of you have appreciated the absence of politicians on our radios and TV screens over the Christmas-New Year holiday period!

While politicians do often attract a great deal of criticism, I have found that most New Zealand Members of Parliament get into politics because they genuinely want to make a positive difference to their communities.

For this reason all New Zealanders should be very concerned, as I am, by the Government’s proposed changes to the Electoral Act which will enable party leaders, rather that the public, to dismiss MPs from our Parliament.

Currently, political parties are entitled to remove MPs from their caucus but not from Parliament.

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missed from parliament by their party leader. This is a fundamental change to the democratic principle that the public and the public alone get to hire and fire MPs. The great risk from such a change is that it will stifle debate and further concentrate power with political parties and leaders.

Dissent and debate can sometimes make Parliament messy, but they are essential ingredients to a properly functioning democracy.

A survey of other Parliaments around the world shows just how far out of whack this bill is from democratic norms.

Only a few failed democracies like Zimbabwe, Rwanda and

Bangladesh enable a party leader to sack an MP. The courts in Europe have struck down such laws as unconstitutional.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union, based in Switzerland, represents 173 Parliaments and is damning of the sort of law being proposed for New Zealand, saying it creates “political party dictatorships”. It argues the free mandate of MPs is an “indispensable guarantee of parliamentary democracy.”

The origin of this law change is Winston Peters, who deeply resented the fact that nearly half of his MPs defected during the first MMP government.

These eight MPs dared disagree with their leader over his walking out of the then Jenny Shipley-led Government. They believed they were acting in the best interests of New Zealand.

The Government justifies this law change on the basis that MPs who vote differently to the party line are upsetting the proportionally of Parliament and the in-

tegrity of the election outcome.

This erroneously assumes that political parties and leaders have a monopoly on integrity.

The history of New Zealand parliamentary dissidents suggest it is the party and its leadership that more commonly strays from a party’s elected mandate.

I am particularly astounded by the Green Party support for this law change.

They described a near identical bill in 2005 as one of the worst to ever come before our Parliament.

Freedom of speech and tolerance of dissent are core Kiwi values.

We must reject this attempt to weaken our parliamentary democracy.

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■ UNITED STATES

Trump frustrated by anniversary shutdown Hours after shuttering much of the US government, feuding Democrats and Republicans began dodging blame as the immigration stand-off continues with little sign of progress in the negotiations.

The finger-pointing has played out in rare weekend proceedings in Congress in both the House and Senate, as lawmakers sought to show voters they’re actively working for a solution – or actively making

their case why the other party is at fault.

“The American people cannot begin to understand why the Senate Democratic leader thinks the entire government should be shut down until he gets his way on illegal immigration,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., hours after a last-chance Senate vote failed.

Democrats have refused to provide the votes needed to reopen the government until they strike a deal with President Donald Trump protecting young immigrants from deportation, providing disaster relief and boosting spending for opioid treatment and other domestic programmes.

Democrats feel “very, very strongly about the issues” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.

The fighting followed a late-night Friday vote in which Senate Democrats blocked a House-passed measure that would have kept agencies functioning for four weeks.

Republicans began the day hopeful they might gain Democratic support for a three-week version and bring the episode to a quick end.

Democrats want an alternative lasting only several days – which they think would pressure Republicans to cut an immigration deal – and say they’ll kill the three-week version when the Senate votes on it early this week.

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cided with the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration.

It also came as protesters marched outside the White House in a reprise of the women’s march from a year ago.

Trump was out of sight and cancelled plans to travel to his resort in Florida for the weekend.

But he did tweet that the Democrats “wanted to give me a nice present” to mark his second year in office.

Instead Trump worked the phones, staying in touch with McConnell, while White House legislative affairs director Marc Short and budget chief Mick Mulvaney met at the Capitol with House Republicans.

GOP lawmakers voiced support for the White House stance of not negotiating while the government was shuttered.

Republicans have blamed the breakdown on Schumer, while the Democrats have increasingly focused their messaging on criticising Trump, using his zigagging stance on immigration to underscore a chaotic first year.

“Negotiating with President Trump is like negotiating with Jell-O,” Schumer said.

Short compared Democrats’ actions to “a two-year-old temper tantrum.”

The Statue of Liberty – the nation’s emblem of its immigrant past – and Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell were closed on Saturday but visitors were able to enter other iconic national parks like Yellowstone.

Social Security and most other safetynet programmes were unaffected by the lapse in federal spending authority. - AP

■ INDIA

Firework factory blast kills 17 A massive fire has broken out at a fireworks factory on the northern outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi, killing at least 17 workers, a fire official says.

It took three hours for a dozen crews to extinguish the blaze in the Bawana industrial area on Sunday with seventeen bodies so far recovered, fire offical KC Gupta said.

One injured worker is in hospital and recovery teams are now searching for more trapped workers in the gutted two-storey structure.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

There are fatal accidents nearly every year in India as people work in makeshift factories in the absence of proper safety standards.

In June last year, 23 people died in an explosion while they were making fireworks in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India.

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Ed Sheeran and Cherry Seaborn

Ed Sheeran engaged Ed Sheeran has announced his engagement to girlfriend Cherry Seaborn.

The Grammy-winning singer posted a picture of the two on his Instagram page at the weekend saying the two got engaged right before the new year.

He said they are “very happy and in love” and that their “cats are chuffed as well”. Sheeran said last fall how Seaborn inspired his song Perfect, which is Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Sheeran and Seaborn were friends when the two attended school in Suffolk, England. They reconnected years later.

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Dave Grohl

Tour kicks off in Perth Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl says Perth was the “perfect place” to end the band’s last Australian tour, so for their return they decided to pick up where they left off. The American rock band played Perth’s nib Stadium on Saturday night in support of their ninth studio album Concrete and Gold, but also delivered most of their biggest hits including All My Life, Learn To Fly, Breakout and Best of You. Foo Fighters started the show with a high energy that carried on through the rest of the almost three-hour concert.

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‘The truth will come out’

■ CZECH REPUBLIC

Gold Logie winning actor Craig McLachlan will fight the claims of sexual misconduct against him saying his career has been “annihilated” by the accusations. The former Rocky Horror show star admits the show’s backstage culture could be lewd, but McLachlan insists he is innocent of the allegations against him, he said. McLachlan left the stage show mid-January amid allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour, with his understudy taking to the stage as Frank N Furter for the Brisbane and Perth season. It came after three women said McLachlan inappropriately touched them or exposed himself.

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Two die, dozens hurt in hotel fire At least two people have died and dozens injured in a hotel fire in Prague, local authorities say.

Nine people needed hospital treatment, including two who were in a critical condition after being resuscitated, an emergency spokesman said.

The fire broke out in one of the floors of the hotel in Prague’s New Town and spread through the hotel’s air conditioning system before it was extinguished.

Of those hurt, five people were seriously injured, the Prague Emergency Medical Service said.

“Unfortunately we were not able to help two people,” the EMS said on its Twitter.

Seznam Zpravy news website reported the hotel has 152 beds.

Rescue officials had earlier said 40 were injured, although Czech media reported that most were treated for smoke inhalation on the spot and not taken to hospital.

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■ AUSTRIA

This is the iconic shot of Hallstatt that has enticed tourists over the decades.

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o a Google image search of “Hallstatt” and you’ll notice that it’s one particular perspective, looking long across the length of the slender village, strung along a shoe-string peninsula, pricked by lofty church spires, that sings out loud.

Wedged between the edge of

An ancient village in Austria is a destination that mobilises travellers through the power of one photo, from one particular angle, as Mike Yardley writes.

Lake Hallstatt and the towering Dachstein mountains, Austria’s oldest – and arguably most photographed village – hovered

like a mirage, as I neared it. It is insanely quaint, achingly beautiful and home to just 800 residents.

The Dachstein Stairway to Nothingness juts out from a rock face, providing those game enough to walk out on it breathtaking alpine vistas.

High above Hallstatt, in the upper valley, one of the greatest eye-openers was to take a journey back in time to the origin of salt production.

Salzwelten is situated high above the town on the 1030-metre-tall Salzberg (Salt Mountain). You can access this remarkable attraction aboard a funicular.

My first stop was at Rudolf’s Tower, which serves up dreamy views from this old fortification, built over 700 years ago to defend the mines against invaders.

It’s been joined by the Sky Walk, built four years ago, consisting of a sprawling platform that juts off the mountainside, with a sheer drop to the rooftops of Hallstatt, directly below.

The starring attraction, however, is the 7000-year-old salt mine itself.

Yes, you read right. Seven thousand years! It’s the world’s oldest known salt mine, with archaeological evidence proving they were mining the salt from this mountain in 5000BC. Since salt is such an excellent preservative many of the early miner’s tools like pick axes and

ladders, found within the mine, have withstood the ravages of time.

The earliest picks were made from deer antlers, which meant the salt was originally mined in the shape of hearts. By 800BC, the hardy miners were penetrating as deep as 200 metres into the mountain, carving out tunnels by hand, to reach the vast deposits of “white gold”.

The greatest discovery to date was the Man in Salt, the corpse of an ancient miner, mummified in salt, who is believed to have perished during a major workplace accident in 1000BC. His preserved body was found in 1734 and he was laid to rest in the local graveyard, 2700 years after dying. Within the mine, I marvelled over the magnificently preserved wooden staircase that was built in 1344BC! As you’d expect, this ancient salt mine is separated into different levels. The tourist experience takes you through two levels, using the wooden slides that the miners actually used on the job. Riding these 64-metrelong slides must have been the fun part to their daily toil.

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Some of the skulls residing in St Michael’s Chapel’s Bone House.

The market square in the quaint village of Hallstatt.

Th Hallstatt salt mine is believed to be the Tourists get to take a ride on the wooden world’s oldest, dating back 7000 years. slides that the salt miners actually used.

Back down in town, I paid to visit to St Michael’s Chapel’s Bone House. Dating back to the 12th century, the rather macabre draw is the hundreds of artistically painted skulls on display.

Hallstatt’s shortage of available land meant the graveyard was always in hot demand and after several years, an existing grave was reused for a new burial.

The skull and bones were transferred to St Michael’s for storage and the identity of the deceased family member was preserved by decorative paintings and inscriptions.

Over 30,000 entries have been logged in the church death registry.

Given Hallstatt’s glorious sense of alpine isolation, the area is ripe with outdoorsy opportunities. Backdropped by the Dachstein mountains, the peaks play host to skiers in winter and hikers in the warmer months.

Some walks will take you up close to glaciers, including the stunning nature walk on the

Echerntal Trail, which many a romantic poet and painter have swooned over.

The mountains are also famous for the spectacular Dachstein Caves, a network of caverns nearly 1200 metres deep.

Highlights include the Giant Ice Cave with its wondrous caverns and frozen waterfalls, and the Mammoth Cave (consisting of huge pipe-shaped galleries formed by an ancient underground river.

Other highlights are the panoramic viewing platforms, like 5 Fingers and the Stairway to Nothingness, jutting out from the rock face with alpine vistas.

At ground level, the World Heritage circular trail, wrapped around the shoreline of Lake Hallstatt is pure bliss.

Getting to Hallstatt takes some effort, but if you’re staying in Vienna or Salzburg, take the two hour train ride from either destination.

The pint-sized station above the lake is like a scene out of a

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Southern men too strong By lindA ClArke

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Southland made short work of Mid Canterbury in their Hawke Cup challenge at the Ashburton Domain over the weekend.

The visitors arrived with former New Zealand under 19 rep and Otago Volt Jacob Duffy, who helped them bowl Mid Canterbury out for 70 in just under two hours on Saturday.

Duffy claimed the first wicket of James Southby after just 13 balls had been bowled, and went on to claim Matt Tait to finish with 2/3, his eight overs producing six maidens.

Harsh Visavadiya was the chief destroyer in the first innings though with four wickets.

Des Kruger 19 and Matt Winter 20 provided the most resistance for Mid Canterbury and it was a baptism by fire for debutant Alex Hooper, who was caught by Duffy on 1.

Hooper bowled well when it was Southland’s turn to bat, opening the bowling and claiming the scalp of James Ng on his second ball.

Mid Canterbury cricket identity Bob Bruhns officiated his 199th senior game on Saturday, and has been named NZ Cricket’s official of the year.

It was tough going after that with Visavadiya’s 84 the best effort for Southland.

James Speer took three wickets and Ryan Cockburn, with Sean Stagg and James Southby one each.

Southland was eventually all out for 209 and put the Mid Canterbury side back in to bat, claiming several wickets before play was suspended for the day with Mid Canterbury sitting on 48 for three.

Mid Canterbury returned yesterday determined to at least reach the follow on target of 139 but was dismissed before lunch on 118.

Duffy, who has been working on his bowling action since last summer, claimed five wickets for 41, while Jason Osborne took three as the main support.

Will Southby 10, Tait 24, Cockburn 26 and Hooper 38, were the only four batsmen to reach double figures.

Hooper’s first appearance for Mid Canterbury was one of two highlights for the hosts – the other was Mid Canterbury scorer Bob Bruhns, who was officiating his 199th senior game.

Bruhns has been named as New Zealand Cricket’s official of the year and will receive the award in April, alongside other champion volunteers as a black tie event.

New Zealand Cricket said the awards to be presented that night will mark the endless time and commitment given by the recipients to improving the game in their communities.

Credit where it’s due for Black Caps coach

By Andrew Alderson Meet Mike Hesson, New Zealand’s longest serving cricket coach.

His team has been inundated with plaudits as they keep adding to a New Zealand-record 12-match winning streak in completed games across all formats, culminating in a 5-0 one-day international defeat of Pakistan.

That surpassed two sequences of 10, both achieved within the last three years of a Hesson reign which began in August 2012.

Before the last ODI in Wellington – or any match – Hesson channels quiet confidence.

His team has done the preparation and it’s time for them to sit the exam.

A purposeful stride takes him to the wicket block. He chats with the ground staff before others queue for a series of handshakes and exchanges of pleasantries.

Soon Hesson escapes to solitude of his tennis racquet and balls that he hits to his charges.

He is equally adept at delivering slip catches. It’s a fair bet no cricketer in New Zealand is better at finding the edge of their bat.

The idea of a New Zealand team having a coach came into

vogue when Glenn Turner took the role in 1985 with the test series win over Australia.

Hesson took charge five years and five months ago. The next longest reign was John Bracewell’s five years and two months from September 2003 to November 2008.

“My coaching philosophy is essentially built around setting world-class standards to produce excellence, and that’s what I intend to do with the Black Caps,” Hesson said upon his appointment.

He has been as good as his word. This New Zealand era has drawn comparisons with the Richard Hadlee-inspired 1980s.

Hesson’s team have played 51 tests, won 20, lost 19 and drawn 12. By generic comparison the 1980s had 59 tests of which 17 were won, 15 lost and 27 drawn.

In completed ODIs, Hesson has overseen 107 for 63 wins, 43 losses and a tie; the 1980s results were 122 played, 56 won and 66 lost.

If the incumbents placed their achievements on a mantelpiece, New Zealand’s first World Cup final appearance in 2015, alongside an unprecedented seven successive undefeated test series

Mike Hesson (2013-2015) and a record-equalling 13 undefeated tests at home (2012-2016) would need dusting every week. In reality those landmarks are buried in a figurative sock drawer.

The performances of Hesson’s side have been coupled with a culture of humility. Nothing appears taken for granted. No sense of entitlement has seeped in.

So how was he able to establish selflessness in a sport where individual statistics are the benchmarks?

“If you talk about wanting to be selfless and then bin players trying to do the right thing by the team when it doesn’t work, then you’re not really living it are you?”

he says. “As long as people are trying to perform their role, doing the best they can, they’ll get more opportunities. Generally we’re lucky to have guys who prioritise winning games for their country.

“Sometimes people force old-style statistics down others’ throats, but the only fact that matters is ‘what have you done to help win a game for your team?’.”

Everything bows to sabermetrics in Hesson’s world.

“We [he and fellow selector Gavin Larsen] start by asking how we want to play the game and organise players who fit that strategy.

“That’s not necessarily the top five run-scorers or wicket-takers.

You judge a player on how they perform a role.

“With T20, someone might have only scored 20-odd runs in three innings, but did it in six balls; or they might’ve bowled overs in powerplays that only went for six runs when the opposition needed 12 an over.

“When we pick someone, we’ve done our homework, so you give them a decent run at it rather than being a fad-of-the-month.

We want to see someone perform over a period of time, and under pressure.”

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ND smashes Central Northern Districts picked the perfect time to play the best game in their Twenty20 history. In the most lop-sided final in the Super Smash’s 13 years of existence, ND have put on a Twenty20 cricket masterclass, thrashing Central Districts by nine wickets. For so long the least successful side in the shortest format, ND found immediate riches under debut coach Gareth Hopkins, taking on a far more aggressive approach to claim their second Super Smash title, and first trophy in any format since 2014. - NZME

Kiwis under the hammer A host of New Zealand cricketers are set to go to auction, with 24 Kiwis making the cut for the final 578 names up for auction in the Indian Premier League draft. Kane Williamson is the only New Zealand in two marquee groups of eight who will go under the hammer first, however In-form Colin Munro, Martin Guptill and Colin de Grandhomme will also be among the first 40 names auctioned. Williamson set his reserve price at 150 lakh rupees ($NZ323,000) and will be auctioned alongside the likes of Ben Stokes, Mitchell Starc, Chris Gayle and Joe Root.

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U19s to play Afghanis Australia will face an undefeated England in the quarter-finals of the under-19s cricket World Cup. After Australia flogged Papua New Guinea by 311 runs to finish second in their group, England set up tomorrow’s date in Lincoln with a 282-run flogging of Canada to top their group. England rolled through Canada in 31.5 overs to take top spot in the group from Bangladesh, who will face India in a quarter-final. New Zealand will play Afghanistan in their quarterfinal after beating South Africa on Saturday by 71 runs, with the Proteas set to face Pakistan in the other knockout match.

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Scorchers run hot Ashton Agar again starred with the ball before Ashton Turner led the Perth Scorchers to yet another successful run chase at the WACA Ground with Shaun Marsh set to return ahead of the Big Bash League semi finals. In previous BBL campaigns where the Scorchers have won the title in 2014, 2015 and 2017, it has been their ability to defend a score of any size that was their trademark. However, this season they have taken the opposite approach of backing themselves to overhaul any sort of total and it’s working a treat. They again chased down 168 to win on Saturday night to beat the Hobart Hurricanes with four balls to spare and five wickets in hand. The win is a sixth straight at home for the Scorchers to improve them to a 7-2 record and all but lock in a home semi-final.

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In brief Black Sticks take third The Black Sticks have secured third place in the first leg of their Four Nations hockey tournament with a late 5-4 win over Japan. Down 4-3 with just five minutes remaining, the Kiwis managed to salvage a result through goals to Kane Russell and Hugo Inglis. They had also previously led 2-0 in the first half. - NZME

Adams stars for OKC Kiwi basketballer Steven Adams has notched a double-double in his Oklahoma City Thunder side’s 148124 NBA win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Adams racked up an impressive 25 points from centre as the Thunder cruised to victory, adding 10 rebounds and an assist to boot. Team-mates Paul George, Carmelo Anthony and Russell Westbrook also terrorised the Cavs, scoring more than 20 points each.

The win is Oklahoma’s fourth on the trot.

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Henare takes blame

Canterbury Country’s Toby Doyle hands over the Year 7 trophy to Mid Canterbury Cricket’s winning side.

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■ CRICKET

Youngsters in top form

By Linda CLarke

Linda.c@theguardian.co.nz

Mid Canterbury Cricket is celebrating a rare tournament win at a regional age-group event.

The Year 7 rep team was unbeaten over their four-day tournament at Mandeville, sweeping aside three Canterbury rep teams in the process.

Young batsman Lachie Jemmett set an impressive statistic – he scored 179 runs over four games and was not out or retired on each occasion, with a high score of 74.

He was fittingly the tournament’s top batsman, his total including 50 twos and 14 fours.

Team-mate Patrick Currie was two spots behind on the tournament batting leaderboard at third with 115 runs.

The Mid Canterbury side overall posted four wins from four games, taking a total of 35 wickets and losing 27, and scoring 621 runs. They were well clear on 62 points from runners-up Canterbury McMillan on 50 and Canterbury Astle on 49.

Coach Garfield Charles said it had been a long time since a Mid Canterbury team had won the tournament.

Bowlers Jack Middleton and Eddie Galbraith were also amongst the best in their business, at third and fourth on the bowling leaderboard with eight wickets apiece, Galbraith’s including a four-wicket bag against Canterbury Fleming.

“There were some outstanding performances but it was really a good solid team effort.”

He said it was exciting to think the bulk of the players would return to be part of the prestigious South Island primary tournament at Oamaru next year.

At Mandeville last week, Mid Canterbury thumped a Canterbury Country invitational side by 138 runs in their first game.

Mid Canterbury batted first making 182 in its 40 overs. Lachie Jemmett was retired on 74 while others to reach double figures were Hamish O’Reilly 37 and Tom Rosevear 12.

Jack Middleton (three wickets) and Toby Robinson (two) were the best bowlers.

Mid Canterbury batted first in its next game against Canterbury Astle. Jemmett, retired on 50, was the top run scorer, with support from Patrick Currie 36

and O’Reilly 10. Middleton (two wickets) and medium pace bowler Galbraith (two) took the share of wickets.

Mid Canterbury bowled first against Canterbury Fleming and had the metro side all out for 110, Galbraith’s 4/17 a highlight.

Mid Canterbury was 120/7 in reply, with Robinson 25, Middleton 28 and Currie 29 the main contributors. Jemmett was 13 not out.

The side went on to record a 57-run win over Canterbury McMillan on the last day. Robinson 47, Currie 48 and Jemmett 42 not out continued to star with the bat and helping Mid Canterbury to 184/9 in their overs.

McMillan was all out for 127, with Middleton and Robinson picking up two wickets each.

■ NETBALL

Extra time pressure chokes Ferns By angeLo risso The Silver Ferns have squandered a six-goal three-quartertime advantage to lose 64-57 in extra time to England in yesterday’s netball Quad Series opener in London.

Ahead 43-37 with a quarter remaining, the Ferns froze under pressure.

Where they had played solid netball in the game’s first and third quarters, they seized up with everything on the line,

turning over the ball six times.

They were eventually pegged back to finish regular time levelpeggng at 49-49 – and could’ve lost sooner, had Kadeen Corbin nailed a desperate last-second long bomb.

Instead, their malaise continued into the two seven-minute halves of extra time, turning over the ball another four times and falling meekly.

It’s the third time that the Ferns have lost to rivals England in the past 12 months and a ma-

jor wake-up call ahead of April’s Commonwealth Games tilt on the Gold Coast.

The Ferns midcourt – with Samantha Sinclair at centre, rather than Shannon Francois, and Kayla Cullen and Grace Kara on the wings – simply couldn’t shift the ball forward to Bailey Mes and Maria Folau.

And their English counterparts punished them ruthlessly, with centre Serena Guthrie terrorising the Silver Ferns across all three thirds.

She assisted seven goals, fed the ball to forwards Corbin and Helen Housby 19 times and racked up three interceptions and four turnovers.

Folau netted a precise 35 from 38, aided by 22 goals from Mes – yet coach Janine Southby never called upon the guile of reserve Te Paea Selby-Rickit.

The match was part of a double-header in London, with the Australian Diamonds defeating South Africa 54-50 earlier on Sunday.

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Breakers boss Paul Henare has lamented his decision to withdraw all three centres in the latter stages of his side’s 81-71 Australian NBL loss to Cairns. In response to Aaron Fearne’s decision to remove his big men, Henare followed suit, plonking Alex Pledger, Rob Loe and Rakeem Christmas on the bench. They ultimately lost the final quarter 27-14, and the match – wasting the chance to move into the ANBL top three with seven games remaining.

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Big win for McCormick Kiwi rider Hayden McCormick has won the 2018 New Zealand Cycle Classic in the Wairarapa. It is the first major tour he has won since he was 19 years old. Results of the tour came right down to the wire. On Saturday it looked likely Australia’s Robert Stannard would win as he finished the final stage with the yellow jersey.

The Australia-based rider had dethroned Kiwi Nick Reddish after the hilly 150km fourth stage of the race, where he finished second.

McCormick sat behind Stannard in the overall standings on Saturday, but made a comeback on Sunday for the win.

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Greipel takes final stage German sprint ace Andre Greipel has won his 18th Tour Down Under stage, timing his run perfectly in the Adelaide street race. Greipel caught Australian Caleb Ewan on the line, beating him by less than half a bike length yesterday to snatch the sixth and last stage.

South African Daryl Impey stayed out of trouble to win the Tour title for the first time.

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Brocas claims title Veteran speedway racer Kerry Brocas has stunned Michael Pickens to win the New Zealand Sprint Car title at Vodafone Speedway Western Springs on Saturday night. The 55-year-old Aucklander was considered an unlikely winner leading into the event but produced some impressive drives in the heats to qual-ify on the front row alongside New Zealand’s most renowned racer Pickens. Brocas took his chance as the frontrunners hit lapped traffic and won comfortably in what was a popular victory.

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In brief City maintain lead Sergio Aguero has inspired runaway leader Manchester City to a 3-1 home victory over Newcastle.

Aguero has broken record after record in his seven years at City and once again underlined his importance to Pep Guardiola’s team by firing a hat-trick against Newcastle, a team he scored five against in 2015. “We’re really happy with the victory,” said Aguero after registering his 11th treble for the club and his second of the season.

“It’s a long season though and we’ve not won anything yet. We need to keep going and pushing on to the next game.”

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Man U sneak home Second-placed Manchester United squeezed past Burnley 1-0 with a 54th-minute goal from Anthony Martial, but Jose Mourinho’s side remained 12 points adrift of their cross-town rivals. After the match, Mourinho said he expected United’s proposed big-money deal for Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez to go through soon. “I expect soon or never,” he said. London rivals Chelsea and Arsenal warmed up for their midweek League Cup showdown by turning on the goal power. Chelsea demolished Brighton 4-0, Arsenal thrashed Crystal Palace 4-1 to remain in sixth place on 42 points.

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Closing day on the Tinwald fairways Mark Banks keeps his eye on the ball as he hits off the tee at the Tinwald Golf Club on Saturday. It was the club’s summer closing day and around 70 men and women were taking part in a combined stableford competition. The men’s competition was won by Wayne Ross and Jason Mactier while the mixed competition was taken out by Keith Bonnington and Jenny Harrex. Club captain Bruce Collins said it was a fitting, if hot, end to the summer competition. Despite the scorching temperatures, the “winter” starts next Saturday with a four-ball best-ball contest. He said the course had held up well given recent weather extremes.

■ TENNIS

World No.2 Caroline Wozniacki has stormed into the quarter-finals at the Australian Open with a 6-3 6-0 demolition job on Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova.

Still searching for a maiden grand slam title after more than a decade on tour, the second seed from Denmark needed only 63 minutes to end the challenge of No.19 seed Rybarikova.

Wozniacki’s opponent in the last eight will by Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro, who came from a set and two breaks against No.32 seed Anett Kontaveit from Estonia to win 4-6 6-4 8-6 yesterday.

The Spanish veteran won six straight games from 4-1 down in the second set before Kontaveit recovered her composure to turn the deciding set into a dogfight.

“She started very good,” said Suarez Navarro of her opponent.

“I always have to fight until the end.

“It was a really good match and I’m very happy to be in the next round.

“I try to be focused, try to play my game and that’s it, to run, run, run all the time.”

Before this tournament, Kontaveit had won only six of 17 singles matches at grand slam level, including first-round depar-

Kiwi golfer Ryan Fox has slipped back to a tie for 21st after the third round of the European Tour’s Abu Dhabi Championship. Sitting in equal 11th place at the start of the day’s play, Fox could only manage a third-round even par 72, falling 10 places. He remains eight-under overall. However the distance to leaders Thomas Pieters and Ross Fisher is all but unsurmountable, with the pair currently at 17-under overall.

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Motor doping tests

Wozniacki marches on

By John Salvado

Fox, Lee slip back

tures at the 2016 and 2017 Australian Open.

Meanwhile big-serving Croat Marin Cilic is back in the Australian Open quarterfinals with a come-from-behind, four-set win over Spanish 10th seed Pablo Carreno Busta. The sixth-seeded former US Open champion, who hasn’t returned to the final eight at Melbourne Park since his semi-final run in 2010, lent on his monster serving and forehand to battle to a 6-7 (27) 6-3 7-6 (7-0) 7-6 (7-3) victory.

The 30-year-old is destined to meet world No.1 Rafael Nadal, presuming the 16-time grand slam champion beat diminutive 24th-seeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman later last night.

Dark horse Dominic Thiem is hungry for a deep run at Melbourne Park after cruising into the second week of the Australian Open with a straight-sets win over Adrian Mannarino.

The Austrian fifth seed showed no ill effects of his second-round, five-set scare against American qualifier Denis Kudla, backing up on Saturday with a 6-4 6-2 7-5 victory in two hours and eight minutes.

One player Thiem won’t have to contend with in Melbourne is German whiz Alexander Zverev after the fourth seed suffered a third-round five-set defeat for the second year running.

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Cycling’s world governing body the UCI is two months away from announcing a raft of tests to combat so-called motor doping. New UCI president David Lappartient is confident the new measures will end the conjecture about how big a problem technological fraud is in the sport. While there have been isolated cases of riders being caught with motors in their bikes, no-one is quite sure about how prevalent it is – or whether top riders are guilty. But there has been no end of finger pointing, with a new book released in France even bringing disgraced star Lance Armstrong into the issue.

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Federer stymies Agassi

Caroline Wozniacki is right on target.

Tennis great Andre Agassi isn’t ruling out Roger Federer playing until he’s 40 as the Swiss marvel enters the second week of a grand slam for an incredible 60th time.

Runner-up to Federer aged 35 at the 2005 US Open, Agassi was done done a year later and, more than a decade on, remains in awe of the 19-time major winner’s extraordinary longevity. Federer takes on Hungarian Marton Fucsovics today for a 14th Australian Open quarterfinal berth in the past 15 years as he strives to defend his crown at almost 36 and a half. “Listen, I’m out of the business of predicting him any more because I’ve been wrong so many times,” Agassi said.

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Outsider grabs Group One glory A southern longshot and his youthful accomplice combined at Trentham for their first Group One successes at the expense of a hot field of sprinters.

The Michael and Matthew Pitman-trained Enzo’s Lad returned odds of 73-1 when he was victorious under apprentice Sam Weath-

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“I was very happy to be on him,” he said.

“He won the Pegasus in style and I knew if we had some luck he could do it. We got all the splits when we needed to so I’m over the moon.

“Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be a jockey and to win a

erley in the JR & N Berkett Telegraph (1200m) on Saturday.

It was the second year in a row a South Island visitor had posted an upset Telegraph win following Signify’s 45-1 success 12 months ago.

While punters were floored by Saturday’s upset, Weatherley didn’t share their shock.

Group One race is just great.”

The Riccarton-based Enzo’s Lad dropped into a good spot behind the leaders and once into the clear he finished too well.

Kawi finished powerfully from the back for second with the frontrunner Ferrando holding third from Passing Shot.

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Invercargill harness Today at Ascot Park Raceway

Invercargill Harness Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 22 Jan 2018 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.19pm YOUR 1ST CHOICE MCMILLANS PROTEIN PLUS MBL PACE $10,000, mob. pace, 2200m 1 14509 El Dinero (1) fr............................C Ferguson 2 07080 Comic Book Hero (2) fr ..................H Hunter 3 00509 Pay Master (3) fr ........................R McIlwrick 4 06000 Franco Nixon (4) fr ..........................R Swain 5 00696 Mandolin (5) fr ..........................C Faithful (J) 6 6x479 Tour Director (6) fr ................... N Williamson 7 87777 Alexy (7) fr .................................D O’Connell 8 85050 Senorita Margarita (8) fr ................... D Dunn 9 05007 Happy Styx (21) fr ......................... A Armour 10 52682 Ellnbac (22) fr..............................B McLellan 2 12.54pm TOPLINE MUSCLE FROM HANLEYS FORMULA MOBILE PACE $8000, up to mr47, 2200m 1 45594 Honour The Bet (1) fr ...........S Tomlinson (J) 2 54976 Handsome Mac (2) fr .....................H Hunter 3 84809 Ripsnorter (3) fr........................R Rogers (J) 4 97900 Fleur Galleon (4) fr ...............M Anderson (J) 5 885 Queen Of The Nite (5) fr ...............B Orange 6 69379 Lady’s Lass (6) fr...................... T Robertson

7 00x0 Jilaire’s Mac (7) fr ...........................K Larsen 8 0x60 Son Of Lana (8) fr ......................... B Barclay 9 09x5 Cee Joy (21) fr ..........................M Hurrell (J) 10 x0608 Blue Chip Lady (22) fr ...................... D Dunn 11 005 Archman (23) fr ..........................R McIlwrick 12 05955 Carlo Gambino (U1) fr.................B McLellan 3 1.29 MITAVITE EQUINE FEEDS SUPPORTING HARNESS TROT $8000, non-winners 3yo+ trot, 2700m 1 0 Robbie Royale (1) fr ..................... B Norman 2 424 Springbank Ella (2) fr ................ C Purvis (J) 3 98006 Miss Bamboocha (3) fr ..................... A Milne 4 Ardee Trouble (4) fr .......................B Orange 5 62620 Make My Day (5) fr........................ B Barclay 6 00x00 Pegasus Sunrise (U1) fr .......... N Williamson 7 0780P Spur Me On Gently (U2) fr ....... T Robertson 8 50000 Thunder Buddy (U3) fr ................. B Wallace 9 P700 Bonny Reece (U4) fr .................E Barron (J) 10 03362 Nathan D (U5) fr............................ A Armour 4 2.04 ULTRAMOX WORMERS AT FARMLANDS MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ mr47 to mr52 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 Complete Package (1) fr ......M Anderson (J) 2 4994 The Bull Pen (2) fr ................... M Williamson

3 06830 Captain Thunderbolt (3) fr ....... N Williamson 4 Thisexcusebetterbeit (4) fr ............... D Dunn 5 Pocket Call (5) fr............................B Orange 6 08662 Shindal (6) fr .............................M Hurrell (J) 7 3523 Tact Denzel (7) fr .............................R Swain 8 09 G T Reactor (8) fr ............................B Morris 9 503 Jaccka Oslo (21) fr ........................ B Barclay 10 62437 Doc Seelster (22) fr .....................D Reardon 11 77303 James Butt (23) fr ..........................K Larsen 5 2.39 NRM EQUINE FEEDS YOUR BREEDING FEEDS MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r49 to r54, 2200m 1 09704 A Smart Excuse (1) fr ...............E Barron (J) 2 95681 Aveross Ferrari (2) fr .................M Hurrell (J) 3 19804 Two Ply (3) fr ...............................B McLellan 4 71695 Lorretta Franco (4) fr ................B Williamson 5 44865 Hurricane Banner (5) fr ........S Tomlinson (J) 6 10000 Sheezus (6) fr ......................... M Williamson 7 68412 Rozzano (7) fr ............................C Ferguson 8 1727x Ideal Breeze (8) fr .............................A Beck 9 01400 The Maroon Marauder (21) fr.. N Williamson 10 10695 The Red Robber (22) fr .................... D Dunn 11 01004 Karmic Way (23) fr ........................B Orange 12 78x98 Honey Cullen (24) fr .......................K Larsen

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6 3.14 STRATEGY T WORMERS JNR DRIVERS MBL PACE $10,000, with cond. mob. pace jun.d, 2200m 1 37635 Annie Fitz (1) fr ......................... C Purvis (J) 2 54514 Chinook Winds (2) fr .............. J Morrison (J) 3 18557 Misty Memory (3) fr ..................C Faithful (J) 4 10588 Ever Ready (4) fr .......................E Barron (J) 5 50059 Pay Me Jimmy (5) fr .............. J Campbell (J) 6 02214 Miss Waikiwi (6) fr ............... K McNaught (J) 7 601 John Coltrane (7) fr ..............M Anderson (J) 8 52422 Cast A Shadow (8) fr..................... K Butt (J) 9 63238 Hot Off The Press (21) fr ............B Munro (J) 10 32514 The Go To Man (22) fr .............. J Kennett (J) 11 9x427 Varenna (23) fr .....................S Tomlinson (J) 12 38232 Canardly Remember (24) fr ......M Hurrell (J) 13 73417 Chilli Franco (25) fr.................... M Purvis (J) 7 3.49 FOR GREAT COATS USE LIVAMOL MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r55 to r60 mob. pace, 2200m 1 86029 Erin Jaccka (1) fr ........................... B Barclay 2 36723 Jabali (2) fr ................................M Hurrell (J) 3 131 Ana Malak (3) fr ............................B Orange 4 98444 Mr Woodlea (4) fr .................... M Williamson 5 41666 Southbound Train (5) fr ...................R Swain 6 69138 Ansett Flight (6) fr .......................... P Hunter

7 03050 Roxy Dale (7) fr ..........................C Ferguson 8 60361 Leah Mac (8) fr................................. D Dunn 9 10296 First Son (21) fr ....................S Tomlinson (J) 10 02360 Jayedgar (22) fr ....................... N Williamson 11 19800 Cullens Avenue (23) fr .................. M Shirley 8 4.27 MCMILLAN EQUINE FEEDS SUPPORTS SOUTHLAND RACING $10,000, r42 to r48 mob. pace, 2200m 1 62443 Nightmarch (1) fr ................. K McNaught (J) 2 68402 Passion Flower (2) fr ................B Williamson 3 03000 Just Wish (3) fr .....................S Tomlinson (J) 4 82020 Wayward Roc (4) fr .......................... D Dunn 5 88954 Northview Betta (5) fr ......................R Swain 6 04308 American Magic (6) fr.............. N Williamson 7 79796 Tiziano (7) fr ...................................H Hunter 8 24347 No More Change (8) fr ...............C Ferguson 9 0x079 My Georgie Boy (21) fr ................... P Hunter 10 47073 Silver Dale (22) fr .................... M Williamson 11 33257 Grace Burns (23) fr .......................B Orange 12 x8030 Dachy (24) fr .......................... J Morrison (J) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

Today at Woodville Raceway

Woodville Pahiatua RC Venue: Woodville Meeting Date: 22 Jan 2018 Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.37pm (NZT) MURRAY CONTRACTORS MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN, 1100m 1 33 Rocco Bello b (4) 58.5 ................ D Johnson 2 06369 Gates To Rio (1) 58.5 ......................J Riddell 3 42x22 Malo Bik 57 .................................. Scratched 4 x9323 Miss Oahu (7) 56.5 .......................M Tanaka 5 5246x Garment (9) 56.5......................... C Johnson 6 24x Miss Contessa (2) 56.5 ...................D Turner 7 4. Belle Tem (6) 56.5 .......................... J Parkes 8 475 Live In Hope (10) 56.5....................... T Allan 9 888x6 Mighty Mouse (5) 56.5 .......... H Andrew (a2) 10 2 Surveillance (8) 55 11 Dalla Mosa h (3) 55.........................S Collett 2 1.12pm MCI ASSOCIATES MAIDEN $10,000, 1200m 1 33 Rocco Bello b (9) 58.5 2 03x40 Molizlad (5) 58.5 3 Sligo (4) 58.5...................................R Myers 4 2868x Drum Rise (6) 58.5.......................... A Jones 5 42x22 Malo Bik 57 .................................. Scratched 6 6 All The Talk (7) 57 ................. H Andrew (a2) 7 4. Belle Tem (1) 56.5 8 x300x Tavijazz (11) 56.5 ........................ C Johnson 9 0 Tudor Angel 56.5 .......................... Scratched 10 2 Surveillance (2) 55 ...................... D Johnson 11 8x683 Deuce Coupe (3) 55 12 3 Silhouette Beauty (10) 55 ...............S Collett 13 7 Darsharp Princess (8) 55 ............... J Parkes 14 Here We Go 55 ............................ Scratched 15 06369 Gates To Rio 58.5 ........................ Scratched Emergency: Gates To Rio 3 1.47 THE TARARUA CLUB MAIDEN $10,000, 1400m

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1 x7252 Field Of Fire b (6) 58.5 ....................S Collett 2 x7352 Sardeen (2) 58.5 .............................R Myers 3 3 One More Round (12) 58.5 .............J Riddell 4 3754x Staywithme (1) 58.5 .......................... T Allan 5 0x745 Tiny Tot (3) 58.5 ................... S MacNab (a2) 6 5640x Deep Blue (4) 58.5 ................ H Andrew (a2) 7 42988 Turfshaker (15) 58.5 ......................M Tanaka 8 If Ya Don’t Mind (14) 58.5 ................D Turner 9 7x607 Rock Rulz (5) 58.5 .......................... A Jones 10 92904 Dancing Auriole (7) 56.5 .....................C Dell 11 3995x Foxy Porotene (16) 56.5................. J Parkes 12 Belle Gosse (8) 56.5 ................... D Johnson 13 x6x08 Sidart (13) 56.5 .................... T Johnson (a2) 14 Stephanie St Clair (9) 56.5............D Bradley 15 0x900 Ravenhill (11) 56.5 16 09x5. Red Red Robin (10) 56.5 Emergencies: Ravenhill, Red Red Robin 4 2.22 PRENTERS READY MIX CONCRETE $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 33025 Woodbine Ladd d (4) 59.5.... T Johnson (a2) 2 4221x Valentia 59 ................................... Scratched 3 x4x30 Turncoat (7) 58.5 ............................ J Parkes 4 646x0 Malibu Miss d (8) 57.5 .....................J Riddell 5 66883 Brother One m (5) 57.5 .........C Waddell (a4) 6 8x020 Deedee Panache d (2) 57 ...............A Collett 7 1. Tipping Point d (12) 57 ....................R Myers 8 8x790 Wafer (11) 57 ..................................S Collett 9 05236 Perfect Shock (13) 57......................D Turner 10 51446 Pincanto (3) 56.5......................... C Johnson 11 490x5 Rosetta td (15) 56.5 ................... A Shin (a4) 12 1377x Gifted dm (17) 56 ................................C Dell 13 70x93 Judith Kate (6) 55.5............... H Andrew (a2) 14 75000 Veuve Clicquot m (10) 54 ................ A Jones 15 x3607 Kate The Great d (14) 54.5 ...........M Tanaka

16 100x7 Picnic Bay (16) 54.5 17 575x5 The Duke Of Jazz m (1) 56 18 4038x Listowel d (9) 54 Emergencies: Kate The Great, Picnic Bay, The Duke Of Jazz, Listowel 5 2.57pm GOLDEN BAY CEMENT MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN 3YO, 1400m 1 3 Lincoln Star (11) 57.5......................A Collett 2 77x30 Last Man Standing (15) 57.5 3 2x66x Tuigold (8) 57.5 ...............................S Collett 4 58. Collinstreet (13) 57.5.......................J Riddell 5 90 He’s Ric (1) 57.5 .................. T Johnson (a2) 6 Lincoln Dreamer (2) 57.5 ..............M Tanaka 7 7334 Aridity (7) 55.5............................. C Johnson 8 3x30. Viva Lilli (12) 55.5........................... J Parkes 9 746 Rough ‘N’ Tumble (5) 55.5 ..... H Andrew (a2) 10 58 Balanto h (10) 55.5 .........................D Turner 11 Cead Mile Failte (14) 55.5 ...............R Myers 12 8 Francesca Kate (9) 55.5...... C O’Beirne (a3) 13 Phyllthepower (6) 55.5 ................ D Johnson 14 Telsette (4) 55.5 ..................................C Dell 15 8x683 Deuce Coupe (3) 55.5 16 8 Regal Rock 55.5 .......................... Scratched Emergencies: Deuce Coupe, Regal Rock 6 3.32 NEW CENTRAL MOTOR INN MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN, 1600m 1 32432 Handyman (13) 58.5 .............C Waddell (a4) 2 705x3 Mauna Kea (9) 58.5 ........................D Turner 3 x87x9 Soiree (12) 58.5 ..............................J Riddell 4 P7. Red Cloud (8) 57 ..................... J Parkes 5 8x573 Princess Spice (4) 56.5 ...................R Myers 6 59346 Makamojito (6) 56.5 ........................S Collett 7 09x5. Red Red Robin (5) 56.5 ........ H Andrew (a2) 8 06x86 Word Savvy (11) 56.5 .......... T Johnson (a2)

9 7334 Aridity 55 ...................................... Scratched 10 3 Fictitious (7) 55 .............................M Tanaka 11 4. Solsavon (3) 55 ........................... C Johnson 12 6x955 Dare To Rock (2) 55 ........................ A Jones 13 557 Makeitrain (1) 55 .............................A Collett 14 8507. Walk With Kings (10) 55 .............. D Johnson 7 4.07pm ALPHA DOMUS MAIDEN $10,000, 1600m 1 658 Heart Of Fame (2) 58.5 ............... C Johnson 2 500x5 Toby’s Choice (14) 58.5 ....... S MacNab (a2) 3 0x66 Time Bearer (9) 58.5 .....................M Tanaka 4 89x98 Acclaim (3) 58.5 ..............................D Turner 5 Skyphyta (1) 57 .............................. J Parkes 6 7x83x Entreat (10) 56.5 ...................C Waddell (a4) 7 0x5 Aperol (11) 56.5 ..............................S Collett 8 x70x7 English Lady (13) 56.5 ......... T Johnson (a2) 9 8 Fairsucofthesav (12) 56.5 ..... H Andrew (a2) 10 822 Lisbeth b (8) 55 ............................... A Jones 11 03 Flourishing (7) 55 ........................ D Johnson 12 654 Lincoln Melody (5) 55......................A Collett 13 37 Missy Miu Miu (6) 55 .......................R Myers 14 8 Regal Rock (4) 55 .........................D Bradley 8 4.42 BAMBRY’S WATER TREADMILL WOODVILLE CUP $20,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2100m 1 61926 Stephenstihls (8) 59 ........................S Collett 2 22214 Handfull th (1) 58 ............................D Turner 3 x0635 China Star td (2) 57.5......................A Collett 4 x0095 Captain Lincoln m (5) 57.5 ..............J Riddell 5 72152 Wide Awake b (4) 57 ................... D Johnson 6 33565 Call Me Irish m (6) 56.5......... H Andrew (a2) 7 52316 Keilib (7) 56.5 .............................. C Johnson 8 x0941 Shared Secrets d (9) 56 ................M Tanaka 9 4x031 Missy Moo (11) 55.5 ...................... J Parkes 10 25477 Classic Touch t (3) 54.5................... A Jones 11 84x72 Razors Edge b (12) 54.5 ...... S MacNab (a2)

12 38246 Brakbar (10) 54 .................... T Johnson (a2)

9 5.17 TUI BACKING A WINNER SINCE 1889 MAIDEN

$10,000, MAIDEN, 2100m 1 7x222 Cullen Bohannon b (11) 58.5 ..........A Collett 2 34985 Lucquide (4) 58.5 ................................C Dell 3 95446 Heza Duke (1) 58.5 .............. S MacNab (a2) 4 0985 Post Graduate (5) 58.5..........C Waddell (a4) 5 09 Peewee (8) 58.5 ..............................D Turner 6 0 Rainbowone (6) 58.5 ......................... T Allan 7 56325 Hard But Fair (10) 56.5 ...................R Myers 8 0x732 Stunning b (7) 56.5 .......................M Tanaka 9 8x924 La Phyta b (9) 56.5......................... J Parkes 10 27733 Owned (2) 56.5 ...............................S Collett 11 5940. Shezacraftsman (3) 56.5...............D Bradley 12 7x000 Teraseeda (13) 56.5 ............. T Johnson (a2) 13 8676 Go Roxy (12) 55 .................... H Andrew (a2) Blinkers on: Gates To Rio, Live In Hope, Mighty Mouse (R1), Dancing Auriole (R3), Collinstreet, Aridity (R5), Red Cloud (R6), Lincoln Melody (R7), Brakbar (R8), Shezacraftsman (R9) Blinkers off: Drum Rise (R2), Staywithme (R3), Turncoat (R4), Tuigold (R5), Aperol, Missy Miu Miu (R7), Owned (R9) Winkers on: Tavijazz (R2), Field Of Fire (R3), Turncoat (R4), La Phyta (R9) Winkers off: Gates To Rio (R1), Deep Blue, Dancing Auriole (R3), Red Cloud (R6) SELECTIONS Race 1: Miss Contessa, Rocco Bello, Surveillance, Belle Tem Race 2: Surveillance, Belle Tem, Silhouette Beauty, Rocco Bello Race 3: Field Of Fire, One More Round, Tiny Tot, Turfshaker Race 4: Perfect Shock, Deedee Panache, Turncoat, Malibu Miss Race 5: Rough ‘N’ Tumble, Lincoln Star, Viva Lilli, Lincoln Dreamer Race 6: Solsavon, Handyman, Fictitious, Princess Spice Race 7: Lisbeth, Flourishing, Lincoln Melody, Missy Miu Miu Race 8: Handfull, Stephenstihls, Shared Secrets, China Star Race 9: Owned, Cullen Bohannon, Stunning, Shezacraftsman

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

Palmerston North Greyhound Racing Club (2014) Incor- 7 21855 Asserting Power 21.98 .....................S Stone porated Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 22 Jan 8 43245 Eye Kno 21.78 H & ........................... Woods 2018 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 9 15265 Bigtime Bev 21.91 ..............................L Cole and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 10 48443 Doosh 21.60..............................J McInerney 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 4 1.38 AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES C2, 375m 1 12.46pm (NZT) FORMPRO RATINGS FREE EVERY 1 25325 Mitsuta 21.83 ....................................D Edlin MONDAY C0 C0, 375m 2 55167 Lil Diva 21.87 ............................J McInerney 1 44578 Smiling Sid nwtd ..............................S Stone 3 27164 Bigtime Moe Moe 21.99 G & .. S Fredrickson 2 6 Bigtime Clever nwtd ...........................L Cole 4 62157 Cawbourne Lick 21.86 J & ..................D Bell 3 68x1 Ace Star nwtd.............................B Goldsack 5 88654 Hotdog Shannon 21.94 ...................P Morris 4 24821 Bigtime Kendall nwtd..........................L Cole 6 12411 Bigtime Sienna 21.51 .........................L Cole 5 8244 Little Tornado nwtd ...........................R Waite 7 1857F Cawbourne Steele 22.10 J & ..............D Bell 6 52567 Reedy Set Go nwtd ...................J McInerney 8 62843 It’s The Lovely 21.54 ................ K Gommans 7 5 Swift Liberty nwtd.............................R Waite 9 51757 Opehu Express nwtd........................R Waite 8 33758 Classy Baxter nwtd ...................J McInerney 10 84528 Cawbourne Looks 21.46 J & ...............D Bell 9 85367 Hardaway Chief nwtd ................J McInerney 5 1.56pm USE PETRAVELLER.COM.AU C4/5, 375m 10 27872 Bigtime Kaea nwtd .............................L Cole 1 46271 Bigtime Blackie 21.07 ........................L Cole 2 1.03pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS C2 C2, 375m 2 41112 Daisy Lara 21.49 ................................L Cole 1 65185 Naharis 22.12....................................D Edlin 3 32363 Hypocritical 21.46 ........................M Roberts 2 15854 Opawa Harry nwtd ............................M Flipp 4 72278 NippaOfSambucca nwtd ...........J McInerney 3 84341 Stole Me Car 21.47 .................. K Gommans 5 55125 Lover 21.56 .................................A Turnwald 4 21262 El Hefe 21.69 G & .................. S Fredrickson 6 32828 Bear Inda Square 21.31 .....................L Cole 5 16353 Bad Movies nwtd..............................S Stone 7 12256 Allegro Gun 21.10 ..............................L Cole 6 74116 Ndora 21.90 ......................................D Edlin 8 51463 Bigtime Jane 21.44 ............................L Cole 7 13617 Bacon My Heart nwtd ........................L Cole 9 34617 Americano 21.54 G &............. S Fredrickson 8 66218 Cawbourne Brandy 21.62 J & .............D Bell 10 84868 Cosmic Odette nwtd..................J McInerney 9 34384 Cawbourne Ridge 22.16 J & ...............D Bell 6 2.13pm IONLYFLYFIRSTCLASS.COM C4 C4, 375m 10 77663 Don’t Muzzle Me 21.50 ..............B Goldsack 1 11574 Bigtime Sugar 21.38 ..........................L Cole 3 1.21pm J P PRINT, PETONE C3 C3, 375m 2 21276 Oity Allen nwtd .............................M Roberts 1 11673 Wait For Us nwtd.........................A Turnwald 3 x11F1 Bigtime Narelle 21.80.........................L Cole 2 51665 Cawbourne Symsy 21.68 J &..............D Bell 4 51118 Bigtime Ottey 21.59 ...........................L Cole 3 11132 Wetchester 21.88 ................................ L Bell 5 12175 Bigtime George 21.62 ........................L Cole 4 34141 Allegro Beaty 21.52............................L Cole 6 13445 Bigtime Basher 21.41.........................L Cole 5 131F7 Tazia nwtd .................................... D Denbee 7 27412 Rapper Tilly 22.00 ...............................S Kite 6 73725 Asteria 21.94 G R & ........................ S Voyce 8 34273 Frisky Gambler 21.71 ..................A Turnwald

9 34617 Americano 21.54 G &............. S Fredrickson 10 17656 Breeze Attack 21.66 .........................S Lozell 7 2.31pm TAB FIXED ODDS C0 C0, 457m 1 F1 Bigtime Craig nwtd .............................L Cole 2 3 Bigtime Barcia nwtd ...........................L Cole 3 55221 Bigtime Clyde nwtd ............................L Cole 4 78232 Bigtime Zoe nwtd ...............................L Cole 5 Bigtime Zack nwtd ..............................L Cole 6 2 Bigtime Joshy nwtd ............................L Cole 7 45754 Bigtime Panther nwtd .........................L Cole 8 5 Bigtime Jacob nwtd ............................L Cole 9 64474 Bigtime Polly nwtd ..............................L Cole 10 66385 Bigtime Nibbles nwtd..........................L Cole 8 2.48pm PAUL CLARIDGE ELECTRICAL C1, 457m 1 11121 Bigtime Mike 26.65 ............................L Cole 2 57643 Cawbourne Web nwtd J &...................D Bell 3 6x677 Cawbourne Cool nwtd J & ..................D Bell 4 32221 Pat Patterson nwtd ............................M Flipp 5 41133 Millie Prince 26.46..............................L Cole 6 23134 Bigtime Logan nwtd ...........................L Cole 7 25243 Idol Tom nwtd ....................................M Flipp 8 83668 Bigtime Owen nwtd G & ......... S Fredrickson 9 35678 Cawbourne Serina nwtd............... T Downey 10 57578 Bonus Lotto 26.72 ...........................L Doody 9 3.06pm OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY C1, 457m 1 66677 Cawbourne Muzza 26.33 J & ..............D Bell 2 86547 Bigtime Jorja nwtd..............................L Cole 3 54463 Bark Rosanowski nwtd.......................L Cole 4 78731 Bigtime Coffee 25.89 G & ...... S Fredrickson 5 67756 Bigtime Jack 26.46 .......................M Goodier 6 587x4 Opawa Judy nwtd..............................M Flipp 7 71546 Idol Alan nwtd ...................................M Flipp 8 72111 Bigtime Serena 26.06 ........................L Cole 9 47783 Idol Patches 26.51 ............................M Flipp 10 57877 Bigtime Wild nwtd...............................L Cole

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3.23 ADRIAN CLARK BLOODSTOCK CONSULTANT C2 C2, 457m 1 44122 Bigtime Lily 26.02...............................L Cole 2 47647 Jinja Loren 26.42 G R &.................. S Voyce 3 35385 Bigtime Welldone 26.01 .....................L Cole 4 56647 Bigtime Brucie nwtd ...........................L Cole 5 23122 Tyson’s Quest nwtd .........................B Marsh 6 32363 Bigtime Forest nwtd ...........................L Cole 7 62662 Bigtime Monty 26.34 ..........................L Cole 8 31112 Bigtime Bucko 26.43 ..........................L Cole 11 3.41pm STEVE THE AUCTIONEER DAVIS C2/3 C2/3, 457m 1 85364 Bigtime Power 26.32 G & ....... S Fredrickson 2 17432 Bigtime Redo 26.20 G & ........ S Fredrickson 3 55825 Bigtime Caleb 26.04...........................L Cole 4 51263 Cawbourne Toddy 26.03 ...................M Flipp 5 65521 Bigtime Michelle 25.80 .......................L Cole 6 41467 Bigtime Lady 26.29 ............................L Cole 7 77614 Bigtime Liam 26.10 ............................L Cole 8 15513 Bigtime JayJay 26.05 .........................L Cole Emergencies: 9 88384 Bigtime Fred 26.04 .............................L Cole 10 x2425 Cawbourne Foxy nwtd ....................P Morris 12 3.58pm M&M MASTER BUTCHERS C4/5, 457m 1 55114 Bigtime Levi 25.85..............................L Cole 2 44173 Bigtime Flyer 26.04 ............................L Cole 3 15542 Spare Some Time 25.95 ....................L Cole 4 71837 Bigtime Rise 26.12 .............................L Cole 5 71278 Bigtime Jason 26.00 ..........................L Cole 6 41671 Extrapolate 26.36 ...............................L Cole 7 32461 Bigtime Donny 25.78..........................L Cole 8 12366 Bigtime Phantom 26.12......................L Cole 9 28782 Tranquil Rue 25.97 ......................A Turnwald 10 68684 Bigtime Mia 26.09 ..............................L Cole 13 4.16pm BROOKS TIMING C1 C1, 375m

1 56783 Avedon Film nwtd..............................M Flipp 2 31322 Lucha nwtd........................................D Edlin 3 57452 Bigtime Forecast 21.82 H & .............. Woods 4 43813 Uno Eleven nwtd ................................ N Udy 5 81487 Bigtime Pickit 22.33 ...........................L Cole 6 74861 Bigtime Kera 21.97.............................L Cole 7 63513 Little Scamp 21.86 ....................... D Denbee 8 78326 Bigtime Buster nwtd G & ........ S Fredrickson Emergencies: 9 67367 Homebush Flutey nwtd .............J McInerney 10 68456 Cawbourne Sandy 21.91 J & ..............D Bell 14 4.34pm PERSONAL PROTECTIVE C1, 375m 1 58x54 Cawbourne Owen 21.69 J & ...............D Bell 2 63614 Accra nwtd ................................ K B Benson 3 68622 Bark My Words nwtd ..................... M Gowan 4 47122 Bigtime Kylie nwtd ..............................L Cole 5 38135 Azandei nwtd ....................................D Edlin 6 76367 Hungry Machine nwtd .....................L Doody 7 33637 Ear’s Boris 21.40 ...............................M Flipp 8 25525 Opawa Lyon nwtd............................... N Udy 9 86854 Minder 21.99 .............................J McInerney 10 58465 Worboys 21.69 G R & ..................... S Voyce 15 4.51 TAB SUPPORTS GREYHOUNDS C1, 375m 1 72373 Bigtime Emma nwtd ...........................L Cole 2 87668 Lissadell Marcus nwtd................... D Donlon 3 36527 Homebush Manu nwtd ..............J McInerney 4 84436 Uno Brent nwtd .................................. N Udy 5 87346 Barn Door Billy nwtd ................ K Gommans 6 46657 Cawbourne Johno nwtd J & ................D Bell 7 87275 Cawbourne Mack 21.88 ..................L Doody 8 66762 Fear The Beard 21.90 .......................M Flipp 9 74388 Nippa Joy nwtd..........................J McInerney 10 46575 Roketto nwtd .....................................D Edlin LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Monday, January 22, 2018

■ GORE

TRAVEL

Filly proves toughness As a breeder, Wellfield Lodge’s Bill Gleeson appreciates the value of black type on the pedigree page and he doesn’t mind travelling to find it.

For the second time in two years, he has enjoyed success in the Listed Liquorland Gore Guineas (1335m) after Exceed And Excel’s daughter Excelleration kicked off her southern sojourn in fine style on Saturday.

In 2016, Gleeson won the event with Wafer, a filly by his resident stallion Alamosa who also sired the Thorndon Mile (1600m) winner Stolen Dance, and he again celebrated as a co-breeder and part-owner with Peter Gillespie and Scott Plant of the Nigel Tileytrained Excelleration.

“She’s only going to get better and it was a really nice win,” he said.

“She’s quite tough and a filly with a bit of attitude about her.”

Excelleration has now won three of her seven starts, but she will transfer to the Riccarton stable of Shane Kennedy and Anna Furlong for the remainder of her southern stay.

“She’ll run next in the Dunedin Guineas over a mile and then we’ll assess her after that,” Gleeson said.

“Nigel has always been of the opinion that she’ll stay.

“Her mother Abeautifulred ran

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Excelleration has started her southern campaign in superb style, taking the thick end of the stake in the Listed Liquorland Gore Guineas on Saturday.

second in the New Zealand 1000 Guineas and the grand-mother You Beauty was third in the New Zealand Oaks.

“It’s nice for a young mare to now have produced a stakes winner with her first foal.”

Wellfield will offer a half-brother (Lot 13) to Excelleration by Fastnet Rock at the Book 1 Sale at

Karaka on January 28.

Excelleration was ridden at Gore

by Kylie Williams, who said she didn’t have to unduly pressure the filly to win with ease.

“She got held up a bit, but once into the clear she did it easily.

“I just changed my grip and I didn’t have to pull the stick.”

- NZME

■ WOODVILLE

Exciting times for Te Akau The powerful Te Akau Racing team will attempt a hit and run mission at Woodville today when eccentric performer Wide Awake tackles the Bambry’s Water Treadmill Woodville Cup (2100m).

Wide Awake will be the only member of the Matamata operation in action at Woodville with co-trainer Stephen Autridge hopeful the Savabeel gelding can give the team a perfect winning record for the day.

“I think it’s time for this horse to step up and produce the sort of performance we think he is capable of,” said Autridge.

“He has been a little unlucky along the way however, he probably hasn’t quite lived up to his reputation as yet.

“He gets the right opportunity at Woodville to make a statement so that is what we will be looking for.”

A $150,000 purchase by David Ellis from the Premier session of the 2015 National Yearling Sale, the son of four-time Group One placegetter Kay’s Awake has won two of his 12 starts.

Autridge is of the belief that a step up to a middle distance is what the four-yearold has been looking for.

“I think it has just been a maturity thing with him so now that he is getting stronger he appeals as the type that will thrive over a bit of distance,” he said.

“His last run at Hawkes Bay over a mile was good as he hit the line strongly, so I don’t see the step up to 2100m as a problem.”

Meanwhile Autridge, training partner Jamie Richards and the whole Te Akau Racing team are gearing up for a massive day at Ellerslie on Saturday where they will

Stephen Autridge saddle up leading contenders in a number of the feature events.

New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas winner Embellish looks likely to start a warm favourite in the Listed Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) while Melody Belle will tackle the Gr. 3 Mongolian Khan Trophy (1200m).

The Listed Karaka Million (1200m) for the two-year-olds could see Te Akau provide more than a third of the field with Avantage, Al Hasa, Sword Of Osman and Pinot Grey guaranteed a start with Irish Cream also a chance to make the final field.

“All of the team are ready to go for Ellerslie, so it is a very exciting time,” said Autridge. “We will have final gallops on Tuesday but at this stage we are very pleased with the team.

“Of course, we will need luck to go our way, but we are going in with some live winning chances which is really all you can ask for.”

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Monday, January 22, 2018

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You’re exceptionally creative today, but chances are you’re being asked to take part in rather conventional environments. Take the format and give it a creative twist.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): A kind act can take many forms, but no matter how it shows up, it will not be mistaken. People know what compassion feels like. Today’s kind intention will have an unmistakable warmth to it.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Good is coming from the situation – though it’s too early to detect, and if you try, you’ll only get in the way of the process. Take it one thing at a time, striving for the kindest and most patient response.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): They think they know you, but do they really? You change like your guiding luminary, the moon – showing a different kind of radiance by the hour. To love you is to be in a constant state of learning.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Although your reasoning powers are stronger than ever, there are some situations you won’t be able to reason your way into or out of. Use your intuition. You can trust your extrasensory perceptions.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Listen to the small concerns.

Handle the nuances. Maybe this isn’t pettiness so much as an opportunity to tend to something that really oughtn’t fall through the cracks.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You said it before, but you’ll have to say it again – this time in a different way, though. Keep trying new approaches until you find the one they can best hear and understand.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Past events have made you hesitant to go forward, but don’t let that stop you altogether. Take it as a sign that there’s something more to find out about the situation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You’ll hear the echo of a call initiated weeks ago. You may not be sure whether you made the right choice back there, but don’t worry too much about it, because what matters is what you do next.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Moving your body will be important and will lead to greater movement and flexibility of emotion and thought, especially today.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Should you elevate the physical above the mental, the aesthetic over the practical, the spiritual above the sensual?

No, no and no! It’s all working beautifully together as you honour your whole self.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): There’s a beautiful rhythm and variation in your daily life – with all the little sections of life in nice slices, shuffled and fanned out so that you can play them to their best effect.

WordBuilder

Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There is at least one fiveletter word.

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Previous cryptic solution

Across 1. Sired 4. Lion cub 8. Temptress 9. Sir 10. Noughts 12. Inch 14. Antlers 17. Four 18. Shake-up 20. Nip 21. Chorister 23. Everest 24. Giddy Down 1. Sit on the fence 2. Rumour 4. Lie 2 3. Ditching 9 5. Oust 6. Casino 7. Birthday party 9 11. Salts 13. Creaking 8 5 15. Purple 16. Bested 19. Acre 22. Oft

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ACROSS 6. Unusual event (6) 7. Bring into being (6) 10. Harsh (7) 11. Nerd (5) 12. Shade (4) 13. Die (colloq) (5) 16. Preliminary sketch (5) 17. Opera star (4) 20. Also known as (5) 21. Makes possible (7) 22. Edible part of a nut (6) 23. Source (6)

Previous solution: ads, aid, aids, ais, avid, dais, dis, diva, divas, ids, sad, said, vas, via, visa.

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DOWN 1. Ruin financially (5,3,4) 2. Gift (7) 3. Scatter (5) 4. Bit by bit (7) 5. Artist’s stand (5) 8. Shameful (12) 9. Scared witless (9) 14. Took hold of (7) 15. Hamlet (7) 18. Steep-sided sea inlet (5) 19. Delay (5)

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ACROSS 1. Draw in the shading and bring forth a chick (5) 4. Satan, the old one, used money when embracing ‘is female (7) 8. He rebels in rep anyhow, so should be blamed for it (13) 10. Sing one’s praises for entering the next Olympic Games (5) 11. Hug topless lady first and last, though she’s no beauty (4) 12. Am to be held by the French, being unable to walk properly (4) 16. A lofty, alternative division, to any extent (2,3) 17. Tour of Big Ben taking twenty-four hours? (5,3,5) 19. Fifty calculators used to make runs (7) 20. Was bristling as one haughtily left? (5) DOWN 1. Arrogant-sounding of art to have to do with gardening (13) 2. Behead the very best (3) 3. Misdeed with high explosive at the start one took note of (6) 4. Sleepers get between lines for sailors (6) 5. It is known at end of match from Ulster maybe (6) 6. It’s up to me to get Academicians in pubs to discomfort one (9) 7. It may admit one to watch, even if it’s only play (7,6) 9. Fifty-pence weight? (4-5) 13. Have the management of a title (6) 14. Flogs a number of trees (6) 15. Sets Labour leader in Steppes, by the sound of them (6) 18. The unit for a person who’s indefinite (3)

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Low cloud morning and night otherwise fine spells with isolated afternoon showers.

Easterly breezes.

Morning cloud clearing to mainly fine, however, showers developing about the divide in the morning with a few spreading elsewhere in the afternoon. Wind at 1000m: NW 30 km/h. Wind at 2000m: NW 40 km/h.

TOMORROW Areas of morning low cloud then mainly fine.

Northeasterly breezes.

FZL: Above 3000m

overnight max low

Auckland

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Hamilton

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Napier

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cloudy

Mainly fine, however, isolated afternoon showers about the divide. Wind at 1000m: NW 30 km/h. Wind at 2000m: W 40 km/h, rising to 50 km/h in the evening.

Nelson

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FZL: Above 3000m

Mainly fine, isolated showers inland from afternoon. Northwesterly turning southerly, dying out later.

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Mainly fine, isolated afternoon showers.

Northwesterly becoming strong or gale.

Timaru

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World Weather fine rain showers cloudy fine showers fine fine fine fine thunder fog fine cloudy cloudy

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 199.1 Nth Ashburton at 1:05 pm, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 2:10 pm, yesterday

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A shallow trough of low pressure and associated weak fronts affect the North Island today. A weak ridge of high pressure covers southern districts. The trough moves away to the east late tomorrow allowing a ridge to spread over the country in its wake. A front is expected to move onto the far south of the South Island later Wednesday.

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SMYTH, Elwyn Mae – On January 20, 2018, peacefully at Terrace View, Ashburton. Aged 74 years.

Dearly loved wife of Donald.

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McNABB, Elmer Charles – On January 21, 2018 at Ashburton Hospital, in his 88th year. Loved husband of Eileen.

Loved father of Ian, and the late Craig, father-in-law of Kay and Grandad of Hannah, and Ben. Special thanks to Coldstream Retirement Village, and Ashburton Hospital. Messages to 1/47 Burnett Street, Ashburton or 22 Rob Roy Lane, Wanaka.

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6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 10am Tipping Point 11am The Chase 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm MasterChef Australia 3 0 2:30 F Dog Squad 3 0 3pm Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook – Through The Seasons 3 It is winter shearing time in the South Island high-country, so Annabel visits a sheep station to cook a portable feast of piadini steak sandwiches for the farmer and his crew. 0 4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm The Extreme Cake Makers A cat lover will receive the purr-fect birthday surprise, a cake that looks like her two favourite cats. 0 7:30 The Celebrity Chase 0 8:30 Criminal Minds AO 0 10:20 1 News Tonight 0 10:50 Lucifer AO 3 0

12:35 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 1am Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2

The Lake House 9pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 10am Four Weddings USA 3 10:55 Million Dollar Listing LA 3 11:50 Snapped PGR 3 12:45 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills 1:40 Dance Moms 3 2:35 Tabatha Takes Over 3 3:35 Catfish 3 4:30 Four Weddings USA 5:30 Hoarders 3 6:25 Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles (Starting Today) 3 7:30 Yours, Mine, Or Ours PGR After eight months of dating, Lana and Sean are ready to move in together, and hope Reza and Taylor can guide them to where they should call home.

8pm Yours, Mine, Or Ours PGR Jamie and Jill refuse to set a date for their wedding without living under the same roof, and need Reza and Taylor’s input to work out whether to renovate or find their dream home.

8:30 Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles PGR 9:30 He Shed She Shed 10:30 Intervention AO 3 11:20 Snapped PGR 3 12:10 Infomercials 3

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THREE

PRIME

6am Impact For Life 6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Peppa Pig 0 7am My Little Pony – Friendship Is Magic 3 0 7:25 Ben 10 – Omniverse 3 0 7:50 Pokemon Sun And Moon 3 0 8:15 Puppy Pals 3 0 8:35 Captain Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Reno Rumble PGR 3 0 1pm Jeremy Kyle PGR 0 2pm Judge Rinder 3pm Home Improvement 3 0 3:30 Ultimate Spider-Man PGR 0 4pm Girl Meets World 3 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons Bart and the others lay siege to their elementary school when it fails to shut down during a snow storm. 0 5:30 The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours Erinsborough bands together in a search; Tyler has an uncertain future. 0

6am The AM Show 9am American Ninja Warrior 3 10am Infomercials 11:30 House Rules PGR 3 0 1pm M Metal Tornado PGR 3 2011 Sci-fi Thriller.

An American company inadvertently unleashes a magnetic vortex.

Lou Diamond Phillips, Nicole de Boer, Greg Evigan. 0 2:55 Now That’s Funny! PGR 0 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm Susie Nordqvist presents comprehensive coverage of global and local news.

4:30 Entertainment Tonight 5pm Family Feud Australia 5:30 Modern Family 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Family Food Fight 0 9pm M The Lake House PGR 2006 Drama. A lonely doctor who once occupied a lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, and discovers they are actually living two years apart. Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock. 0 10:50 2 Broke Girls AO 0

7pm The Project 7:30 House Rules PGR 0 8:45 Special – I Am Heath Ledger AO Documentary in which friends and family of the late actor Heath Ledger remember his life and career. 0 10:45 NewsHub Late

11:20 Empire PGR 3 0 12:15 Desperate Housewives AO 30 1am Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:25 Infomercials 2:30 Army Wives 3 0 4am Regular Show 3 0 4:15 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:15 Thirteen AO (Starting Today) 3 Ivy Moxam escapes the house that has been her prison for the last 13 years, and her life can now begin again. 0 12:20 Infomercials 5:30 City Impact Church

Special – I Am Heath Ledger, 8:45pm on Three

THE BOX 6am Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:25 Jeopardy! PG 6:50 Ice Road Truckers PG 7:40 Doctor Who PGV 8:55 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 9:45 Hatfields And McCoys 16VLS (Miniseries) 11:35 Jeopardy! PG Noon Wheel Of Fortune PG 12:25 Pawn Stars – UK PG 12:50 The Force MC 1:20 Ice Road Truckers PG 2:10 NCIS PGV 3:10 Doctor Who PGV (Part 2) 4:30 The Simpsons PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:30 Ice Road Truckers PG 6:30 The Force MC 7pm Pawn Stars – UK PG 7:30 NCIS PGV 8:30 Criminal Intent MV 9:30 Criminal Intent MV 10:30 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 11:25 NCIS PGV TUESDAY 12:25 Doctor Who PGV 1:50 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 2:40 Pawn Stars PG 3:05 The Simpsons PG 3:30 The Force MC 3:55 Criminal Intent MV 4:45 Criminal Intent MV 5:35 The Force MC

6:30 Takaro Tribe 3 6:40 Nga Papara Kapi 3 7:10 Penguins Of Madagascar 3 7:40 Kia Mau 7:50 Paia 3 8am Te Kaea 3 2 8:30 R&R 9am Whanau Living 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Cam’s Kai 3 10:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 11am Te Araroa – Tales From The Trails 3 Noon Waka Warriors 3 12:30 The Laughing Samoans 1pm The GC PGR 3 1:30 Kapa Haka Regionals 2016 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Takaro Tribe 3 3:10 Nga Papara Kapi 3 3:40 Penguins Of Madagascar 3 4:10 Kia Mau 4:20 Paia 3 4:30 Ahorangi Next Generation 3 5pm Grid 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 6:30 Te Kaea 3 2 7pm Paepae 3 7:30 F Café Niugini PGR 3 8pm Native Affairs Summer Series (HLS) 8:30 M Project Nim PGR 2011 Documentary. Based on the true story of a chimpanzee raised like a human baby during the 1970s.

10:20 The Political Game PGR 3 10:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3

11:50 Football – English Premier League Southampton v Tottenham Hotspur.

At St Mary’s Stadium.

1:50 Closedown

11:20 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:50 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS 8:05 The Blair Witch Project MLC 1999 Thriller.

Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard. 9:30 The Girl Next Door 16LS 2004 Comedy.

Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant.

11:15 Blue Jasmine ML 2013 Drama.

Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin.

12:55 Contagion ML 2011 Thriller. Matt Damon, Kate Winslet. 2:40 Man On Fire 16VC 2004 Crime.

Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning. 5:05 The Way, Way Back MS 2013 Comedy Drama.

Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney. 6:45 The Fast And The Furious MVL 2001 Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster.

8:30 Bedazzled PGS 2000 Comedy. A well-meaning but socially inept man is granted seven wishes by the devil to snare the girl of his dreams, in exchange for his soul.. Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley.

10:05 Cloverfield MV 2008 Action. Lizzy Caplan, TJ Miller, Mike Vogel.

11:30 Undercover Brother MVL 2002 Comedy.

TUESDAY 12:55 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 2018 Featurette. 1:10 The Way, Way Back MS 2013 Comedy Drama. 2:50 The Fast And The Furious MVL 2001 Action.

4:35 Bedazzled PGS 2000 Comedy.

TUESDAY

CHOICE

6am The Legend Of Korra 3 6:25 Ben 10 6:50 Codename – Kids Next Door 7:15 Kung Fu Dino Posse 3 7:40 Duck Dodgers 8:05 Batman – Brave And The Bold 8:30 Danger Mouse 8:55 Tiki Tour 0 9:25 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:50 Jeopardy 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Antiques Road Trip 12:40 The Coroner PGR 3 0 1:35 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 2:30 Wheel Of Fortune 3pm Escape To The Country 3 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 5pm Jeopardy 5:30 Prime News 6pm American Restoration 0 6:30 Pawn Stars A street-legal pirate-ship parade float arrives in the shop.

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 American Pickers 8:30 M Chef AO 2014 Comedy Drama. A head chef leaves his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family. 0 10:50 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR

6:45 Chips 16VLSC 2017 Comedy. Dax Shepard, Michael Pena. 8:25 The Space Between Us MC 2017 Drama. Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield.

10:25 Lights Out MV 2016 Horror. Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello.

11:45 Fathers And Daughters MLSC 2015 Drama. Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried. 1:40 Blair Witch 16VLC 2016 Horror.

James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez. 3:10 Chips 16VLSC 2017 Comedy.

Dax Shepard, Michael Pena.

4:50 Stop The Wedding PG 2016 Romantic Comedy.

Rachel Boston, Niall Matter.

6:20 The Light Between Oceans MS 2016 Drama.

8:30 IT MVLS 2016 Thriller. In a world of hyper connectivity, a wealthy man finds his life being hacked by his IT consultant, endangering all he has worked for. Pierce Brosnan, James Frecheville.

10:10 Me Before You PGL 2016 Drama. Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin.

Midnight Infidelity In Suburbia MC 2017 Thriller.

Sarah Butler, Marcus Rosner.

1:30 Stop The Wedding PG 2016 Romantic Comedy.

Rachel Boston, Niall Matter.

3am Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 3:15 The Light Between Oceans MS 2016 Drama. 5:25 IT MVLS 2016 Thriller.

MAORI

SKY SPORT 1 7am Cricket – International (HLS) Australia v England – Third ODI. 7:30 Tennis – Australian Open (HLS) Day Seven. 8:30 Fox Sports News 9am Golf – PGA European Tour (HLS) Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship – Round Four. 9:30 Motorsport – TR Series (HLS) Round One. 10:30 Cycling – Tour Down Under (HLS) Stage Six. 11am Cricket – International (HLS) Australia v England – Third ODI. 11:30 Cricket – Big Bash (RPL) Perth Scorchers v Hobart Hurricanes.

2:30 Cricket – ICC U19 World Cup (HLS) New Zealand v South Africa. 3:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Pakistan – First T20. 7:30 The Cricket Show 8pm Rugby – Challenge Cup (RPL) Teams TBC. 10pm Fox Sports News 10:30 Cricket – ICC U19 World Cup (HLS) New Zealand v South Africa.

11:30 Cricket – International (HLS) Blackcaps v Pakistan – First T20.

TUESDAY Midnight Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) CareerBuilder Challenge – Round Four.

12:30 Netball – Quad Series (RPL) South Africa v Australia.

2am Netball – Quad Series (RPL) England v Silver Ferns.

3:30 Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Melbourne Renegades v Adelaide Strikers. 4am Fight Night On SKY

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

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6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 American Pickers 8:30 Chinese New Year – The Biggest Celebration On Earth 9:30 Paul Hollywood City Bakes 10:30 Tiny House Nation 11:30 Tiny House Hunting Noon Astronauts – Toughest Job In The Universe PGR 1pm Chinese New Year – The Biggest Celebration On Earth 2pm American Pickers 3pm Luxury Uncovered 3:30 Love Nature – Wild Birds Of Australia 4:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things – Best Bites 5pm Luke Nguyen’s United Kingdom 5:30 American Pickers 6:30 Caribbean Pirate Treasure 7pm David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 7:30 Treasures Decoded 8:30 The Hector – Canada’s Mayflower 9:30 The Story Of Egypt 10:30 American Pickers

11:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things – Best Bites Midnight Luke Nguyen’s United Kingdom 12:30 Roar Of The Wild 1am Caribbean Pirate Treasure 1:30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 2am Love Nature – Wild Birds Of Australia 3am Tiny House Hunting 3:30 Luxury Uncovered 4am Treasures Decoded 5am The Hector – Canada’s Mayflower

SKY SPORT 2 6am Football – A-League (RPL) Melbourne City FC v Adelaide United.

8am Football – A-League (HLS) Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix.

8:30 Football – ISPS Handa Premiership (RPL) Team Wellington v Hawkes Bay United. 10:30 NZ Football Weekly Show 11am Basketball – NBL (HLS) Cairns Taipans v New Zealand Breakers. 11:30 Tennis – Australian Open (HLS) Day Seven. 12:30 Motorsport – Dakar Rally (HLS) Stage 14. 1pm Motorsport – Dakar Rally (HLS) Week Two. 1:30 Cycling – UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup (RPL) 4pm Cycling – UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup (RPL) Women’s Elite. 5pm Cycling – UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup (RPL) Men’s Elite. 6:30 Cycling – Tour Down Under (HLS) Stage Six. 7pm Hook Me Up! 8pm The Crowd Goes Wild 8:30 Cricket – Super Smash Grand Final – Knights v Stags.

9pm Cricket – International Blackcaps v Pakistan – First T20. 9:35 L Cricket – Big Bash Melbourne Renegades v Adelaide Strikers.

TUESDAY 1:30 Football – A-League Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix.

2am Football – A-League (RPL) Brisbane Roar FC v Perth Glory. 4am Football – A-League (RPL) Western Sydney Wanderers FC v Melbourne Victory.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Deadliest Catch PG A Brotherhood Tested.

8:20 MythBusters PG Speed Cameras. 9:10 Alaskan Bush People M 10am Blowing Up History PG Curse of the Blood Pyramids. 10:50 Mighty Ships PG 11:40 Web Of Lies M 12:30 Murder Comes To Town M My Dearest Diary.

1:20 People Magazine Investigates M JonBenet – The Untold Truth. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 How Do They Do It? PG 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG Prodigal Son. 4:45 Garage Rehab PG Scotty’s Automotive.

5:40 MythBusters PG Birds in a Truck. 6:35 Diesel Brothers PG Motors and Rotors.

7:30 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Cutlass Lowrider 1. 8:30 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Cutlass Lowrider 2.

9:25 Garage Rehab PG Blue Ribbon Automotive.

10:15 Alaska – The Last Frontier M The Day the Homestead Caught Fire.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M The Danger Within.

11:55 People Magazine Investigates M JonBenet – The Untold Truth.

TUESDAY 12:45 Murder Comes To Town M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaskan Bush People M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 Moonshiners M

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Monday, January 22, 2018

Sport Kerber defeats Sharapova Angelique Kerber has continued her march towards a second Australian Open crown with a clinical thirdround victory over five-time grand slam winner Maria Sharapova. The 2016 champion made just seven unforced errors on Saturday, holding serve in all but one game in cruising to a 6-1 6-3 victory in an hour and four minutes on Rod Laver Arena.

The German 21st seed is the last remaining major winner in the women’s field following a streak of first-week upsets.

Khawaja ‘awesome’

Coldstream’s Kalum Edirisnghe is at maximum effort delivering a ball down the pitch in his team’s game against Tech on Saturday.

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Lauriston in a thriller

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Lauriston squeaked a three-run win over Allenton and Tech beat Coldstream in the latest round of Pritchard Shield senior cricket in Mid Canterbury over the weekend.

Allenton won the toss and put the country side in to bat first,

where they made 179 before being all out around the 44th over.

Allenton’s reply started well but losing a clump of middle order wickets did them no favours and they fell three runs short at 176.

Dylan Stoddart was Allenton’s most economical bowler while Tom Dudley was the fielder in

the action, taking four catches at mid on.

Jordan Bird on 55 and Jack Meyrick on 28 were the pick of the batsmen.

Tech batted first against Coldstream, for 146 all out.

Hayden Sinclair on 47 and Harry Jones on 43 starred with the bat, despite the best efforts of

Coldstream’s Richard Print, who claimed a five-wicket bag.

Jackson Print took two and Glenn McClea two.

Coldstream only managed four players in double figures, with Jeremy Punselie cleaning up the tail in his 5/33.

Kody Stuthridge took two and the mended Jones two as well.

Joshua determined to make Parker pay Anthony Joshua has admitted that Joseph Parker’s jibes about his supposed glass jaw and being the “king of steroids” has gotten under his skin, and he is intent on making the Kiwi pay.

Joshua will put his WBA, IBF and IBO belts on the line against the WBO champion Parker in Cardiff on April 1 (NZ time).

The British heavyweight star accused Parker and his camp of

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making up lies about him being put down in the gym and using steroids to hype the fight.

“Three times it’s happened,” Joshua said. “If you want to use it as a PR stunt carry on using it

as a PR stunt, but let’s just talk about facts if you want to talk real. It gets under my skin. If he’s better than me, tougher than me, it will take a lot to put me away, I won’t stop coming.”

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Shane Watson had some advice for Australian selectors after Usman Khawaja set up the Sydney Thunder’s emphatic BBL win over the Stars – ‘just let Usi be Usi’. The yest No.3, who hasn’t featured in ODIs since January last year and played his last international T20 match in 2016, struck 44 runs from 26 balls including nine fours at the MCG. The 31-year-old still harbours ambitions to represent his country in all three formats and Watson is adamant he would excel if given the chance.

Bailey’s backheeler Leon Bailey’s superb backheel goal set Bayer Leverkusen on their way to an emphatic 4-1 win at Hoffenheim which moved them up to second place in the German Bundesliga. The highly-rated Jamaican produced an cheeky finish in the 43rd minute to put the visitors in front. Julian Baumgartlinger doubled the lead six minutes after the break and Lucas Alario made it three. Adam Szalai scored a late consolation for Hoffenheim, but there was still time for Alario to grab his second.

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