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New plan to cut off smokers in bars

Bars and eating places would be forced to segregate smokers and keep at least half of their public space smoke-free under a proposed law. The half-way smoking ban in pubs and restaurants is a new compromise on a total prohibition proposed last year by Labour and...

The day the calendar stopped

The surfing calendar pinned to Matthew Taylor's bedroom wall still hangs open at May 2000. "He wasn't here to turn it over, so we just haven't...

NZ man dies in avalanche

A New Zealand man has died after being caught in an avalanche while snowboarding in France. Trevor Hales, a 29-year-old formerly of Whangaparaoa,...

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• Mad cow blame put on antelope

• Contentious words may go from Anzac exhibition

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• British first to outlaw human cloning

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Business News

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• Dialogue:

Why the mega merger is good for New Zealand

• Affco shareholders given warning of poor result

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