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21 May: A new look for two-time Olympian Erika Fairweather as she begins her swimming nationals campaign in Auckland tonight

21 May: A Taranaki man's been sentenced to 12 months home detention - for setting fire to a house bus in Manaia 20 years ago, killing a man inside,

21 May: A 47-year-old woman has been sent to prison for repeatedly stabbing a Christchurch taxi driver

21 May: One person's died after a single-vehicle crash on Timaru's Evans Street this morning

21 May: What’s the difference between skim milk and light milk?

21 May: A Christchurch City Councillor says moves are under way, to make the hospital surrounds safer at night

21 May: A Dunedin police office's suffered an asthma attack, when a man being arrested sprayed deodorant in her face

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