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Posted at 11:36am Saturday 18th Feb, 2012
 An author and historian responsible for recording and preserving the history of Tauranga is to be remembered with a special gathering at Tauranga City Library.
Alister Matheson passed away a year ago and to mark the one year anniversary an extended invitation is being offered to those who knew Alister.
The event is being held at the New Zealand Room...
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Posted at 4:56pm Monday 13th Feb, 2012
 The SunLive and Tourism Bay of Plenty Bay Beaches Photo Competition winners have selected their prizes.
Judea photographer Donna Beck won the adult category and for her prize she is taking is a trip out to White Island with Pee Jay White Island Tours.
Donna Beck, Claire Roderick and Daniel Hines are three of the four winners in the SunLive and Tourism...
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Posted at 4:11pm Friday 10th Feb, 2012 | By Phillipa Yalden phillipa@thesun.co.nz
 It’s been a long and sometimes hard road for two French tourists who have arrived in Tauranga after cycling 21,000km around the world.
Julien Leblay, 30, and Marion Dumas, 25, are in Tauranga this weekend on the final leg of their 20-month epic bicycle journey from France to promote the need to donate blood.
French cyclists Marion Dumas and Julien...
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Posted at 2:56pm Friday 10th Feb, 2012
Give a little love and attention for Valentines by adopting an animal from the SPCA this weekend.
The Tauranga SPCA is joining the nationwide Valentine’s Day Adopt-a-thon – ‘playing cupid to lonely animals in their care find loving homes’.
SPCA Tauranga operations manager Margaret Rawiri says they desperately need people to...
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Posted at 12:25pm Friday 10th Feb, 2012 | By Phillipa Yalden phillipa@thesun.co.nz
 At 92 years of age, Dorothy Wilson did not hold out much hope of fulfilling her dream of flying in a pre-World War Two aircraft, but this week she got her wish.
The Otumoetai resident was given a special treat on her 92nd birthday on Monday, when her friends shouted her for a flight in a 1930s Tiger Moth aircraft.
Tauranga resident Dorothy Wilson takes...
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Posted at 12:05pm Friday 10th Feb, 2012 | By Hamish Carter hamishcarter@thesun.co.nz
The winner of the SunLive and Tourism Bay of Plenty Bay Beaches Photo Competition adult section is Judea photographer Donna Beck.
Her winning photograph captured a fun moment in Pilot Bay where two young sisters were enjoying a boogie board ride.
The winning photo in the senior category by Donna Beck; Amber and Zara Gleeson ride a boogie board in Pilot...
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Posted at 7:01am Friday 10th Feb, 2012 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
 Colin Beere wants letters, lots of letters, to support an application for a broadcasting licence for an access community radio station in Tauranga.
Access Radio BOP Charitable Trust has a transmitter and several possible locations; it just needs to provide over 100 letters in support from the Tauranga community.
Colin Beere needs 100 letters to gain...
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Posted at 12:02pm Thursday 09th Feb, 2012 | By Letitia Atkinson letitia@thesun.co.nz
 Both international and national rugby legends are in Mount Maunganui enjoying a spot of bowls as they take part in an annual tournament.
Sir Colin Meads joins other ex-All Blacks Peter Henderson, Richie Guy, Snow White, Mac Herewini, Keith Nelsen and Ian Eliason for the 21st anniversary of the tournament.
Colin ‘Pine Tree’ Meads throws his...
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Posted at 12:20pm Monday 06th Feb, 2012 | By Laura Weaser laura@thesun.co.nz
 Gin Wigmore is the first to confess she does some really crazy things. Maybe it is a death wish, she says, but her philosophy is that “life stops once you stop trying to make stories for yourself”.
Back from the United States with more crazy tales that an old folk book, you can’t deny the 25 year old singer has lived. Her crazy cross-country...
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Posted at 11:27am Monday 06th Feb, 2012
 Get ready to sing along with some of the most iconic 70’s songs when The New Seekers’ Eve Graham and Paper Lace’s Philip Wright embark on a cross-country tour with Smash Hit 70’s.
Paper Lace.
Eve Graham’s remarkable vocal talents have been adored by fans for more than four decades, and the Scottish-born star’s musical...
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