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Council chair rejects ‘shambles’ claim over Napier Port consultation

2 Another secret tape: Jami-Lee Ross and Simon Bridges discuss harassment of women

3 Magnitude 4.5 quake shakes

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4 Hastings frost fan maker eyes

international expansion

5 Rugby: Evans stays in Japan after

classy debut

Quiz

1 Who in history once referred the English as a nation of shopkeepers?

2 Which Motown recording star was

fatally shot by his father in 1984?

3 In sport, what does PGA stand for? 4 Who won only four games in the 1984 Wimbledon men’s singles final?

5 Which of the senses did the poet

John Milton lack?

Joke of the day

I went in to a pet shop. I said, “Can I buy a goldfish?” The guy said, “Do you want an aquarium?”

I said, “I don’t care what star sign it is.”

Bible quote

And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: — Mark 9:43

History

1861: Confederate President Jefferson Davis was elected to a sixyear term of office.

1893: Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.

1962: Democrat Edward M. Kennedy was elected Senator from Massachusetts.

1984: President Ronald Reagan won re-election by a landslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale.

1990: About one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.

Birthdays

● Actress June Squibb is 89.

● Country singer Stonewall Jackson is 86.

● Singer P.J. Proby is 80.

● Actress Sally Field is 72.

● News correspondent Maria Shriver is 63.

● Actress Lori Singer is 61.

● Actor Peter DeLuise is 52.

● Actress Kelly Rutherford is 50.

● Actor Ethan Hawke is 48.

● Actress Thandie Newton is 46.

● Actress Emma Stone is 30.

● Actress Mercedes Kastner is 29.

Quiz Answers

1) Napoleon Bonaparte 2) Marvin Gaye 3) Professional Golfers Association 4) Jimmy Connors 5) Sight

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