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Hawke’s Bay police safety campaign catches drivers ignoring the law

2 Cheap as chips: Hawke’s Bay seafood company offers 15pc discount on fish and chips for iwi members

3 Napier’s fishermen statue: The models, the artist and the unlikely friendship

4 Meka Whaitiri: ‘I don’t believe it

will be no forever’

5 Opera House renovation hits high

notes

Quiz

1 What was the first African country to win a FIFA World Cup match, beating Mexico 3-1 in the 1978 tournament in Argentina?

2 Which Italian word for bottle means a complete and utter failure when used in the English language?

3 Who was named Time magazine

man of the 20th century?

4 What are the two countries within South America which do not border Brazil?

5 What playing card has been

labelled ‘The Curse of Scotland’?

Joke of the day

Q: What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy?

A: I don’t know and I don’t care.

Bible quote

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” Isaiah 12:2

History

1881: US President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station. Garfield died the following September. Guiteau was hanged in June 1882. 1937: Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first roundthe-world flight along the equator. 1961: Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.

Birthdays

● Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos is 90.

● Writerdirectorcomedian Larry David is

72.

● Rock musician Gene Taylor is 67.

● Actressmodel Jerry Hall is 63.

● Actor Owain Yeoman is 41.

● Actress Lindsay Lohan is 33.

● Actress Margot Robbie is 29.

Quiz Answers

1. Tunisia. 2. Fiasco. 3. Albert Einstein. 4. Chile and Ecuador. 5. The nine of diamonds.

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