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1 ‘My body, my choice’: Woman out of preferred job following Covid vaccine refusal

2 The iconic Haumoana ‘caddy shack’ bach is gone. Here’s what might be replacing it

3 SPCA Hastings op shop in

‘desperate’ need of volunteers

4 Humble Napier police officer who saved a boy swept off Marine Parade dies of cancer

5 Success for entangled Napier

penguin’s hunger for the wild

Quiz

1 What is the surname of Romeo in the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet ?

2 What popular anime franchise had a video game series subtitled Budokai?

3 What character in the musical Les

Mise´rables sings On My Own?

4 The Japanese word “sakura” means the blossoming of what kind of tree?

5 What team did quarterback Brett Favre spend most of his professional football career with?

History

1833 Composer Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany.

1928 The minimum voting age for British women was lowered from 30 to 21 — the same age as men.

1946 Sony Corp had its beginnings as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp.

1954 The 55-day Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam ended with Vietnamese insurgents overrunning French forces.

1975 President Gerald R. Ford formally declared an end to the ‘Vietnam era’. In Ho Chi Minh City — formerly Saigon — the Viet Cong celebrated its takeover.

2010 A BP-chartered vessel lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault onto the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in an unprecedented, and ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea.

2011 The US released videos seized from Osama bin Laden’s hideout showing the terrorist leader watching newscasts of himself amid shabby surroundings.