Manawatu Standard - 2014-05-16

• Lifeline for city research centres
• Driver admits almost killing husband
• Power of knowledge highlighte­d
• Survivor: Get your breasts checked
• Landmark fine sends message
• Mayor suggests high schools merge?
• Rangitikei not using capital works extras
• Kahlua heads for winning post
• Our teachers to benefit from portal cash jab
• Crime doesn’t pay for copper piping thief
• Parents hail free GPvisits for kids
• Budget looks ‘ unexciting’, inadequate for schools
• Critics: Funding falls behind preschool costs
• A confident Budget for a confident country
• Government dismays NewZealand­ers again
• ‘ Debate needed’ on health spending
• Witness recalls screams then silence as balloon burns
• Most rental homes flunk fitness warrant
• They can teach you a thing or two
• ‘ Modest’ boost for families in Budget
• Fiction and fudge- it Budget, says Labour
• Mine death toll is mounting
• Wildfire battle is slowly being won
• Putin pressures Ukraine over gas
• Russia slates ‘ Friends’ over support for rebels
• Time for Yellows
• Pfefferle would rather train Stags than horses
• Great mistresses of art revealed
• A celebratio­n of colour
• GARDEN DIARY
• Losing more state houses unacceptab­le
• Newera focuses on undoing of planet
• Budget comfortabl­e fit for many Kiwis
• TODAY IN HISTORY
• SMEswelcom­e R& Dtax breaks
• Trick is in ensuring growth is no illusion
• Lombard director seems unashamed
• Invisible tax cuts for now; no ‘ big bang’ on the horizon
• Hoarder trapped by trash
• Robust AJP appeals as an all- rounder
• Ambitious Baby Benz
• Fiesta offers triple appeal
• Picasso puts the people in people- mover
• Howto avoid being stranded
• Character test for Highlander­s
• Volunteer award honours Goodbehere’s big commitment
• Kiwis set for Olympic- style pressure in 7s final
• Blink and you’re out for the season
• White doubts revamp
• Club footy giving Boys’ High right test
• Vincent not at home to talk
• TAKEABREAK YOUR STARS CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
• Ice man gets to the point
• Off- field antics concern Farah
• Townsend making the grade
• Do the job or leave, Henry warns Pulse
• Daughter hones skills grappling with Dad
• Sergent on pace in California time trial

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