Rugby player with spinal injury flown to hospital

Aman who had been playing rugby in Blenheim was helicoptered to hospital in Christchurch on Saturday afternoon. The 23-year-old sustained a spinal injury and was ‘‘sore but with somemovement’’, Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter pilot Brendan Hiatt said. At 5am on Saturday morning, an elderly man suffering from a medical event was transferred from Nelson Hospital to Christchurch. Another manwas picked up from Waikawa Bay, also having had a medical event on Saturday. He was flown to Nelson Hospital.