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The Star (Christchurch), 17 Sep 2026

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The Star is a metro community newspaper full of local news, business, entertainment, sport, food, puzzles, travel, opinion, property, classifieds, gardening, motoring, home and more.

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ArticleBattle over bill­board puts plan­ning powers in spot­light

More elec­tronic bill­boards could pop up around the city and people will just have to put up with them, as city coun­cil­lors are power­less to stop them without inter­ven­tion from cent­ral Gov­ern­ment. Heath­cote Ward coun­cil­lor Nath­aniel Herz...

Battle over bill­board puts plan­ning powers in spot­light

ArticleDr Wat­son fly­ing high

“I’ve had plenty of people tell me that I do too many things. But I’ve always loved everything I do.” That is how Dr Alex­an­dra Wat­son, 25, has man­aged to juggle doing four degrees at Can­ter­bury Uni­versity — the most recent a doc­tor­ate in...

Dr Wat­son fly­ing high

Articlegreat things to do this week­end

1 Jer­sey Boys Sat­urday, 7.30pm, and Sunday, 4pm The Tony Award-win­ning musical about Frankie Valli and The Four Sea­sons is com­ing to the Isaac Theatre Royal. Jer­sey Boys tells the extraordin­ary true story about a group of blue-col­lar boys who...

great things to do this week­end

ArticleAuc­tion lot tells story of hero’s WW2 escapes

John Alex­an­der Red­path had already escaped cap­tiv­ity once when he found him­self being trans­por­ted to Ger­many in a cattle car. A few hours into the jour­ney, the Christ­ch­urch-born World War 2 hero cut through the wood around a lock on a side...

Auc­tion lot tells story of hero’s WW2 escapes