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Two men are due to appear in the Whakatane District Court today charged with murder

2 July 2022

A 25-year-old man and a 32-year old man were arrested yesterday over the murder of 48-year-old Mark Hohua in Whakatane last week.

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28 Dec: Gisborne-bound motorists are being urged to drive safe, and plan ahead, as traffic's expected to worsen, over the holiday break

27 Dec: A body's been found in the search for a jet skiier, who went missing from the Waikato Bar, on Christmas Day

26 Dec: A search continues for a person who went missing after a jet ski incident near Port Waikato on Christmas

25 Dec: A person's been airlifted to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, after a quad bike rolled over around 2.30pm at Northland's Pouto Point

25 Dec: A Coromandel holidaymaker is still in shock after a shark attacked his kayak 'completely out of the blue.'

25 Dec: A light aircraft has crashed into an unoccupied house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: The Civil Aviation Authority's investigating after a light aircraft crashed into a house on the Coromandel Peninsula

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Soccer:
The Wellington Phoenix have signed Football Ferns midfielder Emma Pijnenburg as a replacement for Alyssa Whinham , who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the third round 10:27

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International:
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Entertainment:
Brigitte Bardot, iconic French actor, sex symbol and animal rights campaigner, dies aged 91 8:57

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