Emergency services were called to Fernhill Road at about 3am to a person injured at the bottom of some stairs - they died at the scene.

The death is not suspicious.

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22 Oct: Lauren Dickason could be deported after serving her sentence for murdering her three daughters

21 Oct: Two-million dollars a year for a pair of long-term Otago University birth-cohort studies

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