* Newstin.com is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.com and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.com is for sale! *

Peter Carter

Artistic Director's Blog

As usual at this time of the year – Keith Crook and I are busy getting the new What’s On prepared. It’s a mammoth task twice a year to produce this thing which seems to be similar to assembling the troops and equipment for...

Graham bids to be champion of champions

GRAHAM HATHERALL bids for a place at Worthing in the final stages of the National Champion of Champions tomorrow, writes DAVE EATON. The Westlecot member and former England under 25 international has reached the regional finals...

Health Unions Win 10 Per Cent Increase On Mileage Allowances For UK Nurses

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has led negotiations with NHS employers over the past year and has won a 10 per cent increase in all Agenda for Change Standard and Regular Mileage Allowances for nurses across the United...

More Power For Welsh Ward Sisters

New government plans mean that ward sisters and charge nurses in Wales will get more decision-making power. They will be "put firmly back in charge of patient care", according to Nursing Standard. Under the changes, nurses will...

Q&A: EU healthcare proposals

Patients in the EU may in future choose to shop around Europe for the best and quickest medical treatment, under proposals presented by the European Commission. The Commission says there has been too much uncertainty about...

NHS staff win petrol cost fight

NHS unions have won a battle to compensate staff for rising fuel costs. The deal will give one million staff a 10% increase in mileage allowance effective from 1st July. Staff have been feeling the pinch with rising fuel costs...

Air crash legal fight

Michael Madigan, Peter Michael and Tanya Chilcott COWBOY airlines, cover-ups and gross incompetence led to 15 people being killed in the Lockhart River plane crash, a Senate inquiry has been told. The damning evidence came as...

Broad Welcome For Darzi Plan Active

Lord Darzi’s proposals for the NHS won a welcome yesterday from many of the surgeon-turned-peer’s fiercest critics. The unveiling of an NHS Constitution, the lack of mention of polyclinics and a proposed shift from targets to...

Ask Phoebe: Council overlooked parks for disabled

Being a disabled person, I have tried to use the Akoranga bus station to make my ventures into central Auckland much easier. However, upon getting there in my car I found that parking is for 15 minutes only. Even with the fast...

Wonthaggi to Wimbledon Aussies and Federer

WHAT is it about Roger Federer and Australians? Gary Hamilton has been intimately involved with Federer's preparation for tonight's fourth-round match against the last Australian singles survivor at Wimbledon, Lleyton Hewitt....