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The road has been closed due to the slip on August 18 last year  (file pic)

Open day at blocked gorge road

The Manawatu public get a chance today to see progress on reopening a key road which has been closed since August last year.

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Derek Round was a former journalist and foreign correspondent

Journalist died in ‘horrific attack’ video

Police have described the death of a former journalist in his home in Whanganui last week as a “horrific attack”.

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Seventy-seven-year-old former foreign correspondent Derek Round was a victim of a violent attack on Thursday morning

Homicide victim former spy video

3 News can tonight reveal that a man found dead in his Whanganui home was a spy with links to the KGB, and his work led to the expulsion of two Soviets.

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Derek Round was found in his home on Campbell Street (Photo: Dan Parker)

Police hunting for journalist's killer

Police will continue forensic work this morning at the Whanganui home of a former journalist found dead in his home.

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The death of Derek Round is being treated as a homicide (Photo: Wairarapa Times-Age)

Distinguished journalist Derek Round dead

Derek Leonard Round, one of New Zealand's most distinguished journalists in the past 50 years, has died in suspicious circumstances.

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Police are investigating a suspicious death in Whanganui (file)

Whanganui death probe seeks car witnesses

Police investigating the suspicious death of an elderly Whanganui man want to hear from anyone who saw his car the night before his body was discovered.

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A man died from blood loss after punching a window (file)

Man bled to death after punching window

A Whanganui man died from blood loss after severing an artery in his arm when he punched a window in a rage after arguing with his sister, a coroner has found.

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Adam Biddle, 39, handed himself in on Wednesday night (file)

Wanted sex offender hands himself in

A child sex offender wanted for allegedly breaching his release conditions has handed himself in at the Whanganui Police Station.

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Whanganui body leads to homicide investigation

An elderly man whose body was found in downtown Whanganui on Thursday morning died in suspicious circumstances, police say.

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The collision has killed one person (file pic)

Truck and campervan collide, one dead video

A man is dead and a 70-year-old woman is in hospital with serious injuries after a motor home collided with a truck and trailer unit near Levin this afternoon.

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Keith Mabey will call jail home for the next 13 months

Jail for man who threatened to kill PM

A man who told a psychologist that he imagined “blowing up” the Prime Minister has been jailed for 13 months.

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Ateliana Lei Malu was remanded for sentence on June 19

Woman rips fellow churchgoer's earlobe off

A Palmerston North churchgoer ripped off part of a fellow parishioner's earlobe.

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Changes to Wanganui water supply

Residents in Fordell, just outside of Wanganui, have had to reduce water use and boil all drinking water.

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Widow Janice Brehaut says racing was her husband's passion

Killed motorcyclist's widow stays positive video

Janice Brehaut says the best tribute that can be paid to her husband is for people to grab life by both hands.

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Mark Brehaut (L), 45, died after colliding with another racer (Photo: Team Brehaut Racing))

Dead rider had recovered from brain injury

The motorcyclist who died in a racing accident yesterday was participating in his first major race after a brain condition.

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