Another child left at home while parent is out drinking!

Police have charged a 24-year-old Glenfield mother after her young son was found wandering the street alone at 2.30am. A neighbour discovered the four year old in Bayview on July 7 and notified police. he child was crying and calling out ”Mummy”. Police went to a nearby address and found that the mother had left [...]

Convicted child groomer Michael Dobbyn has young boy at his home in Bayswater

According to the following report in the NZ Herald Michael Dobbyn who just a week or so ago was sentenced to 500 hours of community service and home detention for grroming two young boys had one at his house just days prior to his sentencing. Police were called to the home of a former school [...]

U2 tops the list of music’s biggest earners

Forbes has issued its Top-10-earners list of musicians between June 2009 and June 2010, and only two of them, Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas, have had abundant sales of recorded music. On top of that, only two of the acts pulled in more than $100 million, a plateau that Forbes speculates will not [...]

North Shore City Council approves concept plans for new National Ocean Water Sports Centre in Takapuna

The North Shore City Council has approved the concept plans for a National Ocean Water Sports Centre in Takapuna. The sports centre will bring together sailing and other programmes into a single purpose-built facility on the edge of Takapuna Beach providing a base for high performance training programmes for elite water sports athletes and coaches. [...]

North Shore teacher sentenced to home detention for sexual grooming and misconduct

Name suppression has been lifted on a former North Shore primary school teacher who was today sentenced to home detention for sexual grooming and misconduct involving two underage boys. Michael James Dobbyn, 52, has today been sentenced to 12 months home detention and 250 hours community work for four charges against two boys who were [...]