Last Saturday at midday, a 4 metre tree fell over in central Wellington’s Midland Park, on to the pavement.

As gardeners know this is a common Spring event for deciduous trees, as in this case, which have not budded and are plainly dead.

So proclaimed the Herald in a ridiculous beat-up story last Saturday with nothing explosive about the item whatsoever.

The Herald revealed that hours before the double murder Lundy’s partner in a proposed vineyard venture was visited by two cuttings suppliers reps re non-payment of a deposit. The partner wrote a cheque for $16,000 then called Lundy in Wellington to tell him of this.

Auckland lawyer Adina Thorn is planning a class action against the Christchurch promoters of the Penrich Investment Fund, currently being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office.

France’s most popular television news channel BFM TV, advised the culprit arrested for the Paris stabbing attack on two journalists was a Pakistani born in 2002.

Having told us his birth year, they followed with the shock announcement that he was believed to be 18 years old. Now who would have guessed that?

We’ve lost our major tourism export earner due to an ill-thought prohibition. Very soon we may lose our now major farming one.

With the farming death toll through accidents up to 17 for the year, in the name of consistency, it can’t be long before, on Saint Ashley’s advice, the government closes down farming.