The Southern Wairarapa mayor Alex Beijen, has started a petition to demand the government order banks to open branches in small towns.

An international row broke out yesterday in Europe, with the European Union crying unfair and accusing Britain of hogging access to coronavirus vaccines at the expense of EU nations.

Last Friday the Herald headlined a story about ritual goat killing in the city by Hindu citizens.

Last Saturday the Dom’ gave economist Bernard Hickey a full page to lambast the government (and others) over housing prices, which as an aside, is a world-wide problem.

A week ago on this Blog I wrote,

“We’re now in a fingers crossed situation, hoping that the new rapid mutation transmission variety doesn’t hit our shores. That’s not something I’d bet on”.