A full page advertisement in the New Zealand Herald on behalf of a Queen Street watch retailer, The Hour Glass, offers advice on “how to achieve greatness”. I cannot recall ever reading greater gibberish.

A New Zealand Herald article advises that May is International Masturbation Month, this it advises having its origins in an International Masturbation Day established in 1995 in honour of then US Surgeon General, Jocelyn Elders.

It will be recalled last year shortly after STUFF was sold for a dollar to a Christchurch woman and a new female editor was appointed for the Dominion Post, then as with its New Zealand wide fleet of papers, all with collapsing circulations, an extraordinary event occurred.

Seemingly daily we read of GP misdiagnosis costing lives.

France has banned short haul domestic air travel on routes that could be travelled by train in less than 2½ hours.