Queenstown has always been guaranteed a decent piece of the film and television industry pie. It is with pride that I view our backyard popping up on everything from the Chronicles of Narnia and the Lord of the Rings, to a bank commercial featuring a plastic pig strutting his stuff through the Queenstown Gardens. Bollywood are here every other month and with Jane Campion and Peter Jackson big fans, the future looks secure.

This weekend marks the start of the 2010 Super 14 season. On Friday night the Hurricanes and Blues clash in the fi rst Super 14 game of the year and as with all early season games this one is harder to pick than a suicide bomber at a busy Baghdad market place on a Saturday morning.

Dear Editor,

This is not much of a whinge, more a request/plea. I was one of the first people to arrive at the scene of the New Years Day fatal car crash on Littles road. I will spare you the details, except to say that the images and shock are still with me and a long list of ‘what ifs’... I wanted to share with you some of the lessons I have learned from this traumatic experience. I am not a member of the emergency services and so do not have years of in depth First Aid experience, I have however renued my basic first aid every 3 years for the last 20 years as part of my job. This means I had some idea of what to do whilst waiting for the professonals to arrive (luckily a number of Doctors live on that road so were able to assist very quickly). To everyone reading this:..