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A Christchurch family are devastated their 20-year-old cat was handed to the SPCA and killed before they had a chance to save it.
The Clarke family of Halswell had Krumpet for 20 years.
Last Tuesday, father Gwyn Clarke was shocked to come home from work and find a note in his letterbox saying their female ginger cat [...]

ANDREA ASTERShe described John O’Keefe, accidental victim of a Jan. 12 gunshot outside a Yonge St. strip bar, as her first boyfriend and a great love of her life:%26quot;Please don’t fall into the trap of thinking of John as murder victim No. 2, as the cliché goes, (an) everyman who was in the wrong place [...]

The setting is 1980, though the period is not signalled with any of the traditional giveaways. Tommy Lee Jones plays Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, an intelligent and sympathetic lawman, from a proud family of lawmen, who is, however, preparing to quit, having become disenchanted by society’s inability to contain the criminals’ evolutionary leap to a [...]