Malcolm Gayfer

Sad news from the weekend with the passing of Singer-songwriter, actor  Irene Cara. Who doesn’t remember her playing Coco Hernandez in the hit movie Fame? That success was followed a couple of years later with Cara co writing  Flashdance…What A Feeling, the theme from the monster hit movie Flashdanc

It’s official. Rod Stewart has announced that he will be rockin’ Forsyth Barr Stadium next year. Sir Rod was down to do a show in Dunedin, but the pandemic struck , the show was off, and that was that. We were Rodless, so to speak. However great news to cap off a week, Sir Rod […]

From the Sports Desk. Hi there team. Another supa-dupa weekend of top level sports ahead of us and there’ll be an early start for many tomorrow (Sun) Possibly the biggest deal will be the Rugby League World Cup final between Samoa and Australia. That game is being played at The Old Trafford, Manches

A Billion dollar profit for Westpac NZ Westpac New Zealand made a billion-dollar full year profit, boosted by strong revenue growth and the sale of Westpac Life. Net profit $1.05b vs $931m up 12% Revenue $2.71b vs $2.46b up 10% Chief executive Catherine McGrath said the result put the bank in a stro

Armistice day today was marked in Invercargill this morning at bang on 1100hrs (11am) . Armistice Day goes back to the end of World War 1. Many, many Southlanders served in what was termed The Great War …On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. When the guns fell silent, we […]

Wow, and double Wow! Is this going to be the biggest sporting gig on our soil this year?  Reckon so. Tonight it’s the Rugby World Cup Women’s final between our Black Ferns and England, the Red Roses. One thing is a cert, it’ll be a double dip cracker. Eden Park is sold out with 40,000plus […]

Sky watchers get your cameras and binoculars for a lunar eclipse tonight (tues) A lunar eclipse happens when the moon travels through the Earth’s shadow. If the moon only partly makes it into the shadow, that’s a partial eclipse. In a total eclipse, the moon becomes fully immersed and takes on a red

Today is the big day for trotting and harness racing in NZ with the running of the IRT NZ Trotting Cup at Christchurch’s  Addington Raceway. (IRT stands for International Racehorse Transport.) IRT have instrumental in bringing some top Aussie trotters over for the race which has a stake of $600,000