The seductive allure of a dream lucrative career in sport can be a fatal attraction.

The three general seats in Hawke's Bay are marginal seats that swung to National in 2005. Two of them were held and one swung back

Bruce Bisset writes: Elephants of the political persuasion have a habit of making themselves all too visible at election time.

Greg Taipari writes: I'm looking forward to the weekend with three big events happening in the Bay. Obviously there is the election.

If you were in Napier CBD yesterday you probably would have been affected in some way by the bomb scare that saw the Napier Public Library and council buildings cordoned off for two hours.

At last, a decent rugby test match at the Cake Tin last Saturday night that allows the prudent to get a handle on the jandal, as it were.

From what I've seen, heroes are usually wallflowers and that's why the word "reluctant" is typically inserted before "hero", writes Mark Story.

This morning I woke up and suddenly realised that I have spent more than half of my life trying to save Marineland's animals.

Spring - it can make you do silly things.

Bruce Bisset writes: Dirty Politics may have obscured issues of policy in the campaign to date, but given all politicians present sweetened or poisoned views on their or others' planks.

For breakfast it was a New York cut of home-kill liver. Lunch consisted of green beans with duck eggs. Dinner, a mystery portion of sheep.