Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard misled investors in his tangled affairs, says a report written shortly before his death in a car accident in September, 2011.

Police are treating the case of a nine-year-old boy found bloodied and distressed on a rural Canterbury bridge as a suspected abduction.

A court wrangle involving $60 million of assets and one of the funds caught up in the Hubbard financial collapse has been adjourned until May next year.

A weekend on a South Canterbury farm charms Sheriden Rhodes.