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Baby rhino in Botswana adopted, named after Dr Ashley Bloomfield – Stuff.co.nz
New Zealand alcohol company, Part Time Rangers, adopted a new-born rhino in partnership with Rhinos Without Borders and named it after the ‘Kiwi legend’.
A baby rhinoceros in Botswana is walking around with a new name.
Ashley Bloomfield, named after the director-general of health, was adopted and named by New Zealand alcohol company, Part Time Rangers, in partnership with Rhinos Without Borders.
We cant wait to see our little Ashley grow! said co-founder Oliver Deane.
The company donated almost $40,000 to support the animal during its youth.
Part Time Rangers founders Oliver and William Deane.
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Mystery door-knocker with swastika found after police pursuit – Stuff.co.nz
Concerns were raised about a man with a swastika tattoo who was going door-to-door collecting money. When he saw police, he was less than charitable.
A man with a large swastika tattoo has been arrested after crashing while fleeing police.
A vehicle of interest was spotted by a police patrol on King Edward St, Dunedin, about 12pm on Tuesday, acting Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond said.
The driver stopped for police, but then took off and drove through a large car park at The Warehouse and Pak n Save in South Dunedin.
The fleeing driver travelled along Hillside Rd and surrounding streets, and clipped another vehicle on Andersons Bay Rd.
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Melania Trump slams Joe Biden, Democrats in first solo campaign stop in US presidential election – Stuff.co.nz
The US first lady defended her husband’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and denounced Joe Biden’s “socialist agenda”.
Melania Trump has lined up squarely with her husband on her first solo trip of the 2020 campaign, slamming Joe Biden, Democrats and the media as she pushed the US president’s re-election message in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
The first lady defended Donald Trumps record on Covid-19 even as he continues to play down the threat of a virus that has killed more than 226,000 Americans.
She sought to shift the blame to Democrats, who she said tried to put their own agendas ahead of the American…
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Marlon Samuels feud with Ben Stokes continues with crass post about cricket star’s wife – Stuff.co.nz
Cricket rivals first clashed in 2015, and now it’s turned ugly after Stokes’ jibes in an interview.
Former West Indies cricketer Marlon Samuels has responded to a jibe from England star Ben Stokes with a social media post labelled appalling by a former England captain.
Samuels took aim at Stokes in an expletive-laden Instagram post starting with the words: No white boy could diss me in the sports and no get back…. It continues what appears to be a sexual reference to Stokes wife as Samuels makes mention of his superior skin tone.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan wrote on Twitter: This…
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