Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid was delighted to see that Bay of Plenty Cricket has brought back their oldest trophy in the Attrill Cup for competition, after gathering dust on a shelf...

Weather Eye with John Maunder The graph below shows the range of Tauranga's November rainfalls, from an extreme high of 357 mm in 1916 to a low of only 7 mm in 1984. The second wettest October was 1928, when 269 mm was recorded;...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch National Party supporters are fully immune to leadership changes, having had two jabs and now a booster shot, thanks to Chris Luxon. Substance rarely beats style when it comes to politics, which...

Tamati Coffey Labour List MP As we take the next step in our Covid-19 response plan, I know many people here in the Western Bay will be looking forward to a way of life that feels a bit more normal. Our shift to the orange setting...

Simon Bridges National Party MP simonbridges.co.nz  A couple of weeks back I accepted a petition from the Retirement Village Residents’ Association, on behalf of the more than 45,000 New Zealanders who live in retirement...

Winston Watusi Music Plus I’ve spent the week in the company of The Beatles; it has been most enjoyable. I’ve been wading through Mr Jackson’s epic look at a month in the life of the Fab Four, spending about eight...

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz A New Year Test Match, the visit of the Dutch team to engage in T20 combat with the Black Caps, and seven games in the ICC Women's World Cup provide a smorgasbord...

Weather Eye with John Maunder http://www.climate4you.com/Text/Climate4you One example of what is contained in the above website are the charts of Arctic and Antarctic surface air temperatures from January 2000 to September 2011. Each...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch  There’s a book called Mothership which has quite a good sub-plot in it. It is set in a huge ark ship 14,000km long which is transporting the remnants of humanity across space in search...

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP  It’s been a big couple of weeks in the Bay of Plenty, with Delta’s unwelcome and uninvited arrival. Our communities have responded by checking the locations of interest and going out...

Nigel Tutt Chief Executive of Priority One At Priority One we often get asked about Tauranga CBD and its prospects for the future. Generally these discussions don’t start off on a positive note - it’s no secret that...

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP Having been free of Covid-19 for such a long time in Tauranga, it’s disappointing to see community cases spread throughout our city. I hope that those who have tested positive...

Winston Watusi Music Plus  I thought I’d narrowed last week down to gigs that would definitely happen. Yeah right. The Legends Live show (December 4) is off - the latest in a long line. But finally I get the feeling...

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid doesn't often get on his soapbox to voice his opinions out loud - however a SunLive piece last week got him hot under the collar. The narrative...

Weather Eye with John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms' on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after...

Commision News & Views with Commission Chair Anne Tolley   For people in the Bay of Plenty, the Delta variant of Covid-19 has been ‘around the corner’ for some time. We’ve known it is coming. With cases...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Someone wrote in the other day querying if this column was written by myself or by ghost writers. Surely if I was a figment of others’ imaginations then I would know. It would be completely...

Simon Bridges National Party MP simonbridges.co.nz  Ordinarily, council elections would be due next year. Everywhere else in New Zealand will have them, but here in Tauranga Labour got rid of our council and inserted unelected...

Winston Watusi Music Plus Another day, another level change, another cancellation. Don’t you just love 2021? I must confess that, like pretty much everyone else, I didn’t really heed the experts last year when told...