This year, it's Baby Reindeer. Baby Reindeer is adapted from a one-man Edinburgh Fringe show of the same name and stars Scottish comedian Richard Gadd. Gadd first performed Baby Reindeer at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Telling her side of the story, she describes Baby Reindeer as a "work of fiction" and "hyperbole". Scottish National Party (SNP) MP John Nicolson is now asking Netflix to substantiate its comments about the woman who inspired the Martha character.

Labour's Chris Hipkins has outlined the party's vision to 2040 to a crowd of Auckland supported. In his speech, Hipkins envisioned returning to power in 2026, and then spending the next decade building the country that New Zealand can be. NZ Herald deputy political editor Thomas Coughlan says Labour's reputation for delivering on promises is still too low to be believable. LISTEN ABOVE

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has fronted an unapologetic defence of National's first months in power, its pace of change and commitment to tax relief. Speaking to party representatives, Luxon said the coalition had no intention of changing tack. Luxon told the audience New Zealanders had given the coalition "a pretty big mandate" to turn the country around. Photo: Samuel Rillstone / RNZ"We're not here to manage the status quo. Looking ahead to the 30 May Budget, Luxon said he was proud of what Finance Minister Nicola Willis had achieved.

Nicola Willis says she isn’t borrowing for tax cuts and has staked her job on delivering meaningful tax cuts alongside a cut in public spending to afford the $2.9billion Landlord tax break. Her tax cuts are about $15Billion. Their advice is an inheritance tax, a Capital Gains Tax – OR raise GST. A CGT and inheritance tax would damage the real estate pimps who own them, where as a rise in GST would hurt those that National voters despise the most – the poor. Treasury have advised it and Nicola has suggested more revenue sources but has been coy what those will be.

The case is due to be heard in court on Tuesday, when a judge will decide whether to press ahead with any of the indictments. Yet even if Scheffler is only hit with a traffic misdemeanour – that would likely amount to a fine – he will contest it. “They [the charges] will either be dropped or we will go to trial because Scottie didn’t do anything wrong,” Steve Romines, Scheffler’s attorney, told Golf Channel. “There had been a traffic fatality down the road and so there were different traffic directions going on and traffic control officers were advising different things,” he said. “Scottie was advised by one officer to go around the traffic and turn left into the facility.

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The dizzy path to Mixed Martial Arts’ mainstream success is inspiring a vicious form of bare-knuckle combat currently illegal in New Zealand. Peato says he ran bare-knuckle fights in Tauranga in December 2021 and early 2023, following a model developed in the United States, the United Kingdom and Thailand, where bare-knuckle fighting is legal. “Any bare-knuckle boxing, regular boxing, or wrestling contest must first receive a permit from police,” a police spokesman said. Russell Tangiwai says the rules of a bare-knuckle combat boxing match differ from typical boxing. Tangiwai said most fights ended with a knockout rather than by decision due to the nature of bare-knuckle fights.

Concerns are rising among Dunedin parents about the level of violence among youths in the city. She said police were able to identify the offender and he was referred to Youth Aid. Under New Zealand law, teenagers aged 14-17 who commit crimes are referred to Youth Aid or the Youth Court. It is one of three incidents of youth violence reported to Dunedin police in the space of a week. The teen was charged with assault and appeared in the Dunedin Youth Court.

The father of Australian rugby league player Payne Haas has been arrested in the Philippines and is accused of running enough drugs in Indonesia to qualify for the death penalty. Gregor Johann Haas was arrested in Cebu City on Wednesday and now faces extradition. An image of Gregor Johann Haas circulating in Indonesian media. Indonesian authorities said they had been hunting the 46-year-old since last December after police discovered five kilograms of crystal methamphetamine at an undisclosed location. In a post to Instagram, police also linked Haas to Mexico’s infamous Sinaloa drug cartel.

Photo: Getty ImagesIn the past I’ve sometimes got it wrong, the compliment. I just wanted to pay her a compliment." Someone should send her the second thing I read, a Time magazine piece about how to give good compliments. Girls learn to see a compliment in the same way as a calorie, to be wary of and to count carefully. It should be just as unacceptable to say awful things about ourselves as it is to say them about other people.

Kiwis stranded in New Caledonia are being assured by the Government that “significant work” is being done to get them home. Smoke rises during protests in Noumea, New Caledonia on May 15. “The situation in New Caledonia has been foremost in our thoughts,” the minister said late last night. “New Zealanders in New Caledonia are urged to register on SafeTravel to receive direct messages from consular officials. “An in-person meeting was held for a large group of New Zealanders in Noumea yesterday [Thursday, May 16] and further meetings are taking place today,” a spokesperson said.

Producer Susan Leonard remembers her father Ernie, a pioneer of Māori television, and how his legacy lives on in Pathfinders. My father was a fabulous man. His name was Ernie Leonard and he started in TV in the 1970s when it was still glamorous – when TVNZ made behind the ...

Queenstown’s St Joseph’s School’s massive annual book fair’s on again this Sunday, but students were already warming up for it with their Book Character Dress Up Day last week. From left are Emilia Shaw, 10, Gabriel Armstrong, 7, Lottie Reid, 6, and Jerusha Kulasiri, 11. As the name suggests, there’ll be piles of second-hand books for sale at the fair, which runs at the school’s Beetham St campus from 10am till 2pm. The last three days of this school week involve a ‘book sort’ in which books are placed in their category, principal Alan Grant says. Beyond reading matter there’ll be food, baking and plant stalls, games, raffles, a chocolate wheel and a silent auction.

Warehouse Group chief executive Nick Grayston is stepping down, effective immediately. Photo / FileThe Warehouse chief executive Nick Grayston is stepping down immediately with the company saying fresh energy was needed for a change in direction. “Leading The Warehouse Group has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. In announcing results for the half-year to January 28, The Warehouse Group said it would simplify more to focus on core brands. Total group sales were $1.633 billion, down 4.9 per cent on a year earlier.

Two people are due to appear in court after being caught allegedly drink-driving on Wednesday night. Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said a 41-year-old man recorded a breath alcohol level of 400mcg at 8.05pm at a police checkpoint in Taieri Rd. He was on a zero-alcohol licence after a recent drinking conviction and so he would be summoned to court. A 55-year-old man who had also been drinking at home recorded a breath alcohol level of 489mcg about 8.30pm and he was also summoned to court. Earlier in the evening, a 73-year-old man was issued an infringement notice after recording a breath alcohol level of 381mcg at 7.45pm.