The News

The Clarion Times Bugle has been VilleDale’s go-to source of news, opinion and pet advice ever since VilleDale’s three main sources of all that kind of stuff amalgamated a few years ago.

Always willing to embrace the new technology, just last week CBT waved goodbye to the hot lead letterpress machine and went fully online, as part of a co-partnership deal with the Weakly Whirled News, another leading source of things, in the hope that combining resources will save money and attract clicks.  We’ll see.

And in breaking news...

RWShed

Hushering in a New Era

Radio Woodshed goes live! Homespun values are back on the airwaves, changing the wireless landscape In an undertaking descrbed by some as a bold new initiative, a new radio station has taken to the airwaves, although really just the internet. Radio Woodshed has just started beaming out live 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from a real woodshed somewhere in a small town in ruralish urban New Zealand.

todayJanuary 26, 2025 5

RWShed

What? A year it’s been? The News in Briefs

As 2024 closes the drawer on inexorability, WWNews has pulled out all the stops to consider the big political events of the past 11 and a bit months. Firstly, the achievements of the Luxon-lead (LuPb2) Government:   Moving right along, the Government was nonetheless busy throughout the year, introducing bold new initiatives, axing old tired Labour initiatives and trying to ignore David Seymour’s increasingly desperate attempts to salvage enough dignity...

todayJanuary 6, 2025 4

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Government’s gang busting laws get underway. “They’re going gangbusters already!” says Minister

Less than a week into the Government’s bold new plan to rid the country of gangs, many of the targeted gangs have closed down, ceased operations and instructed their members to hand back all affiliated clothing and learn to code. “They’ve got the message,” Minister of Justice Paul Goldsmith probably said. “Just as I knew they would. That’s what happens when you come up against a government with a Plan.”...

todayJanuary 6, 2025 3

WWNews

Seymour claims victory, says supporters outnumbered protesters but turned up at wrong venue

“There’s a Parliament Buildings just outside Mataura,” the buoyant soon-to-be-Deputy-PM-for-a-few-days told WWNews. “And someone didn’t check Google Maps properly. There’ll be ructions, I can tell you.” Meanwhile, Mr Seymour is working on a new bill aimed at raising the eligibility age for NZ Super to 93, backdated to 1986. “The refunds will help fund essential things like the America’s Cup challenge and tax relief for impoverished property developers,” he explained....

todayJanuary 6, 2025 4

WWNews

Haka, Hikoi, heckled by hicks and hacks

As everyone in the world is now aware, the Deputy PM In Waiting and Minister of Symbolically Futile Gestures, David Seymour, finally got to introduce his Who’s In Charge, C’Mon Really, Work It Out bill into Parliament.  Seymour has already pointed out most people have misconstrued the actual translation of Te Tiriti and last week in the House proclaimed his bill would usher in a new error in race relations...

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