On Castle Howard, the guide said: “Stately homes may be two a penny in England but you’ll have to try pretty hard to find one as breathtakingly stately as Castle Howard.” The setting was used as the home of the fictitious …
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As planes are two-a-penny above South London i assumed light was on the tailplane of a jet airliner.
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A bout of freezing weather is set to cover the country from later today with a “very cold” southerly flow forecast to move up from the South Island, prompting warnings for farmers to move their stock to sheltered ground.
The southerly airstream is forecast to head north over Southland and Otago this afternoon and Canterbury and Marlborough this evening, the MetService said.
The MetService said snow levels should slowly rise up to over 1000m on Thursday evening, with snow showers expected to clear from most inland areas during the morning.
“Over the South Island, snow showers are expected to lower to 300 or 400 metres in many southern and eastern areas later today,” the agency said in a statement.
Wellington, Wairarapa and Manawatu are forecast to receive snow dumps as low as 500 metres early on Thursday morning.
The southerly change was set to cross over the Cook Strait around midnight tonight before blanketing the North Island on Thursday morning, with snow showers likely to be as low as 700 metres south from Taihape and Hawke’s Bay.
“However snow is likely to affect many higher roads and passes in the South Island later today and also the Desert Road, Napier Taupo road and Rimutaka Hill road during Thursday morning. .
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“The combination of cold temperatures and strong southerly winds in exposed areas may affect livestock, and farmers are advised to move any stock at risk to sheltered areas,” the MetService said
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A South Auckland baby was starved, left alone for hours and beaten before finally dying after her head was slammed against a hard surface, a high court jury has been told.
The trial for Azees Mahomed, 31,and his wife Tabbasum Mahomed, 26,began at the Auckland High Court earlier today.
Eleven-week old Tahani Mahomed died in Auckland’s Starship Hospital on New Years Day, 2008, after she arrived atMiddlemore Hospital in Otahuhu on December 28, 2007,with severe head injuries. He also faces two charges of grievous bodily harm – which relate to allegedly breaking his daughter’s leg and giving her a head injury so severe it caused brain damage between October 7 and December 26, 2007 – and one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life.
Azees Mahomed, 31, is charged with murdering Tahani. She does not face a murder charge.
Tabbasum Mahomed, 26, facesone charge of failing to provide the necessaries of life.
Both parents – who sat side by side in the dock – deny all charges.
Tahani had been born healthy and of a good weight on October 7, 2007.
In his opening statement, crown prosecutor Phillip Hamlin said the South African born couple had treated theiryoung daughterwith “systematic neglect and violence”.
“In 11 weeks, baby Tahani has been neglected and not fed. But, just over two months later, lay dead, Mr Hamlin said.
“In 11 weeks, baby Tahani has brain injury from the first injury she suffered. .
“In 11 weeks, baby Tahani was the victim of the second and fatal head injury,” Mr Hamlin told the jury.
“In 11 weeks, baby Tahani was the victim of the second and fatal head injury,” Mr Hamlin told the jury. Azees Mohamed was also responsible for pulling the baby’s left leg so hard it broke her shin bone.
The second blow to head had been of such violence the child never recovered, Mr Hamlin said.
The doctor who examined Tahani when she arrived at Middlemore Hospital described her as severely “malnourished”, estimating her weightto be only 4 kilograms.
When the parents finally took their daughter to hospital on December 28, 2007,she was gravely ill, the court heard.
The crown will call 50 witnesses for the trial which has been set down for three weeks.
Mr Hamlin said that, when the Mahomeds had arrived at the hospital, they had toldmedical staff “they could not understand how or why the baby was in such a critical condition”.
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Thejury of eight womanand four men has been selected to hear the case before Justice Rhys Harrison
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Winter is expected to have one last hurrah with snow forecast over much of the country until the weekend.
The MetService said strong cold winds were expected to spread snow showers down to 200 metres over Otago overnight, and over Banks Peninsula and the Kaikoura Coast down to 400 metres tomorrow morning. .
Snow showers should lower to about 400 metres on the eastern ranges of Wellington, 500 metres for the central North Island and Hawke’s Bay, and to about 600 metres over Gisborne tomorrow.
Up to 20cm could fall on the Catlins through to late Thursday morning.
Severe frosts were expected on sheltered basins and valleys in the South Island on Friday morning and again on Saturday.
Showers south of Napier should clear on Friday but rain and strong winds were expected in Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay on the weekend.
Motorists were warned to take care in icy conditions.
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Cold southerlies were expected over the North Island late on Thursday, and farmers were warned the wind, cold showers and snow could be stressful for newborn lambs and calves