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Cam Brown, the ANZ Young Farmers finalist from the Taranaki / Manawatu region.

Business savvy earns grant for local farmer

Cam Brown, a 30-year-old Eketahuna dairy farmer, has won a $15,000 AGMARDT Scholarship towards a career development programme after winning the AGMARDT Agri-business Challenge at the ANZ Young Farmers contest final on the weekend.

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Dance a big hit

Last Friday night the Stratford RSA Club was boogying to the Country Music Hall of Fame Group's music, supported by the RSA Resident Dance Band.

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Driver fights for life after narrowly avoiding decapitation

Driver fights for life after narrowly avoiding decapitation

A motorist was last night fighting for his life after narrowly avoiding decapitation when the van he was driving slammed into a one-way bridge in Hawkes Bay yesterday. The 27-year-old man, believed to be from Palmerston North, was in a critical condition in Hawke's Bay Hospital's intensive care unit. Hawke's Bay Today understands he suffered a broken jaw, serious head injuries and lacerations to his arm from the accident, which saw the driver's side of the van deeply embedded in a concrete abutment about 11.40am. "The van, belonging to a removal company was heading north on State Highway 50…

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