Bayan Khadem is so angry he has been forced to close down his Bakers Delight store, he left town to calm his nerves.
After four years of struggling to meet what he claims are massive overheads, Mr Khadem last Monday closed Bakers Delight at Pakuranga Plaza, one of the country’s oldest shops in the bakery franchise.
He has levelled criticism at...
It’s the first year Colin Readings will be entering the Auckland Brit and Euro Classic Car Show, except he won’t be turning up with a car.
He’ll be showing his beloved BMW R69US motorcycle – a treasure he’s owned and looked after for the past fourteen years.
Built in 1969, the vintage shaft-drive BMW motorcycle fitted with a boxer twin engine...
Although their latest success in contesting the Australian Open finals in Melboune belies the truth, the success story of Serena Williams (35), sister Venus (36), Roger Federer (35) and Rafael Nadal (30) would suggest age has not wearied them.
Indeed they were often brilliant on their way to and throughout the singles finals in giving fans yet another nostalgic look...
Bucklands Beach Association Football Club has trials starting next week and its players and coaches have been gearing up for the upcoming season with a summer academy.
In 2016, the club appointed Munith Naidu as its new director of junior and youth coaching.
Mr Naidu has introduced coaching programmes across the grades and has recruited a team of coaches for the...
Prime Minister Bill English has announced a greater investment into New Zealand Police in the next four years.
The new $503 million Safer Communities package will be primarily based on targeting and catching offenders, preventing crime and reducing victimisation, and delivering a more responsive police service.
It includes a significant focus on increasing police attendance at home burglaries, seizing more assets...
Voting has begun for the Howick Local Board, Botany subdivision by-election and tonight voters will get a chance to ask questions of the seven candidates standing.
The by-election follows the resignation of local board member Lucy Schwaner and is expected to cost up to $104,000.
The Times is hosting a debate at Botany Library tonight, giving the candidates running in the...
When Malcolm Page finished with the seventh highest number of votes for the Botany subdivision in the October election, he moved on.
“You’re in these things to win, but I knew it was a tough race and I put it behind me,” the Northpark resident says.
“But when the by-election came along, which was very disappointing I have to say, I...
A local retailer is shocked and angry that two of his retail stores have been robbed four times in 20 days.
Raymond Fung, managing director of Mandarin Products, said burglars hit his retail shop at Sommerville Shopping Court on Meadowlands Drive, Howick as well as a shop at Newmarket Plaza in Newmarket.
Mr Fung, who has an office and factory at...
The Howick Village Business Association has got a busy year planned, with four town events happening before the end of April, and plenty more to come.
Grab your calendar, dust off a pen and make sure you’ve got these dates written down – it's entertainment you don’t want to miss!
Town and Country Day will be taking place on Saturday, February...
This week thousands of children in our local area went back to school for 2017.
I hope they all enjoy themselves and the new opportunities that are in front of them. I’m sure parents will be pleased to see the school year start again too.
Education is fundamental to the success of our younger generation. We want to equip them as...
Rising petrol margins have been the talk of the nation this week, and the discrepancies across East Auckland stations show some startling differences.
On January 31, prices displayed at 11 petrol stations in the Botany/Howick area were photographed by a Times reporter, with a 22.2 cent discrepancy across the board.
Along the Howick-Pakuranga highway, all petrol stations reported a similar figure...
Times reporter Scott Yeoman gets a tour of a privately-owned property near Whitford and looks at what's behind the stunning re-generation of native flora and fauna there.
We walk down a slight grassy decline, away from the house and garden and towards 4.5 acres of native bush, just as a plump kereru flies overhead, the noisy beating of its wings...
It seems that black is the new black.
Amongst the many blacked-out show vehicles at the recent 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detoroit, USA, was Ram’s imposing Ram Rebel Black.
Ram Rebel Black special edition package is offered with all available Rebel colours, adding black wheels, brush guard and theme-matched all-black interior.
“Adding the Rebel Black package to an already...
The fourth victim in last month’s fatal Flat Bush fire was laid to rest yesterday afternoon at the Manukau Memorial Gardens.
Refugee Council of New Zealand secretary Kaileshan “Kailesh” Thanabalasingham escaped the December 22 blaze and was being kept in an induced coma at Middlemore Hospital.
He passed away just before 7am on Friday morning due to pneumonia.
The 47-year-old escaped from...
Expect more All Blacks to join Aaron Cruden in chasing the big money abroad rather than battle for a starting spot in the New Zealand rugby test team.
Just as Nick Evans did so many years ago when heading off to England’s Harlequins rather than wait in the shadow of Dan Carter, Cruden, 28, has decided to shake off the...
