Improve your confidence and balance by teaching you how to set and maintain a stable platform, giving you control of the bike for traction and obstacle absorption.

A fantastical three-metre-high yellow giraffe, a flock of fibreglass sheep and a gigantic aluminium fur seal are taking up temporary residence in Lower Hutt.

Visitors to Hutt City Council’s website can now search for cemetery records online from the Wainuiomata Garden of Remembrance and the new lawn section of Taita Cemetery.

Council has agreed to continue with the city’s graffiti vandalism rapid removal trial until 30 June 2012.

Criticial Mass opens at The Dowse, 25 February