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Wednesday 16 November 2022
Youth crime ramps up in Richmond JO KENT Police are having issues with youth crime in Richmond with arson and road obstructions
causing havoc to locals. Helen Barnett, who lives on William Street, says her mailbox was set alight in broad daylight on Sunday at 3.15pm.
“Someone set fire to the free newspapers that were sticking out of our mailbox. Luckily, a passer-by stopped to help, and a neighbour put the fire out before
any damage was done.” Helen was in her back garden and heard her dog “going crazy” at the lady knocking on the front door. “She was trying to get me to get
some water to put the fire out. But by the time I had got a bucket of water and come outside to
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Matthew Bennett’s typographically accurate Lego map of the South Island attracted a lot of attention at the weekend’s Top of the South Brick Show in Hope. “I used over 100,000 bricks and it took me over six months to create.” The six by two metre build was constructed using 115 different sections which all came together on the day for the big reveal. “I don’t have a space big enough at home to see it all put together, so I plan everything by sections and layers to achieve the 1.150,000 scale structure.” Complete with a flag which marked out the show’s venue, Matthew says his love of creating Lego maps harks back to his childhood when he was given an atlas as a gift. “I’ve been into maps ever since.” Photo: Jo Kent.
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