Residents of a New Zealand town were furious after vandals destroyed the nesting grounds of dotterels, an endangered bird ...

Beach hut owners have banded together in a desperate attempt to stop cabins worth a total of £640,000 being washed out to sea amid claims the council have abandoned them.

The man whose body was found on Bethells beach, Abhishek Arora, was amongst a group of swimmers who got into difficulty in the water at Piha on Tuesday evening.