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CRUISE MARTINBOROUGH voted Jessica’s Living Room the Best Business in Martinborough with BP Service Station coming in second.

IT TAKES only four minutes to print the 2,500 copies of each edition of the Martinborough Star.

THE TEMPERATURE at the sun’s cor is fifteen million degrees centigrade

PRINCE Charles narrowly escaped death when skiing in the Swiss Alps in March 1988 . An avalanche swept away two of his party killing one narrowly missing the prince.

THE LAST Land rover Defender, number 2,016,333, has been produced at the Sohill factory which has been building Land Rovers since 1948. One Sohill employee , Tim Beckerton, has worked on the production line for forty years.

BRITISH Passports were written in French up until 1858.

“AGEING is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been” – David Bowie

OVER one hundred reporters are killed every year while reporting from wars and areas of unrest. A staggering total of 2,297 media people have died ‘on the job’ in the last twenty five years.

CHINESE travellers totalled 2.9 billion trips in going to their homes in the country or heading for vacations during the Spring Festival celebrations.

THE CINCINNATI Red Sox became the first professional baseball team in 1869. Winning 91 of the ninety two games they played that year.

ALPHABET, Google’s parent company, overtook Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Tuesday 2nd Feb.

INDIA produced twenty three million motor bikes in 2015.

RADON is one of the heaviest gasses. At a mass of 22.4 litres it weighs 222 gr, a like mass of steam weighs 18 gr and the lightest, hydrogen weighs only 2 gr for the same mass.

CERA (Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority) last year spent $1.1 million on internal public relations . Plus $1.6 million on external PR and media firms.
“IF YOU can’t dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with bull” – W C Field

AUSTRALIA’S population reached 24 million on February 16th. The increase being immigration rather than birth driven. Victoria has replaced Western Australia as the fastest growing State.
“ANYONE who believes in infinite growth … on a finite planet is either mad – or an economist”- David Attenborough

SINCE 2008 taxpayers have stumped up a total of $13.2 billion to keep Kiwi Rail running.