19 Aug 2010 4:06pm News:
National News

Police and family not giving up hope of finding missing boy

The parents of missing four-year-old Gisborne boy Lucas Ward are not giving up hope that their son will be found alive. Jessica and Damon Ward joined Inspector Sam Aberahama, Gisborne Police Area... More

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19 Aug 2010 8:28am News:
National News

Police Dive Squad continues Gisborne search for Lucas today

The search for missing four-year-old Lucas Ward continues in Gisborne today, with the police dive squad again searching the Waimata River. Searching continued until early evening yesterday, with... More

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18 Aug 2010 5:55pm News:
National News

Gisborne Police need help with sightings in search for missing boy

Sightings of children including a young boy in the Kaiti area of Gisborne late yesterday are vital in the search for Lucas Ward who has been missing for over 24 hours. The four-year-old disappeared... More

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18 Aug 2010 11:32am News:
National News

Police dive squad called into missing child search in Gisborne

The police dive squad is due in Gisborne today to help search for a four-year-old boy who went missing yesterday afternoon. Lucas Ward went missing at 3pm yesterday from his grandmother's home in... More

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18 Aug 2010 9:37am News:
National News

Missing people listed on new website

Police have today launched a Missing Persons website through the NZ Police main website. Although there has always been access to a page within the Police website, this revised site will now offer... More

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18 Aug 2010 8:34am News:
Central

Improving marine safety on the east coast

The unforgiving eastern coastline of Central District now has a vastly enhanced communications system to improve marine safety, and it will be officially launched this weekend in the culmination of... More

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17 Aug 2010 3:39pm News:
National News

Man found injured near Wairoa park

A Wairoa man is in Hawke's Bay Regional Hospital with serious head injuries after he was found lying injured near a park in the town this morning. Police and ambulance staff were called to the corner... More

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16 Aug 2010 4:35pm News:
National News

Police search for missing man in Russell, Northland

Police are continuing the search of a bay in Northland for a man who may have drowned after he went missing on Friday night. Earl Raison, aged 48 years, had been at the Russell Boating Club on Friday... More

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16 Aug 2010 1:18pm News:
National News

Information about bin vital to homicide investigation

The head of the Carmen Thomas homicide investigation, Detective Inspector Mark Benefield, says a recycling wheelie bin missing from Carmen's Ngaphui Rd home could be one of a number of vital links in... More

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