The Star: May 04, 2017

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Thursday May 4 2017
All you need to know about the Lions tour
A MONTH out from the British
and Irish Lions’ first game, Star
Media has launched its allnew
Rugby News guide to the
punishing five-week tour of New
Zealand.
The Lions Tour Special
Collectors’ Edition is crammed
with match guides, everything you
need to know about the tourists
(and probably a fair bit you didn’t
need to know, too), as well as
expert analysis from former All
Blacks Justin Marshall, Ian Jones
and Craig Dowd.
It’s packed with attitude from
trusted voices.
•From page 1
“The awful thing about this
programme is it shows some
benefit to suicide. The sad thing
about suicide is we don’t get to
come back and say I told you so,”
Mr Hill said.
The letter to parents said as
“teenagers will often do the
opposite of what we ask”, it was
important to
talk to young
people about
some of the
themes in an
“open discussion.”
Christchurch
Girls’
High School
principal
Pauline Duthie said it also sent
an email to parents.
It urged them to check with
their daughters about the show
and its important issues, if they
had seen it, she said.
She said it was harder to monitor,
given it could be watched
online.
But Shirley Boys’ High School
headmaster John Laurenson said:
“It’s a created issue, not a real
issue.”
It comes after a recently
When Phil Gifford asks Colin
Meads for the secrets to the All
Blacks’ success against the tourists
– they’ve lost only one series
– the great man whispers the
name of the Lions captain they
always viewed as a weakness on
the field.
Discover why World Cupwinning
coach Sir Graham
Henry reckons he was not the
right choice to coach the Lions
in 2001, while Steve Hansen is
preparing his side to face what
he considers to be the strongest
Lions side sent down under.
And there’s just enough space
released study, Young New Zealanders
Viewing Sexual Violence,
raised concerns some television
shows featuring violence desensitised
youth to it. It looked
at episodes of Criminal Minds,
Orange is the New Black and The
Vampire Diaries.
START, a Christchurch
service for abused children, took
part.
Manager Maggy Tai Rakena
said it was concerning how many
explicit scenes were depicted in
popular shows.
She said it could de-sensitise
youth to violence, and many
for England’s “Aussie Eddie”
Jones to have a rant about the
Kiwis pulling all the strings in
world rugby. With seven NZ
coaches at the past World Cup,
he’s probably not far off the mark.
We’ve even got one experienced
New Zealand sportswriter
tipping the Lions to win the
series.
All this wrapped up in 148
pages that honours a man who
played against the touring British
Isles in 1959 and helped shaped
us as a nation – Footrot Flats’
creator Murray Ball.
•More information, page 30
parents may not even know their
kids were watching it.
“There is no doubt that pornography
and sexually explicit stuff is
causing problems for the people
we see.”
Linwood College principal
Richard Edmundson said the
school’s guidance counselling
team sent an email to all staff
about 13 Reasons Why.
“My particular concern is that
it’s making something which can
appear to glamorise and normalise
something.”
He said the show could not be
ignored.
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‘Revenge fantasy’ series warning
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Bruise Brothers
When Jerry and
Sione rattled
Lions ribs
WARREN GATLAND
Guiding the enemy
GRAhAM hENRY
I should never have
coached the Lions
STEVE hANSEN
Tourists the best for
a long, long time
Phil Gifford
Colin Meads’
secrets of All
Black success
CONTROVERSIAL:
Christchurch
principals have
warned parents
and staff about
hugely popular
series, 13 Reasons
Why.
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In Brief
CAMPAIGNER DIES
Disability sector campaigner
Alexia Pickering passed away
last Thursday, aged 87. She was
born with spina bifida, and
was a tireless campaigner in
the disability sector, including
introducing the idea of accessible
parking spaces initially trialled
in Christchurch. In 1996 she was
made a member of the Queen’s
Service Order for services to
the community, and in 2005,
was made a Companion of the
New Zealand Order of Merit
for her services to people with
disabilities. Her late husband,
Neville Pickering was a Labour
MP, before being a city councillor,
and mayor of Christchurch from
1971-1974.
NURSES FIND JOBS
More Christchurch nursing
students have found jobs this
year than anywhere else in the
country. Of the 109 Ara Institute
of Canterbury nursing students
who graduated last year, 95 per
cent found work as nurses. The
national average nursing graduate
employment rate was 73 per cent.
WALKING TRACK SAFE
Geotechnical engineers and
abseilers spent yesterday morning
trying to make a rocky bluff above
Dyers Pass Rd and the Harry Ell
walking track safe. Abseilers used
a crowbar to pry loose an unstable
boulder. It had come lose because
of the water dropped on it during
the aerial assault on the Port Hills
fire.
APPLICATION REVISED
A revised application for a
controversial bottle store on
Trafford St has now been
submitted to the city council. A
hearing was set for the end of
March, for a bottle store at 2A
Trafford St, but it was withdrawn
days before because the applicant
Sarmarth Rajeshkumar
Limbachiya wanted to double the
size, with shorter opening hours.
It has now been publicly notified.
Residents are still vowing to fight
the application.