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Halswell, about 3am, when a large<br />

inside the store’s entrance. Fifteen<br />

“We have to face the problem<br />

THURSDAY, JULY <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>23<br />

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Thursday, <strong>July</strong> <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>23<br />

Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper<br />

Zephyr<br />

releases<br />

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single<br />

www.starnews.co.nz<br />

Stores<br />

targeted<br />

in crime<br />

spree<br />

CUTTS RD Mini Mart in Russley<br />

was raided during a smash and<br />

grab spree across the city early on<br />

Monday morning.<br />

Seven business were targeted,<br />

including stores in Halswell and<br />

Wigram.<br />

Cutts Rd Mini Mart owner<br />

Kinjan Shah heard a large “bang”<br />

at 6am and quickly discovered his<br />

shop had been hit.<br />

• By Briar Allen<br />

ZEPHYR: Lead singer Cleo Cavell and the band opening<br />

“I’m always reading the news<br />

A RISING young rock band<br />

is se to release its debut single<br />

tomorrow.<br />

Former and current students<br />

from Christchurch Boys’ High,<br />

Christchurch Girls’ High and<br />

Avonside Girls’ High Schools<br />

make up the band Zephyr.<br />

(She Ain’t Got No) Shame is the<br />

band’s first single since forming<br />

in <strong>20</strong>22. It follows their success at<br />

last year’s Rockquest, where they<br />

were third in the national final.<br />

Selwyn Sounds in March. PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN<br />

so I know it’s going to happen,<br />

they target each and every store,”<br />

he said.<br />

Shah ran to check his shop<br />

and found a car planted in the<br />

building’s entrance.<br />

Footage from the incident<br />

showed the car attempting to<br />

breach the shop entrance but<br />

being unable to.<br />

<strong>The</strong> break-in followed another<br />

at the MetroMart on Sparks Rd,<br />

Sounds music festival in March.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re, they performed to<br />

hole was smashed into the glass<br />

shop front and shards scattered<br />

the stage with renowned New<br />

Zealand musicians Sir Dave<br />

minutes later, another shop on<br />

Wigram Rd was hit.<br />

Dobbyn, Stellar, Mi-Sex and Gin<br />

Wigmore.<br />

• Turn to page 6<br />

Said Shah of the break-in at his<br />

Cutts Rd store: “<strong>The</strong> emotion of<br />

my business friends – we feel this<br />

problem but we know it’s going to<br />

happen.<br />

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