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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

North Otago farmer Jane Smith says she likes to “play the ball, not the man,” but when it comes to Environment Minister David Parker and his freshwater reforms – she’s willing to make an exception. “David Parker’s actually made this very personal, he’s on a personal crusade,” she

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LIVE: Multi-party Leaders’ Debate on 1 News

LIVE: Multi-party Leaders’ Debate on 1 News

The country’s minor parties will face off in TVNZ’s multi-party debate at 7 pm tonight on channel one. The multi-party debate will be streamed LIVE on TVNZ1 and the 1 NEWS website, as well as the 1 NEWS Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages, from 7 pm.

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The BFD Backchat

The BFD Backchat

Good evening, welcome to Backchat. On Backchat, you are free to share your own stories, discuss other news or catch up with friends. To participate you’ll need to sign up for a Disqus account which is free, quick, and easy. On posts that are not articles like this one,

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Talk about old news! The NZ Herald publishes an article from 2001! The BFD Stuff up of the day. Source: NZ Herald If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Laughter Is the Best Medicine

Laughter Is the Best Medicine

This regular daily post is the place to joke about the Kung Flu and banish negative thoughts. Let’s take it one day at a time dear readers and keep our spirits high. We will support each other through this.

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Election 2020: Campaign Roundup
NZ

Election 2020: Campaign Roundup

Now that we are into the election campaign proper I am replacing Political corner (which only looked at one party at a time) with a regular snapshot of electioneering across the board on Social Media. National Party Labour Party NZ First Green Party ACT Party Advance NZ New Conservative Maori

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View From Your Window
NZ

View From Your Window

If fans of this series would like it to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was a view of the Hurunui River and beyond. The main road you can see is State Highway 7.

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The BFD Puzzle Post: Codecracker, Crossword, Sudoku

The BFD Puzzle Post: Codecracker, Crossword, Sudoku

* Daily Codecracker * Daily Crossword * Daily Sudoku Welcome to our Daily puzzles. Readers requested daily puzzles so we have sourced three of them for your enjoyment. They are available for readers who have a bronze level subscription package and above with The BFD. Cancel your newspaper subscription as your final remaining

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round life buoy
NZ

Need Help to Change or to Update Your Subscription? Read This

If your subscription has not automatically renewed it may be… * because you hadn’t ticked for it to automatically renew when you set it up * because your credit card has expired * because you have removed your credit card details from Paypal. * because of insufficient funds If you want to update

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General Debate

The BFD General Debate

Good morning, welcome to our daily General Debate. Our evening General debate is called Backchat and will start at 6 pm. On General debate, you are encouraged as a commenter to share your own stories, discuss other news, bring NEW news, catch up with friends or make new friends with

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

pic.twitter.com/kQqDV7pulR — Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 6, 2020 Photo credit: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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The BFD Backchat

The BFD Backchat

Good evening, welcome to Backchat. On Backchat, you are free to share your own stories, discuss other news or catch up with friends. To participate you’ll need to sign up for a Disqus account which is free, quick, and easy. On posts that are not articles like this one,

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

I’m guessing they are meaning Warrant of fitness as that is what the whole article is about, and it’s scattered throughout, but hey, why not spell it phonetically? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.

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Laughter Is the Best Medicine

Laughter Is the Best Medicine

This regular daily post is the place to joke about the Kung Flu and banish negative thoughts. Let’s take it one day at a time dear readers and keep our spirits high. We will support each other through this.

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View From Your Window
NZ

View From Your Window

If fans of this series would like it to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s competition photo was a view of the Kate Valley Landfill, taken south of Waipara, heading north, looking east and the

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