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Water leaks around BCM anger residents
BUFFALO City residents are furious with the municipality for enforcing punitive water tariffs when public water taps around East London have been leaking for years.

‘We weren’t notified about tariffs hike’
BUFFALO City residents have spoken out against the Buffalo City Municipality’s new punitive water tariffs system, that could see them paying thousands of rands a month.

Teachers told to resume their classes
CLASSES at troubled Greenpoint Senior Secondary School resumed yesterday after discussions with Department of Education officials last week.

Curses and cockroaches
A FAMILY is refusing to pay the full fee charged by an East London beachfront restaurant after what they claimed was a bungled wedding reception last year.

TAC closes up its East London offices
DWINDLING donor funds have forced the East London office of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) to close.

Train to get a smart(ie) new look
EAST London’s Smartie Train, which faced being permanently retired, has been saved from its financial troubles for at least another four years.

Real People’s strong start to 2010
QUICK off the starting blocks, Real People has started 2010 with a bang having secured a R200 million investment from a Norwegian company.

Police raid closes EL entertainment venues
TWO entertainment venues remained closed for business in East London yesterday after Buffalo City Municipality officials conducted raids over the weekend.

Matric pupil hurt at her desk as window falls in
A GRADE 12 Peddie pupil had to receive stitches after a window pane fell out of her school classroom and cut her face.

Cop convicted of parking rage murder
AN ALIWAL North policeman was yesterday convicted of murdering a man outside one of the town’s pubs in January last year after an argument over a parking spot.

Want to win PowerBall? Spend R85m
THE only sure-fire way of winning a whopping R80 million tonight in South Africa’s richest ever PowerBall Lotto is to spend R85 million. That would buy all 24.5 million number options.

ID parade for suspect in sports field rapes
POLICE have arrested a King William’s Town man they suspect may be the serial rapist they have been hunting .

Heatwave warning: Discomfort index at 105
SCHOOLS in the Eastern Cape cancelled sports yesterday as soaring temperature and humidity levels across the province led to a heatwave warning being issued by the South African Weather Service.

Tourism is under threat in dry, crumbling Coffee Bay
CRUMBLING infrastructure and a lack of service delivery is threatening tourism in a small seaside Transkei village.

Chicago here we come
STIRLING High School this year presents one of Broadway’s most famous musicals, Chicago, with a talented cast of more than 70 singers, dancers, actors and a live band.

Old values protect the weak
WE ARE called upon to create a culture that says no to violence against women. As leaders of indigenous African communities we are only too keen to be part of such a call.

 
 
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Row over topless tobogganing race divides German ski resort
PLANS to hold a topless tobogganing competition in a German ski resort sparked a row on Sunday.
 
 
 
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