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MIKE HOSKING I’ve struggled with the Jacinda Ardern book.

Jonathan Janssen. Photo: Linda Robertson See previous match reports.

Dean Foxcroft. Photo: Peter McIntosh Former Otago captain Dean Foxcroft will suit up for Central Districts next summer.

Dunedin captain Oceana Campbell (left) and Alhambra-Union captain Bella Rewiri-Wharerau display the Women’s Championship Shield ahead of their clash at Forsyth Barr Stadium this afternoon. Photo: Peter McIntosh Being on the wrong side of the scoreboard will always add fuel to the fire.

Nick Frost is going from dragons to wizards. Actor Nick Frost is ready for the end of days, he tells Tim Lewis.

The māra kai, community garden, at Puketeraki Marae. Photos: supplied Food is a human right, but beyond that, is the right to food sovereignty.

Attendees at a Wastebusters SipNSew event making reusable produce bags. Photo: Wastebusters It’s time to raise your own cup to Plastic Free July again.

Ludovic Slimac looks on at the excavation of the Grotte de Mandrin. Photo: Gregoire Bernadi In 1957, my brother Richard and I travelled on our 59cc NSU mopeds from our home in Wimbledon to central France to spend our summer digging in the cave of Arcy-sur-Cure.

Photo: Ian Griffin There’s a bend in the shared pathway out on Otago Peninsula just before you round the corner to Broad Bay.

A Palestinian man shows blood stains on his palm after carrying people hurt while seeking aid from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Photo: Reuters Dunedin man Emir Hodzic survived a genocide.

Above: St Andrew’s Church, postcard by Muir and Moodie. Top: St Andrew’s Cookery Book, 12th edition, 1927. Published for the St Andrew’s Church Mission by the D.I.C., Dunedin. Printed by the Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Company Limited. Images: Toitu Otago Settlers Museum An early Dunedin recipe book told a story about the city’s inhabitants, Peter Read writes.

Photo: Observer AI, Botox, weight-loss drugs ... are we in danger of losing the wrinkles that give life its grit? asks Eva Wiseman.

Photo: ODT files See previous match reports.

Photo: ODT files See previous match reports.

Boil water notices have been issued for Ranfurly, Omakau and Ophir after recent rainfall and snowmelt made the towns' source water too turbid to treat effectively.

Prime Minister Chris Luxon. Photo: RNZ As he faces criticism at home for weakening ties with Beijing, Prime Minister Chris Luxon has booked a meeting with China President Xi Jinping next week.

Residents in Lyttelton near Christchurch are being evacuated after a large fire broke out in the township.

Photo: Facebook/Dave Dunlay Residents in Lyttelton near Christchurch are being evacuated after a large fire broke out in the township.