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Grey Power has spurned both major parties and wants its members to vote for one of three minor parties that support a rise in the pension. The 84,000-strong group is urging its members to give their party vote in this year’s election to Winston Peters’ New Zealand First, Peter Dunne’s United Future or Jim Anderton’s Progressives. All three parties support lifting superannuation for a married couple from the present 65 per cent of the average wage to at least 66 per cent. Grey Power president Graham Stairmand told the organisation’s annual conference in Rotorua yesterday that the country’s 500,000 elderly...

In a case of being caught red-handed - or at least caught with red marker in hand - Glenwood police cited a 72-year-old woman last week after she defaced an anti-Bush bumper sticker on a vehicle while the owner was inside and the engine was running. Patricia Sprague of Carbondale was issued a summons on a misdemeanor charge of criminal tampering and released after the alleged vandalism of the bumper sticker Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Roaring Fork Marketplace. If convicted, she could face fines of up to $1,000 or a year in jail. Janet Principe, the...