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2252 days ago

What will you miss the most about the video store?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

Taranaki's only remaining video store is shutting up shop after 20 years. United Video, on Devon Street West in New Plymouth, rents thousands of DVDs out each year and has not seen a decline in rentals.

But the owner of six years Sam Bansal said it was too big a risk to renew the lease with… View more
Taranaki's only remaining video store is shutting up shop after 20 years. United Video, on Devon Street West in New Plymouth, rents thousands of DVDs out each year and has not seen a decline in rentals.

But the owner of six years Sam Bansal said it was too big a risk to renew the lease with a continuous changing nature to the way people consume DVDs. "If we renew the lease it goes for another three years. Three years is a little risk and we cannot take it," he said.

What are the good and bad things about DVD stores? Tell us below. Read more here

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2252 days ago

Forty people win Lotto First Division

Blanton Smith Reporter from Taranaki Daily News

They'll get $25,000 each. Do you think they're lucky or did they get ripped off from winning a much bigger prize? On another note, what would you do with the $25,000? There were two winning tickets bought in Taranaki.

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