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What do you think the police spend on petrol?
The price of keeping the thin blue line strong is mounting at the petrol pump as the force looks to move away from fossil fuels.
Five years ago in the 2018/19 financial year, police spent $14,860,116 to purchase 9,492,945 litres of fuel, whereas in 2022/23 they spent $2.5 million more and got 773,079 litres less.
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Feed me and I will live, but give me a drink and I will die. What am I?
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Would you stay in the hotel when it's built?
Those working either in, or in the shadow of, Hamilton’s largest building are excited by the prospect of it being transformed into the city’s newest luxry hotel.
But they’ve got plenty of questions about how it will work.
The Pullman hotel will bring new life to the Government Life building initially opened in 1980.
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