Northland School junior historians awarded UNESCO Living Heritage Award Nearly sixty years after a young New Zealand pilot died saving a village in WWII, a group of Wellington school children have won a Living Heritage Award for an online project that remembers his life and sacrifice.

An online history project initiated by the children of tiny Mahana Primary School - a rural school 30km from Nelson - has won a Living Heritage Taonga Tuku Iho Award for 2009.

Are Mangroves unwanted weeds, the "Gorse of the sea" or are they beautiful trees that attract native birds? Mangrove swamps are prevalent throughout Takapuna and yet local youngsters discovered that adults seemed divided over where they were a good or a bad thing.

Acclaimed eco-website Celsias is coming home with the launch of www.celsias.co.nz.

The Bizzone expo opened this morning with 600 exhibitors setting up 150 booths in Wellington's waterfront's TSB Arena. It is the largest business expo in New Zealand and organiser Sarah Trotman expects over 3000 businesspeople to visit looking for tips and tricks and new technology in business.