27 NOVEMBER 2008 - Singapore Airlines will suspend all its flights to and from Bangkok until further notice due to the security situation, and a lack of operational service staff at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Wellington, Nov 27 NZPA - A young Taranaki man overtook vehicles at 130kmh, rammed a police car, drove straight at another police car, evaded road spikes and was almost forced off the road by a bus during a 30 minute police chase -- all with his two young children in the car.

27 November 2008 - Two high voltage power poles affected by the NZ Transport Agency works to signalise the Welcome Bay and Maungatapu roundabouts, will be repositioned this weekend.

Wellington, Nov 27 NZPA - A New Plymouth man was jailed yesterday for assaulting his ex-partner, threatening to kill her and holding her captive for nearly 16 hours.

27 November 2008 - Southern Cross Travel Insurance (owned and operated by Southern Cross Benefits Limited) has won both the small workplace category and the overall category in the Unlimited/JRA "Best Places to Work in New Zealand" awards.

27 NOVEMBER 2008 - Federated Farmers has welcomed release of The compliance status of dairy shed effluent discharges to land in the Canterbury region for the 2007/08 season, by Environment Canterbury (ECan).

Wellington, Nov 27 NZPA - Inappropriate emails have cost the former South Canterbury rugby development officer $2000.

In Timaru District Court yesterday, Stephen Craig Kotua, 29, of Timaru, pleaded guilty to three charges of misusing a telephone.

Wellington, Nov 27 NZPA - The Otago District Health Board would have saved about $14 million in IT-related services by costings provided by IBM for equivalent services, the High Court at Dunedin was told yesterday.

Wellington, Nov 27 NZPA - An English tramper who went missing in March last year probably either injured himself in a fall or had a medical problem, a coroner has found.

Bones found in the bush near Makarora in April have been confirmed as belonging to tramper Derek Neville Hawkins.

Wellington, Nov 27 NZPA - A man who served 18 months in jail for rape has been acquitted at a retrial in the High Court at Gisborne.

Joseph Quintin Donnelly, 43, was accused of raping a woman in an alleyway between Belfast Crescent and Cambridge Terrace on the night of June 17, 2004.