World record holder Albert Jamie Walter will carry a suitcase full of 1440 page phone books all the way from Zurich, Switzerland for the first New Zealand edition of the Impossibility Challenger.

Bodywall, a New Zealand designed and manufactured health and fitness system is set to transform the way people look after themselves according to enthusiasts who have trialled the system.

A sailor and a weightlifter have won top honours at the Blues Sports Awards Dinner at the Albany campus.

Sailor Sam Meech was awarded Albany's sportsman of the year, while Chantal Lambrechs received the sportswoman of the year award.