This morning the quick reactions and vigilance of Corrections Officers resulted in them stopping a prisoner who tried to escape by climbing over an interior perimeter wall of Mt Eden Prison.

The alarm was raised just before 2.30pm by a passerby on Mangataipa Road.The fire has spread up a hillside and over a ridge. Firefighters have faced a westerly wind shift in the last hour causing the blaze to rapidly expand

Slapping huge increases on ACC levies for motorbikes is unjustified, unfair and divisive, Labour leader Phil Goff said today.

By Nanise NawalowaoFiji's Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has called on journalists to think outside the box and cover vital stories facing a nation.

It is a bit rich for Labour to today be protesting increases in ACC levies given it was its financial mismanagement that created the problem, ACC Minister Nick Smith says.