20 years ago from the Flagstaff files

• A $1.5 million package to buy the Devonport Cinema and reopen it has been knocked back by its owners, raising fears it will be bought by a developer.

• A workshop for councillors on proposals to stop boats dumping sewage in the Waitemata Harbour will be held by Auckland Regional Council.

Murray Inglis arrived at The Flea on Devonport Wharf seven years ago, after he retired from his last job at Solid Gold FM. He had been around the radio world and

Inglis recovered in a respite home. “Then one day I was driving along Tamaki Drive and heard this radio station. I thought that’s Mike Baker’s station and they are not bad actually,” he says. Baker had died in 2009. Inglis called station owner John Grant and offered to volunteer. “And they said they’d love to have me,” he says. Soon, he liked coming to Devonport so much that he moved from St Heliers to Cheltenham. Inglis now works at The Flea almost full time. “Generally I get there about midday, get the music together, read everything on social media, tweet, have a coffee and chat to some of the people around the wharf,” he says.

• A $10-haircut bar opens in Belmont.

• Devonport takeaway Catch 22 is forced to put up a ‘Gone Fishin’ sign after a car ploughed into its Victoria Rd premises.

• Lorenzo Pradel (16) wins the Best Saxophonist award at the Tauranga Jazz Festival.

• Police make little progress finding who shot Bubble the cat.

Most Flea programmes are pre-recorded,

• More than 30 sparrows have been poisoned in the Calliope Rd area.

• North Shore City Council rejects an application from Vodafone to build a cell-site tower at 165 Bayswater Ave. Vodafone indicates it will appeal.

• A three-double-bedroom home in Belmont is on the market for $392,000, and a two-bedroom unit in Devonport listed at $239,000.

• New Zealand’s best rhythmic gymnast, 16-year-old Alex Kirichai, enrols at Takapuna Grammar School after arriving from Ukraine.

• Devonport Cars celebrates selling 900 vehicles to locals

• Vandals attack the dragon-seat sculpture at Ngataringa Park.

• Devonport Community House coordinator Anne Hickman departs after five years in the role. She is replaced by Joy Gibson.

• Paul Snow-Hansen (12) is off to the World Optimist Championships in Spain.

• Wakatere Boating Club’s Grant Bourke and Luke Yarnton place second in the Sunburst Nationals.

• Devonport’s new Black Cap Richard Jones is the Flagstaff interview subject.