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Wednesday 6 April 2016
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Cyclists save man after heart attack Kate Russell Members from the Richmond Volunteer Fire Brigade happened to be “in the right place at the right time” on Saturday, saving the life of a cyclist who suffered a heart attack during a bike race near Picton. The 46 year old Christchurch man was competing in the Forrest GrapeRide cycling event with his teenage son, when he went into cardiac arrest. But by a stroke of luck, fireman Jeremy Talbot, and Tracey Parkes and Phillip
Reardon from St John, came across him and acted immediately. Jeremy says he was biking up the hill looking out for his wife, when he spotted her talking on the phone. “It turns out she was actually calling an ambulance,” he says. “When we got to him, we jumped in and started doing compressions and then the ambulance turned up three of four minutes after that. It couldn’t have been any better,” he says. “We had only just had CPR
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Phillip Reardon, Tracey Parkes and Jeremy Talbot combined to help save a fellow competitor's life during the Forrest GrapeRide in Marlborough over the weekend.
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Tasman mayor Richard Kempthorne under another sunny Richmond day. NIWA stats released last week show Richmond to be the country’s sunniest place. Photo: Andrew Board.
Richmond is NZ’s sunniest place
Richmond is the country’s sunniest place so far in 2016, beating its closest rival by 50 hours, according to data released by NIWA last week. Richmond leads the standings of the regularly reporting sunshine observation sites with 856 sun hours from January 1 to March 31. Next best is New Plymouth on 806, Appleby on 801, Blenheim on 764 and Takaka on 736. Nelson Airport also recorded 736
hours of sun and Whakatane is down to 675 hours. NIWA’s principal scientist and forecaster, Chris Brandolino, says the observation site at the Richmond Racecourse is new and is showing the town to be the country’s sunniest place. “It was installed in April last year and while Richmond is showing to be a sunny place I would say [the race for the sun title] is a marathon,
not a sprint.” Tasman mayor Richard Kempthorne says Richmond is booming and it’s “not surprising when we look at the weather”. “Richmond is just such a great place to be, it’s got a really nice natural environment and, as a result, we have huge growth with housing and infrastructure. That’s a challenge for the council, but it’s a good place to be.”
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