内容摘要："She went through two-and-a-half years of treatment and finished in February this year.

"She went through two-and-a-half years of treatment and finished in February this year.

Winston Peters said on Tuesday that he disagreed with Brownlee's ruling, Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reported.He added that he only had a problem with Aotearoa being used in Parliament, not of Māori in general, and that, if a question was addressed to him in future using the name, he would not answer.

The use of Māori in public has grown considerably across New Zealand in recent decades, following advocacy from indigenous leaders.A petition was launched in 2022 by the Māori Party, an official political party, to officially change the country's name to Aotearoa, which received more than 70,000 signatures."New Zealand is a Dutch name and has no connection to this whenua [land]. How many people in Aotearoa can even point to 'old' Zealand on a map?" Māori Party Co-leader Rawiri Waititi said at the time.

Since the current administration came into power in 2023, it has required that government departments prioritise their English names and communicate primarily in English, unless they are specifically related to Māori.Another of the coalition's members, the Act party, is also seeking to redefine the terms of New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, which has been

Emma is the strategies director of Hatton Garden Metals, a family-run gold dealership in London's Hatton Garden jewellery district, and this unprepossessing tub of bric-a-brac is a small sample of what they buy over the counter each day. It is, in effect, gold scrap, which will be melted down and recycled.

Also on the table, rather more elegantly presented in a suede-lined tray, is a selection of gold coins and bars. The largest bar is about the size and thickness of a mobile phone. It weighs a hefty 1kg, and it's worth about £80,000.Reeves said Labour's Budget would "deliver sustainable long-term growth, putting more money in people's pockets through increased investment and relentless reform."

Liberal Democrat treasury spokesperson, Daisy Cooper called on the government to reverse the national insurance tax hike on small businesses and scrap the business rates system.The CBI, which claims to represent 170,000 firms, said its survey based on responses of 899 firms between 25 November and 12 December, found private sector businesses across all industries expected a "steep decline in activity" in the first three months in 2025.

"Expectations are now at their weakest in over two years," said Alpesh Paleja, the CBI's interim deputy chief economist.A separate survey by the British Retail Consortium, which represents UK retailers ranging from Marks and Spencer to Tesco, suggested a "January spending squeeze on the horizon" for consumers.