Each weekday The Front Page keeps you up to date with the biggest news in New Zealand. Today, two English kids are stuck in New Zealand after a fatal crash killed their mother, warnings of a deteriorating China-NZ relationship, the sinister side to Wellington’s wind and the Kiwi Christmas tradition that’s news to Kiwis. Hosted by Juliette Sivertsen.
Two English children will spend their Christmas stranded in New Zealand after a crash that killed one of their mothers and left the other with critical injuries.
Six-year-old Ben Sargent and his nine-year-old sister Olivia were holidaying with their mothers Kerry and Jules Sargent in October, when the family were involved in a head-on collision.
Kerry Sargent, 42, from Gloucester in England, was killed in the crash near Whangārei.
Her partner Jules was rushed to hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries.
While the children were not seriously injured in the crash, Jules’ injuries were deemed too serious for her to…
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