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Freedom camping restricted

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The freedom camping site at Collins Memorial Reserve on SH1 in Koromiko between Picton and Blenheim could be scrapped.

The controversial freedom camping spot at Koromiko, between Blenheim and Picton, could be scrapped under draft proposals by the Marlborough District Council.

It follows a four-month summer trial which increased the number of restricted freedom camping sites in Marlborough.

At a meeting of the council's assets and services committee on Tuesday the council rubber stamped a draft plan where freedom camping is prohibited or restricted.

The council proposed no freedom camping at Collins Memorial Reserve in Koromiko and along Freeths Rd in Koromiko, Picton foreshore, Bluegum Reserve in Rarangi and Penzance jetty car park and on Kamhi Rd.

Freedom camping could also be banned on Tunnicliff Reserve, The Parade Esplanade Reserve and Okiwi Bay Reserve, in Okiwi Bay and Seddon Domain.

However, freedom camping with restrictions is proposed at Blenheim's A&P Park, Picton's Waitohi Domain, the Blenheim Railway Station and Blenheim's Wynen St car park.

The draft will go out to public consultation and submissions will be heard at a hearing.

Council reserves and amenities manager Rosie Bartlett said more people were using non-self-contained vehicles.

Marlborough wanted to be seen as welcoming toward freedom campers in a way that didn't interfere with the community or cause damage to the environment, Bartlett said.

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Cassar-Daley shifts focus to Freedom Ride

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This year a lot of attention will be given to the centenary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli.

But country music star Troy Cassar-Daley wants to shed light on another significant moment in Australia's history - the Freedom Ride of 1965.

During the Freedom Ride, Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins and a group of students travelled into NSW country towns on a bus protesting for Aboriginal rights.

The Freedom Ride generated huge publicity at the time and exposed the racial segregation and discrimination suffered by Aboriginal people.

Two years later, a referendum on Aboriginal rights was held and was successful, leading to amendments made to the Australian constitution.

The amendments allowed Aboriginal people to be included in the national census and formally recognised them as Australian citizens.

"Freedom Ride was a special thing for me as an indigenous kid ... such an important issue and an important happening in indigenous history," Cassar-Daley told AAP.

The singer says he was blown away to learn as a kid that before the Freedom Ride indigenous Australians, including his own grandparents, couldn't vote.

"I was blown away with that. I didn't think that could happen in Australia. I didn't think there was segregation in Australia."

Now, 50 years later, Cassar-Daley is putting the story back out there, front and centre, with his ninth record titled Freedom Ride. It's a timely decision.

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After years in Cuban prison, sweet freedom

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Story highlights Rep. Van Hollen: Alan Gross became "a catalyst" for next chapter in U.S.-Cuba relations Gross has been a guest of the Obamas, got to meet Pope Francis since release from Cuba He's also been to the dentist, watched a D.C. snowfall and indulged in some good food

It turns out a lot more than most of the rest of us.

Gross, 65, has started to make up for the five years he spent imprisoned in Cuba by traveling abroad, attending the State of the Union address as a guest of the Obamas and last week meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican to personally thank him for his role in helping to win Gross' freedom.

After five years of being disconnected from the outside world, Gross now frequently posts on social media, writing of family reunions, eating the foods he longed for in prison and the reminders he experiences of his time in Cuba.

"I can't get away from Cuba," Gross wrote after hearing a Cuban song playing in an airport on his travels. While visiting Israel, he posted a photo of Cohiba cigars advertised for sale in a Tel Aviv tobacco shop.

In 2009, Gross was arrested by Cuban state security agents and eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison for importing banned communications equipment to the island.

Gross said he was merely helping the island's small Jewish community get online, but Cuban officials accused of him being part of a U.S. government plot to destabilize the island's single-party Communist government.

Cuba has highly restricted Internet access, and most people are not able to access the Web in their homes or on their phones.

On December 17, 2014, Gross was freed, along with three Cuban intelligence agents and a Cuban man convicted of spying for the United States. It was part of a deal between the Cuban and U.S. governments to reestablish diplomatic relations after five decades of Cold War animosity.

Gross, his wife, Judy, his attorney and three U.S. congressmen flew from Havana to his home state of Maryland aboard a U.S. military jet, one of the smaller versions of Air Force One used to transport President Barack Obama.

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Wade-O Radio producer D.Royul talks new album & freedom from addiction (DJ Wade-O Full Interview) – Video

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