Familiar name: The rock is a particular type of granite known as the Petersburg Granite. It was forged deep beneath the Earth, when a mass of molten rock, known as magma, cooled and crystallized.

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Hastings District Council councillor Wendy Schollum says proposed amendments to the Litter Act would allow litter control officers to issue fines even if they don't catch dumpers in the act.

But the afternoon abruptly devolved into what Sheron Brown said was his daughter’s first experience of racism: a man throwing rocks at the family from shore as he screamed racial slurs at them ...

He was like, ‘yep, you’re using that, that’s perfect.’ He’s like, ‘do you have a name for it? We sat there trying to come up with a name and he came up with Pop Rocks. So it stuck ever since then him ...