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Police investigating the deaths of two Chinese students in Hamilton are interviewing a man in relation to their deaths.
The body of a 20 year old man, with stab wounds, was discovered in the basement flat of a house on Tuesday night. And early this morning police found the body of a 20 year old woman in the boot of a car they had stopped on State Highway One near Ngaruawahia. Andrew McRae has been following events and joins me now. LIVE
Doctors say radiation treatment services for cervical cancer patients in the lower North Island must not be downgraded.
There is concern that plans for the new Wellington regional hospital do not include the installation of the latest equipment needed to provide brachytherapy treatment for women with cervical cancer. About 200 women a year [illegible] cervical cancer, and about half need this intensive form of radiation treatment nationally. About five cases a week are treated at Wellington hospital. The hospital says there will be room for the equipment but no decision has been made. A Wellington cancer specialist, Dr Dynes McConnell says the existing equipment is obsolete and without the upgrade women from the southern north island face having to travel to Hamilton.
CUT The chair of a national cancer treatment working party, Auckland oncologist John Childs says other hospitals will eventually face the same issue. He says a committee discussed it today. PREREC
The Australian transport company Toll Holdings has been meeting with the Government to discuss its interest in Tranz Rail. Toll Holdings' managing director Paul Little says his company remains interested in taking over Tranz Rail following Rail America's decision to withdraw its offer for the company. Mr Little says Toll isn't surprised about the withdrawal of the Rail America Bid. He told our Economics Correspondent Brent Edwards that there was a lot of speculation that the Rail America bid didn't sit well with Tranzrail and Toll needs to find out why that was. PREREC
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A court case in which Australia's Governor-General Peter Hollingworth was accused of rape has been dismissed but he's still under pressure to resign. The proceedings were brought by Rosemary Annie Jarman who had claimed that Doctor Hollingworth raped her at an Anglican church youth camp in the 1960s. But Mrs Jarman died last month and today the case was formally dismissed by the victorian Supreme Court after her family sought to abandon the action.
However, opposition parties are still demanding Doctor Hollingworth's resignation over the separate issue of his handling of child sex abuse allegations when he was archbishop of Brisbane. Dr Hollingworth has just made a public statement of his position Joining me now is our political correspondent in Canberra Kerry Anne Walsh. LIVE
The group that represents all the major airlines operating in New Zealand hopes a decision by the Commerce Minister will not lead to airport's being able to raise the fees they charge to airlines at will. The Minister, Lianne Dalziel, has announced that she will not place pricing controls on the country's three major airports as the costs would have outweighed the benefits of regulation. Nathan Mills reports. PKGE
Thirty years of occupation of a Marlborough Sounds Island by kakapo ended today, with the last five birds now in a new home in Fiordland. The birds have been shifted from Maud Island which has been used as a safe haven for the critically endangered species to another safe haven, Chalky Island.
I asked Paul Jansen from the Kakapo Recovery Programme why the birds needed to be moved. PREREC
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A 56-year old former Catholic Brother appeared in the Christchurch District Court today, charged with sexually abusing a male pupil at the Marylands school in the 1970s. Bernard Kevin McGrath entered no plea and has been remanded on bail to appear again in two weeks. Reporter Jocelyn Darling was there. LIVE
A review of how many residents should be moved during spraying flyovers in Auckland's Painted Apple moth spraying zone has been greeted by calls from local residents for more people to be moved. MAF believes that now the spray [illegible] is smaller, fewer people may need to be moved out of their homes to motels during spraying. The 90 million dollar aerial spraying programme to get rid of the moth started over a year ago, and many people claim the spray has detrimental affects on their health. Sally wenley reports PKGE
Four thousand Southland netball fans will tonight be loudly barracking for their team, the Southern Sting, hoping for a fifth straight title in the National Bank Netball Cup. The Sting is playing the Force from North Harbour in Auckland at Stadium Southland in Invercargill. It is the first time in 6 years a North Island team has made it to the finals. I asked Southern Sting coach Robyn Broughton (brought-in) what advice she has for the players. PREREC
I asked the Northern Force coach Yvonne Willering how the team's feeling going into tonight's game. PREREC
Farmers at this weeks national beef bull sales were cautious about paying high prices for cattle, as 180 of the country's premier bulls went under the auctioneer's hammer. Industry sources blame the summer drought, falling international beef prices and global uncertainity Jill Galloway went along to the six breed sales. PKGE
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