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1700 to 1707 NEWS
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FILE-MISSING: The police and the Department of Corrections are growing increasingly worried at the continued absence of a top secret document on serious criminal offenders. The return of the document was promised last night. Eric Frykberg reports. PKG
CARPARK DEATH: The police investigating the fatal hit and run in a Manukau shopping centre carpark now have three men in custody. Joanne Wang died from head injuries inflicted as she attempted to stop a man from escaping in a vehicle with her stolen handbag. Here's Detective Inspector John Tims. PREREC
RUGBY-HOTEL: The Auckland police have revealed the allegations surrounding four members of the England rugby team are sexual, and could be as serious as rape. But the police also say the players said to be involved will not co-operate, which the players say is their right.Monique Devereux was at a news conference with the team. LIVE
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BUSINESS NEWS
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FIRE-FATAL:Children playing with matches and flat smoke alarm batteries are emerging as two of the likely reasons why a Whangarei house caught fire, killing a young boy earlier today. Fire investigator Craig Bain has spent the day at the scene -- he's with us now. LIVE
INVERCARGILL-GANGS: Tensions are high in Invercargill after a suspicious fire gutted the Road Knights gang headquarters. Armed police later stormed the Mongrel Mob building and arrested four men. Mayor Tim Shadbolt joins us now. LIVE
PETERS-PACIFIC: The Foreign Minister Winston Peters has ruffled the feathers of leaders from around the Pacific, by comparing Pacific Island men to parading peacocks. He told a select committee ithe lack of female parliamentarians in the Pacific is a great worry because women in these cultures do all the work. Leilani Momoisea filed this report. PKG
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17.30 HEADLINES
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PICTON- FATAL: Two people are dead and three others have been injured in a boating accident in Picton's Waikawa Bay. The police say a runabout collided with a stationary vessel.Joining us now is the deputy harbour master David Baker LIVE
BUDGET: Treasury documents show the government considered spending an extra 500 million dollars on tax cuts in this year's Budget but that would have pushed up government debt to 27 percent of Gross Domestic Product, and was deemed unaffordable. Our political reporter, Chris Bramwell, has been looking through the documents. PREREC
ZIMBABWE: With just over a week to go until the run-off presidential election in Zimbabwe, supporters of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change are facing increasing violence, and the death toll is mounting. Here's Peter Biles. PKG
POLICE-DEATH: The Police Force is mourning the loss of one of its most senior officers, Superintendent Steve Fitzgerald, who was killed as he was cycling home from work yesterday.
Superintendent Alan Boreham is a long-time friend and colleague of Steve Fitzgerald PREREC
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WAATEA NEWS
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CATHOLIC ABUSE: The defence has closed its case in the sex abuse trial of a Catholic clergyman. 73 year old St John of God Brother , Rodger Maloney, has been defending 23 charges of sexually abusing boys while he was in charge of Christchurch's Marylands School in the 1970s.Here's our reporter Shanna Crispin. PREREC
RUGBY-TASMAN: The Marlborough District Council may intervene to avert a financial crisis threatening the future of the Tasman Rugby Union. The combined Nelson Bays-Marlborough union is proposing to sell parts of Marlborough's Lansdowne Park to developers to deal with a crippling debt of nearly four million dollars. Geoff Moffett has been following the story. LIVE
ELECTRICITY-SAVINGS: The country's efforts to conserve electricity are working, following Sunday's launch of a campaign to save power. For an update on how the campaign's going, Patrick Strange, the convenor of the winter power group and the chief executive of Transpower, joins me now. LIVE