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Topics - the salary bill at the Auckland Council has risen by $9 million dollars in the year to June - to $702 million. 1780 Auckland Council staff earn over $100,000. Would you pay $1,430 for a seat… Audio

Topics - Do you bite your nails? "Pathological groomers" - nail biters, skin pickers and hair pullers - are on the rise in number the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, will say… Audio

Topics - Joon Yun is a rich radiologist from Silicon Valley he's in charge of a lot of money as the head of Palo Alto Investors, and now there's the Palo Alto Longevity Prize for the first researcher… Audio

Topics - in Britain, but also in New Zealand for the same reasons, there are fewer and fewer pubs and more and more cafes. And yet we're not really drinking alcohol less or coffee more. Experts in dog… Audio

Topics - a study by Dr Tom Jackson at the University of Loughborough found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your thoughts after reading an e-mail. Are jeans fading? When and how often… Audio

Topics - There's been interesting research come out through the year on what walking does to you, not long distances like those advocated by those fans of Scottish independence the Proclaimers, but… Audio

Barack Obama says he will "degrade and destroy" ISIS, Dunedin applied a while ago to become a world literary destination - a UNESCO City of Literature but the Polish city of Krakow is objecting… Audio

Topics - new research from the University of California... younger blood can reverse many of the effects of ageing. The police have had this tech for a while, but 13 new cars that can detect stolen… Audio

Topics - science says, apparently, that every day you should leave work at two o'clock in the afternoon and go for a walk. The inquiry into Judith Collins. We discussed it quite a bit yesterday with… Audio

Topics - don't call me feisty, warns Downton Abbey actress Daisy Lewis. Goodbye Sir Owen Glenn. He's become disillusioned with New Zealand. He plans to close his foundation here. He's been driven out… Audio

Alcohol-related hospital admissions in Canterbury are climbing at a cost of about $80 million a year. Unruliness on planes. Audio

Topics - junk food may kill your appetite for anything healthy; this claim from the University of New South Wales. Len Brown wants total Council operating spending to drop by three billion dollars… Audio

Dame Trelise Cooper apologises "unreservedly" for any offence caused in a catwalk show featuring models wearing Native American headdress. The quarter-acre dream is still alive in Auckland… Audio

Topics - Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love contains the greatest guitar riff of all time according to a BBC Radio 2 poll. Loom bands are now being tested in the UK for harmful toxin levels. But Consumer… Audio

Topics- the thinking of writer Paul Ford is that manners and niceness are now at a premium, a premium you can cash in on. With 4 little words. Islamist militias are reported to have seized Tripoli… Audio

Topics - Would you pay $300 a year for an ad-free world-wide web? Miley Cyrus' forthcoming show in Auckland will contain porn, says Family First. The prevailing narrative is dairy will bounce back… Audio

Topics - at the Harvard Medical School it has been discovered why you tend to stay awake at night when you're older. You lose the switch in your brain that enables you to nod off. James Foley, the… Audio

Topics - Taylor Swift's new song 'Shake It Off' is under fire for 'perpetuating black stereotypes'. The latest economic data from the Treasury is providing the foundation for the Labour Party to again… Audio

Topics - the Institute for Economics and Peace report which we discussed the other day, shows the world is becoming less and less peaceful, and that tide turned in 2007 at the time of the Global… Audio

Topics - 'I still believe in you' is a Cliff Richard song that his fans are hoping to get to no. 1. It was a top 10 hit last time around, in the 1990s. They want to show support. "Let's fight back for… Audio

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Topics - two Hollywood greats have left us in quick succession this week. The New Zealand population's hit four and half million for the first time. The new National Population Estimates are out. More… Audio

Topics - a new study in Britain reveals what seems like a greater level of loneliness in society now. One person in 10 does not have a single close friend. Prisoners in our prisons are paying $10 for… Audio

Topics - someone who did wake up, get a gun and go driving, apparently, is a German man identified as Michael Harry K. German police allege that over five years, he fired more than 700 bullets at… Audio

Topics - it's hard to find a black night anymore. Maybe in the Mackenzie Country? Winston's two Wongs joke at the NZ First election campaign launch in Auckland. Winston says they find it funny in… Audio