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Checkpoint for Friday 6 August 2010
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Waatea News for 6 August 2010
6:55 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 6 August 2010
6:38 PM.A week after his former MP, Chris Carter, said Labour could not win next year's election with him as leader, Phil Goff is adamant he is the best person for the job. Audio
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Sports News for 6 August 2010
6:35 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Anna Scarlett on her return to netball
6:25 PM.The Silver Ferns play their first netball test of the year against Samoa tomorrow afternoon in Porirua. Audio
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Mild winter affects Briscoe Group sales
6:22 PM.Briscoe Group says sales are continuing to push ahead, despite a mild winter and tough trading conditions. Audio
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Lab workers' pay row with Auckland DHBs set to escalate
6:19 PM.A long-running pay dispute between hospital boards and lab workers is about to escalate. Audio
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Air NZ confident pilot will be found alive
6:15 PM.Air New Zealand is optimistic that one of its pilots, who's gone missing in Hong Kong, will be found alive. Audio
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First sign of election trouble in Solomon Islands
6:11 PM.There have been the first reports of trouble in the Solomon Islands general election with unhappy supporters of a losing candidate throwing stones and damaging a counting station in Temotu province. Audio
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Christchurch cooks up giant pavlova for charity
5:57 PM.A pavlova as big as a swimming pool, featuring the Bledisloe Cup as its centrepiece, has been whipped up in Christchurch ahead of tomorrow night's final. Audio
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New Yorkers itching to get rid of bedbugs
5:54 PM.New Yorkers are scratching their heads over how to deal with some small pests which have become a very big problem. Audio
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Weekend road deaths too high - police
5:50 PM.The police are bracing for another weekend of carnage on the roads. Audio
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Waatea News for 6 August 2010
5:46 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Casino denies gambler his $60 thousand windfall
5:43 PM.Internal Affairs is investigating why an Auckland casino withheld thousands of dollars in prize money from one of its gamblers this week. Audio
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Problem gambler jailed for stealing from treatment centre
5:40 PM.A problem gambler has been jailed for stealing money from a treatment centre for other addicts. Audio
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US begins flying emergency aid into flood-ravaged Pakistan
5:36 PM.The US has begun flying emergency aid into Pakistan, where the United Nations says four million people have been made homeless by the country's worst-ever floods. Audio
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Sports News for 6 August 2010
5:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Four deaths in devastating season at Mt Hutt
5:26 PM.A snowboarder has died at Mt Hutt - taking the number of deaths at the skifield to four during what management says has been a devastating season. Audio
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Evening Business for 6 August 2010
5:22 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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US representative attends Hiroshima commemoration
5:18 PM.In Japan, the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack has been marked in Hiroshima - and for the first time, the United States has sent a representative. Audio
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Police force at Whakatane station unreasonable, unjustified
5:14 PM.Sergeants Keith Parsons and Erle Busby, Constable John Mills and Senior Constable Bruce Laing were trying to move him to another cell after he refused to be fingerprinted. Audio
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More on today's march in Dunedin
5:10 PM.Glenda Alexander from the Nurses Organisation is one of the organisers of today's march. Audio
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Protestors fight to keep neurosurgeons in Dunedin
5:07 PM.More than ten thousand people marched up Dunedin's main street today and held hands around the city's hospital as part of the fight to stop their two neurosurgeons being shifted to Canterbury. Audio
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Checkpoint Choice for Friday 6 August 2010
5:00 PM.Protestors fight to keep neurosurgeons in Dunedin, More on today's march in Dunedin, Police force at Whakatane station unreasonable, US representative attends Hiroshima commemoration, Four deaths in… Read more Audio