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Checkpoint for Tuesday 31 August 2010
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 31 August 2010
5:00 PM.Taxpayers spend more than one-and-a-half-billion dollars to bail out South Canterbury Finance investors. Families appeal to radiographers to call off strike and an historic Auckland Hotel is on the… Read more Audio
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South Canterbury Finance placed in receivership
5:07 PM.Taxpayers have written out a cheque for more than one-and-a-half-billion dollars, after South Canterbury Finance was this morning placed into recievership. Audio
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South Canterbury Finance CEO says best deal for investors
5:13 PM.The Chief Executive of South Canterbury Finance, says today's news is good for the investors who have about two billion dollars tied up in the company. Audio
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Receivership decision puts Hubbards under stress
5:18 PM.The Hubbards themselves were at home in Timaru today. Reporter Monique Devereux spoke to Margaret Hubbard. Audio
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Evening Business News for 31 August 2010
5:20 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Families appeal to radiographers to call off strike
5:23 PM.The father of a seventeen-month old girl who's had her surgery cancelled at Auckland City Hospital is appealing to striking radiographers to call off their industrial action. Audio
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Historic Hotel Begins its Slow Journey to Temporary Home
5:28 PM.Engineers have begun the painstakingly slow process of shifting a historic hotel in central Auckland. Audio
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Evening Sports News for 31 August 2010
5:33 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio
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PM says SCF would have collapsed two years ago without scheme
5:37 PM.The Prime Minister says South Canterbury Finance would have collapsed two years ago if the retail deposit guarantee scheme had not been put in place. Audio
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Police bust school-boy crime ring
5:40 PM.The police in Hamilton have broken up a school-boy burglary ring that involved children as young as 11. Audio
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No clear election lead in Australia
5:46 PM.The election lead in Australia continues to see-saw with Labor currently having a slight edge over the Coalition. Audio
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Waatea News for 31 August 2010
5:52 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Deal done to finish Hercules upgrades
5:55 PM.The Government is to step in to finish work on the long-delayed project to upgrade the Airforce's aging fleet of Hercules aircraft. Audio
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Predictions of a warm and mild Spring
5:58 PM.It's the first day of Spring tomorrow and according to climate scientists at NIWA, it's going to be a good one. Audio
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1.5 bn taxpayer funds put into South Canterbury Finance
6:07 PM.Taxpayers have written out a cheque for more than one-and-a-half-billion dollars, to bail out South Canterbury Finance investors after company was placed in receivership. Audio
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Whanganui's council takes back city's port
6:13 PM.Whanganui's district council has seized back the city's port to end a festering legal battle and take control of harbour land. Audio
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University defends its handling of plagiarism allegation
6:19 PM.A lawyer for Victoria University has today defended the way it handled plagiarism accusations against a student in its design school. Audio
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Evening Business News for 31 August 2010
6:22 PM.News from the business sector. Audio
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Government to close Felix Donnelly College
6:26 PM.The government is shutting a South Auckland school for troubled children, which has failed to shake off four years of serious governance and staffing problems. Audio
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Evening Sports News for 31 August 2010
6:33 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio
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Better privacy protection for facebook generation
6:37 PM.A group of teenagers is spearheading a drive to better protect themsleves and their friends in the age of Facebook. Audio
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Te Whiti's greenstone club stolen from pa
6:40 PM.Investigators trying to track down a greenstone club stolen from a Taranaki pa, say whoever took it can return it no questions asked. Audio
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Waatea News for 31 August 2010
6:47 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Thumbs up for tertiary high school
6:53 PM.New Zealand's first tertiary high school opened this year. Audio