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Checkpoint for Friday 26 November 2010
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Waatea News for 26 November 2010
6:46 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 26 November 2010
6:38 PM.Jane Patterson takes us through the week of the Pike River Mining tragedy. Audio
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Sports News for 26 November 2010
6:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Evening Business for 26 November 2010
6:22 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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The Chair of Pike River Mine on the 3rd explosion
6:12 PM.Pike River Mining's chairman John Dow is with us now with an update on the third explosion today. Audio
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Greymouth church service
6:11 PM.A service took place at St Patrick's Catholic Church for colleagues and families of the Pike River miners. Audio
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Third explosion confirmed at Pike River mine
6:08 PM.There's been a third explosion at the Pike River coal mine at about the same time of the first disastrous blast a week ago today. Audio
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One-million dollars worth of science prizes awarded in Auckland
5:57 PM.A teenager from Bluff, whose research prompted a change in council regulations, and an Auckland school teacher with a virtual classroom, have both been awarded science prizes worth tens of thousands… Read more Audio
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Estimated 600,000 deaths each year from passive smoking
5:50 PM.A new study by the World Health Organisation estimates passive smoking causes more than six hundred thousand deaths every year - that's one per cent of all deaths annually. Audio
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Waatea News for 26 November 2010
5:46 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Dog breaks its leg while hunting stoat on Kapiti Island
5:44 PM.A specialist tracking dog sent to Kapiti Island to sniff out a stoat has tumbled down a cliff and broken its leg while on the hunt. Audio
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Pike River Chairman confirms third explosion
5:40 PM.The Chairman of Pike River, John Dow, confirmed there had been yet another explosion at the mine a short time. Audio
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Future of Mackenzie Basin discussed at symposium
5:40 PM.An environmental symposium is being held in Twizel to look at the future of the Mackenzie Basin, as the region comes under pressure from more intensive farming. Audio
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Sports News for 26 November 2010
5:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Life sentence for murder of Raymond Piper
5:26 PM.A man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Raymond Piper on the Kapiti Coast in May this year. Audio
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Evening Business for 26 November 2010
5:22 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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SFO welcome prison sentence for accountant
5:18 PM.The Serious Fraud Office says an 18 month prison sentence handed out today to an accountant from a failed finance company is more than it dared hoped for and it sends a message to others it's… Read more Audio
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More from Radio New Zealand's reporters in Greymouth
5:15 PM.Our reporters Andrew McRae and Eric Frykberg are in Greymouth. Audio
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Police Minister meets with families of mine disaster victims
5:14 PM.Judith Collins talks about the meeting. Audio
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A minute's silence to remember the 29 Pike River Miners
5:10 PM.It's still unclear how long it may take to get the 29 men back to their families. Audio
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Another explosion at Pike River
5:08 PM.Almost exactly a week to the time of the first disastrous explosion. Laura Davis reports from Greymouth. Audio
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 26 November 2010
5:00 PM.The latest on Pike River's third explosion and the grieving continues while the recovery begins; SFO welcomes serious sentence for criminal accountant; life sentence for Raymond Piper's murderer and… Read more Audio