Checkpoint for Tuesday 19 February 2013

6:53 PM.Cost could be the major barrier to including boys as well as girls in a vaccination programme to prevent cervical cancer. Audio

6:49 PM.The Supreme Court has heard the Crown had a duty to fully explain what they were doing when they bought land and a riverbed from a hapu at the end of the nineteenth century; Official figures show… Read more Audio

6:44 PM.The head of the racing industry's disciplinary body, Kerry Hoggard has resigned after former ACT MP Stephen Franks criticised his appointment as a bad joke. Audio

6:39 PM.In Japan, victims of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster have been told they must pay back thousands of dollars of compensation they've been given. Audio

6:36 PM.The owner of an Auckland Security Company says despite six thefts in nine months at a roading construction site he considered it a low-risk workplace. Audio

6:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:22 PM.The mother of a teenager who almost died in a car crash was distressed to find she'd then been billed close to 14-hundred dollars by the Transport Agency. Audio

6:19 PM.News from the business sector. Audio

6:16 PM.An inquest has heard that in the days before a 13 year old runaway crashed a car and died, Child Youth and Family and the police were confused over who was responsible for finding him. Audio

6:08 PM.A search is on for forty or so Tongans that Immigration New Zealand estimates had their criminal records wiped to get into this country. Audio

5:50 PM.Opposition parties are calling on the Government to ditch its proposed deal with Sky City to build an international convention centre in Auckland. Audio

5:46 PM.The Supreme Court has heard the Crown had a duty to fully explain what they were doing when they bought land and a riverbed from a hapu at the end of the nineteenth century; Official figures show… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.The Education Minister, Hekia Parata, has been forced to defend the revised plan on closing and merging schools in Christchurch. Audio

5:40 PM.The Government's planning to force tobacco companies into plain packaging for cigarettes and other products, but a law change is entirely dependent on potential legal action in Australia. Audio

5:37 PM.Angry children, parents and teachers have been marching on the Ministry of Education's Christchurch office this afternoon. Audio

5:34 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:28 PM.Plans are underway for a new undersea cable for telephone and internet, linking Australia and New Zealand, just months after an earlier proposal collapsed for lack of support. Audio

5:26 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:22 PM.Three nephews of the MP Hone Harawira are facing charges of assaulting a 12-year-old boy. Audio

5:18 PM.The Tongan police said today their audit shows a total of 172 cases of criminals getting a clean bill of health in police letters used to secure a visitors visa - though it appears most of those were… Read more Audio

5:15 PM.Listening to that was the Greens co-leader, Metiria Turei, who last year asked for the deal to be investigated. Audio

5:07 PM.Immediately after the report's release, the Labour leader, David Shearer, questioned the Prime Minister, John Key, in Parliament about the treatment given to SkyCity in the tender process. Audio

5:00 PM.Sky City got preferential treatment to build the controversial convention centre. The search for forty Tongans in NZ whose criminal records were erased and three nephews of Hone Harawira are accused… Read more Audio