Checkpoint for Wednesday 29 October 2014

5:00 PM.No charges for the boys who boasted about drunken underage sex. Auckland's plan to raise an extra twelve billion dollars to ease traffic-jams and John Banks goes to Court of Appeal. Audio

5:07 PM.A group of Auckland boys who boasted online in explicit detail how they got underage girls drunk and then had sex with them will not face any criminal charges. Audio

5:12 PM.Ron Mansfield is the lawyer for one of the young men investigated by the police. He's with us. Audio

5:17 PM.Aucklanders may have to pay for each motorway trip they take, and motorists nationwide could pay more for petrol under proposals to boost transport funding, mainly in Auckland. Audio

5:21 PM.The Transport Minister Simon Bridges is not convinced Aucklanders face dire traffic gridlock if they don't get the money and new projects the council wants. Audio

5:25 PM.The Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater has been given a third and final chance to prepare his defence in a privacy case. Audio

5:28 PM.The former MP, John Banks, has been at the Court of Appeal today in a bid to overturn his conviction for making a false electoral donation return. Audio

5:35 PM.New Zealand shares rose today, with the benchmark Top 50 Index hitting a fresh record during the day for the fourth trading day in a row. Audio

5:38 PM.A multi-sector advisory board is proposing a charge of up to two dollars eighty per motorway trip, or else rates and petrol taxes will have to go higher. Audio

5:44 PM.The Labour and Green Parties have accused the Government of favouring tax breaks for the wealthy over helping children out of poverty. Audio

5:51 PM.Medical specialists are warning that health outcomes for Maori will be setback if the government signs up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. They are demanding that the Government release details of… Read more Audio

5:54 PM.Back to our lead story - a group of teenage boys who boasted online about having sex with drunken girls, some of them under age, are not being charged. The Police have now closed their investigation… Read more Audio

6:07 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:12 PM.Mr Ellis, who was born in Britain, gave up his New Zealand citizenship decades ago to gain Australian citizenship. Audio

6:18 PM.No charges are being laid against a group of teenage boys who boasted online about having sex with drunken girls, some of them under age. Audio

6:21 PM.Campaigner against sexual violence Louise Nicholas is with us Audio

6:29 PM.The Government has outlined how it might go about changing the New Zealand flag, and what it would cost. Audio

6:36 PM.More details have emerged about an Australian SAS corporal who cut off the right hands of three dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Audio

6:40 PM.Villagers on Hawaii's Big Island are starting to evacuate as lava flow from the Kilauea Volcano threatens dozens of homes. Audio

6:44 PM.The police have put up a reward of 50-thousand dollars to try to close the case of a Dunedin woman missing for 12 years. Audio

6:48 PM.Medical specialists are warning that Maori health outcomes will suffer if the Government signs the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement; A Maori sovereignty group is questioning why nearly 26-million… Read more Audio

6:52 PM.Lawyers for a Malaysian opposition leader once again convicted of sodomy have told an appeal court there has been a miscarriage of justice. Audio

6:55 PM.The High Court's been told any decision it makes about the EQC repairing flood-prone properties in Christchurch will be too complex to make work. Audio