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Checkpoint for Friday 29 November 2019
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Alternative healers threaten reporters as Samoa measles epidemic worsens
5:10 PM.A controversial 'healer' in Samoa, who attacked a Checkpoint crew who tried to talk to him, has been shut down by authorities as the measles crisis escalates. Read more Video, Audio
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Lime scooters banned from Auckland, licence not renewed
5:20 PM.The ride is over for Lime scooters in Auckland. Auckland Council announced on Friday that Lime has just one week to pull its e-scooters from the city's streets, after revealing they would not be… Read more Audio
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Immigration NZ allows overstayers as it catches up on paperwork
5:25 PM.Immigration New Zealand is so behind its visa paperwork, it's told some immigrants they could overstay while their applications are processed.
It has apologised to more than 100 people who were left… Read more Audio
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Striking Auckland bus drivers to refuse passenger payments
5:27 PM.Auckland bus commuters could be in for a free ride next week as striking bus drivers refuse to accept payments.
The free fares will affect around half of Auckland's bus routes, after members of the… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 29 November 2019
5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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Lime insists it doesn't know reason for Auckland scooter ban
5:36 PM.Lime insists it has no real idea of why its scooters are being pulled from Auckland's streets.
The council has ordered the e-scooters be deactivated by midnight Monday.
At the same time it has… Read more Video, Audio
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Tui, Auckland's oldest pest-detection dog, retires
5:50 PM.It is retirement day for "Mrs Consistent" after practically a life time with her nose to the grind stone.
Tui is a Foxy-Jack-Russell-cross who sniffs out rats and mice that threaten native wildlife… Read more Video, Audio
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Samoa measles patients 'deteriorating before our eyes' - doctor
6:14 PM.In Samoa the death toll from the measles epidemic has risen by three overnight to 42.
Questions are now being raised about the role of the New Zealand government and whether help should have been… Read more Video, Audio
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Canterbury Crusaders keep name, but with new koru logo
6:23 PM.Same name, new logo - that's the decision from the Crusaders following their lengthy review into the team's branding after the March 15 terror attacks.
The former rugby union boss Steve Tew even came… Read more Video, Audio
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Health: Body mass index for kids potentially harmful - research
6:24 PM.Preschoolers are being wrongly labelled as overweight and obese, which could be setting them up for a fatter future.
New research published in the New Zealand Medical Journal criticises the use of… Read more Audio
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Bronze medal and chocolate keep NZ weightlifter going
6:25 PM.The disqualification of a teenage Thai weightlifter at the Youth Olympics has seen New Zealand's Kanah Andrews-Nahu promoted to bronze.
Supatchanin Khamhaeng won the super-heavyweight division for… Read more Audio