Checkpoint for Monday 10 February 2025

5:47 PM.United Kingdom correspondent Adam Hollingworth spoke to Lisa Owen about a labour minister being sacked over a series of WhatsApp messages insulting fellow MPs, councillors and constituents, the… Read more Audio

5:28 PM.The injury list just keeps growing at the Hurricanes before the Super Rugby season has even kicked off with loose forward Devan Flanders the latest player on the casualty list. A number of New Zealand… Read more Audio

5:19 PM.Prison reform advocates are calling for the Corrections minister to increase prisoners pay, labelling the current pay rates of 20 to 60 cents an hour practically slave labour. Pay rates have remained… Read more Audio

5:19 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:17 PM.A military court had heard that a soldier was beaten so badly by a sergeant and a bombardier when they were in Hawaii on an international exercise that the soldier twice lost consciousness. It's… Read more Audio

5:13 PM.Pension incomes are set at about $520 for single people and just under $800 for couples. A Massey University report released last week found that a single retiree with a no-frills lifestyle would need… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.There were more than 340 cyber attacks on high value New Zealand targets in a 12 month period according to the government's cyber security agency. A third of them were likely carried out by hackers… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.ACT leader David Seymour is likely to be in hot water with the speaker after attempting to drive a historic Land Rover up Parliament's steps today. Mr Seymour was admiring the 77 year old vehicle… Read more Audio

4:44 PM."I was just an innocent bystander and then my life changed forever." Those are the feelings of an Auckland woman who was hit by an e-scooter which caused a severe brain injury. ACC said it's been… Read more Audio

4:43 PM.Two people are recovering after being hit by falling derbis from a building on Auckland's Queen Street this morning. Both pedestrians were injured and taken to a nearby medical centre. Reporter Victor… Read more Audio

4:29 PM.The Philadelphia Eagles have upset the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl - American football's showpiece event. The Eagles denied the Chiefs a historic third consecutive Super Bowl victory and… Read more Audio

4:23 PM.One man was swept off the rocks North of Bethells beach around 7:30pm last night, two others managed to get the injured and unconscious fisherman back on the rocks and one of them made it back to the… Read more Audio

4:14 PM.Efforts are underway in the Middle East to establish how the next phase of the Israel/Hamas ceasefire will be carried out. Just yesterday Israeli troops withdrew from the Netzarim corridor - a… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Surviving on mince and sausages, and wearing secondhand clothes. That's the plight some pensioners face as weekly expenses creep up and beyond the amount of money they have coming in. Even those… Read more Audio