Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 25 July 2014

Yes to the Holiday Highway, Puhoi-Warkworth: 'economic highway for the north', Gaza protests turn deadly, No flights into New Plymouth airport, Jail for giving guns to the Head Hunters gang, PM continuing to stand by Brownlee, Kaipara ratepayers must pay for sewage debts - High Court, Firms upbeat, despite higher interest rates and US says Russia firing over the border into Ukraine.