Checkpoint

Meanwhile a Radio New Zealand journalist has had her accreditation to cover next week's Hobbit premiere revoked by the film-makers, who say she was writing too many negative stories. Audio

JRR Tolkien's descendents are accusing the Hobbit's movie producers of causing irreparable harm to the writers legacy and reputation and they're suing Warner Brothers, New Line Cinema and Saul Zaentz… Read more Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

A five-fold increase in suspected suicides by public hospital in-patients is being put down to a bad year, and not part of a trend. Audio

The principal of Gulf Harbour School John Petrie is with the children who'd been up Tongariro. Audio

Tony Hurst is a GNS volcanologist based at Avalon. Audio

The Department of Conservation's Ruapehu area manager Jonathan Maxwell is with us. Audio

Stewart Barclay is the director of Adrift Outdoors which does guided walks over the mountain. He headed straight up there as soon as heard there'd been an eruption. Audio

John Funnell from Helicopter Services Bay of Plenty was flying over the Mount Ruapehu when Tongariro erupted. Audio

Mt Tongariro has erupted again, sending more than a hundred school children on the alpine crossing fleeing and spewing an ash cloud three thousand metres above the national park. Audio

Mt Tongariro erupts again. 360 serious mistakes harmed hopsital patients in the past year and Hobbit movie producers accused of harming Tolkien legacy. Audio

The number of babies being born is at its lowest level in seven years, even as the number of people dying creeps up. Audio