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Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.
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Monday, 30 April 2018
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Evening Business for 30 April 2018
News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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Lydia Ko breaks 21 month title drought
30 Apr 2018After a winless and often frustrating 21 months, 21-year-old Ko won the Mediheal Championship in San Francisco in a sudden-death playoff against Australia's Minjee Lee. Video, Audio
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Primary school children taking methamphetamine to school
30 Apr 2018Methamphetamine has become so endemic in New Zealand there are now reports of primary-age children taking the drug to school. Video, Audio
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Clean-up job gets underway in flood-ravaged Ngongotaha
30 Apr 2018The heaviest rainfall in more than 50 years struck the region, north of Rotorua, yesterday, causing torrents of flood water more than a metre deep to rush through streets, flooding properties and… Read more Video, Audio
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Petrol price differences not uncommon - AA
Petrol companies need to be more transparent in how they set the price of fuel, because no one but those in the industry understand how petrol prices can differ so much between stations, Mark… Read more Video, Audio
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Petrol price differences: 'We're being rorted'
91 Unleaded petrol costs $2.17 a litre at BP in Paraparaumu, yet $1.99 40km north at the BP station in Levin. We asked drivers what they thought of the difference. Video, Audio
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Checkpoint with John Campbell, Monday 30th April 2018
30 Apr 2018Watch Monday's full programme here. Video
Friday, 27 April 2018
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Nats: petrol car levy will hurt the poor
27 Apr 2018Climate Change Minister James Shaw says the Government is weighing up the levy, saying it could be used to help offset the cost of electric vehicles and mitigate New Zealand's emissions. Video, Audio
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House that prisoners built now over the wire
27 Apr 2018A three bedroom house built by eight prison inmates as part of a trade training scheme was lifted over the prison walls in Rimutaka. Read more Video, Audio
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Over 114,000 sign petition to cancel water consents.
27 Apr 2018A petition presented to Canterbury Regional Council calls for unused consents for two water bottling plants to be revoked.( Video, Audio
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Cambridge crash driver sentenced to 6 and a half years
27 Apr 2018Cameron Thomas has returned to prison after being sentenced for the manslaughter of a friend killed in a high speed car crash in Cambridge. Read more Video, Audio
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Focus needed on community based mental health services
27 Apr 2018The six member inquiry heard from Police, DHBs, judges, mental health patients and community groups at its launch in Palmerston North. Read more Video, Audio
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About this programme
Checkpoint is RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme, tackling the national and international stories of the day.
The show airs weekdays fro4-6pm and is hosted by Lisa Owen.
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