Morning Report for Monday 30 May 2011

8:56 AM.Our man in Melbourne brings news from the Lucky Country. Audio

8:53 AM.A team excavating a quarry in Shrewsbury has unearthed a road that they believe was not the brainchild of Roman invaders but rather of Iron Age Britons. Audio

8:50 AM.In Germany, poisonous cucumbers have been blamed for a disease outbreak that's killed ten people and infected hundreds more. Audio

8:48 AM.News from the Waatea team. Audio

8:44 AM.Trucking, bus and towing companies are being rated on their safety, with the scores eventually to be made public, but the trucking lobby says the provisional ratings from the new safety regime are… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The Category One listed building has stood since 1876, and until 1934, a ball was dropped from the stone tower mast to signal the time to ships in Lyttelton Harbour. This year it was severely damaged… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:28 AM.The filming of Mister Pip, the Booker Prize shortlisted novel by New Zealander Lloyd Jones, is due to begin today in Bougainville. Audio

8:23 AM.An historian is challenging new research which says Maori only began using physical punishment on their children once Europeans arrived in New Zealand. Audio

8:19 AM.Football's world governing body FIFA says there will be no investigation into the conduct of its president Sepp Blatter, despite claims he turned a blind eye to alleged corruption. Audio

8:15 AM.Former Auckland City Councillor, Aaron Bhatnagar, is seeking the National Party's nomination to stand against his old Citizens and Ratepayers ally John Banks for Act. Audio

8:09 AM.Criminal defence lawyers across the country are considering work to rule measures as a way of showing their opposition to the government's legal aid reforms. Audio

7:58 AM.What could be the country's oldest working post box is facing retirement, 112 years after its installation. Audio

7:54 AM.But who's voice is it? Audio

7:49 AM.US president, Barack Obama, has flown to the tornado hit town of Joplin, Missouri to attend a memorial service for those who died but some are complaining his presence now is nothing but a distraction… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:40 AM.A giant 'greenhouse' that will house 40 shops is one of the temporary buildings that will soon spring up, bringing life back into the now-desolate centre of Christchurch. Audio

7:38 AM.Japanese officials have admitted the Fukushima nuclear plant is not properly prepared for the tropical storm that's headed its way. Audio

7:28 AM.Thousands of Serbian ultra-Nationalists have staged an angry demonstration to condemn the arrest of ex-Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic. Audio

7:26 AM.The Act party's new candidate for Epsom, John Banks, joins the programme. Audio

7:23 AM.Kiri Ennis has been gauging reaction in Epsom. Audio

7:19 AM.Spending cuts in the Budget and a policy to partially sell state assets don't appear to have made any significant dent the National Party's popularity. Our political editor Brent Edwards has been… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Joining the programme for the latest on the Fifa scandal is the chief football writer for England's Daily Mirror newspaper, Martin Lipton. Audio

7:09 AM.Criminal defence lawyers across the country are uniting, in a groundswell of opposition to the Government's legal aid changes. Audio

6:47 AM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

6:39 AM.Fifa has provisionally suspended executive committee members Mohamed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner after allegations of bribery. Audio

6:37 AM.The Law Society's Canterbury-Westland branch president, Allister Davis, says the reforms are eroding the public's access to justice, not enhancing it while the Legal Services Agency says the public… Read more Audio

6:27 AM.News from the Waatea team. Audio

6:23 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:18 AM.The latest from the Pacific region. Audio

6:13 AM.A suspected Nato airstrike has killed 14 civilians, all women and children, in the Afghan province of Helmand. The county's president has given a final warning to Nato and the US but what does this… Read more Audio

6:11 AM.The Emeritus Professor of political studies at Auckland University, Barry Gustafson, told our reporter Kiri Ennis that John Banks' candidacy for the Act party could be a double-edged sword for… Read more Audio