Morning Report for Wednesday 26 February 2014

8:57 AM.The historic home of New Zealand's most popular beer has been secured with a forty-million dollar upgrade. The Prime Minister John Key yesterday officially opened the redeveloped Speight's Brewery in… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.One of Radio Hauraki's founders, the journalist David Gapes, joins Morning Report. Audio

8:47 AM.That clip is from the New Zealand Movie 'Three Mile Limit ' which has won the best international film award at the Washington DC film festival. It recounts the creation of Radio Hauraki, a pirate… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.The Maori Council's Otautahi Committee says urban Maori living in the city need to be better represented in the rebuild; A teacher from Tolaga Bay is calling for a study into tamariki who've graduated… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.The Ellerslie International Flower Show opens in Christchurch today and organisers hope a record number of exhibit gardens and a new lay out will reverse the failure of last year's show. Audio

8:36 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:27 AM.After six years of negotiation, Queenstown Airport has reached an agreement about how to mitigate noise for residents living close to the runway. About 150 homes will benefit from insulation work… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Coal company Bathurst Resources says it will wait for the coal export market to pick up before it starts mining on the Denniston Plateau. Mining had been expected to begin this April and the delay… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.Organisations are being reassured that their funding won't be affected if they are publicly critical of Government legislation. Some non-governmental organisations say they won't put their names to… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.The trial of the Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius gets underway early next week - and South Africans will be able to watch it live. Pistorius is on trial for the shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.A review of the agencies which spend the bulk of Auckland ratepayers money has questioned whether two councillors should remain on the city's transport body. Audio

8:09 AM.Talks to reach an agreement on a Pacific-wide trade deal will drag on for at least a couple of months, with the next meeting of Trade Ministers not expected to take place until late April at the… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.The former editor of the News of the World has denied knowledge of the phone hacking of a murdered schoolgirl. The revelations that Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked by journalists while she was… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.The Maori Council says urban Maori living in Christchurch aren't getting a strong enough say in the rebuild. About two-thirds of all Maori who live in the city don't affiliate to the region's largest… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.New Zealand's Institute of Economic Research says the recession is over and the recovery is now fully underway. After nearly seven years of economic stagnation their quarterly predictions point to our… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.After much fanfare last year over the granting of permission for Bathurst Resources to open an open cast coal mine near Westport, the company yesterday announced it was delaying the project… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:37 AM.Ukraine's new leadership has delayed the formation of a unity government, as it struggles to keep the country together. The acting president, Olexander Turchynov, is holding meetings with law… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.The former immigration minister Tuariki John Delamere says if it were up to him he would deport a Tongan overstayer despite the conditions in her native Ha'apai. Morning Report revealed yesterday the… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.The Police in Tauranga are investigating video footage which show groups of young people fighting and intimidating members of the public at a local shopping mall. Audio

7:22 AM.An influential business group says it won't reconsider the position of its chair, despite suggestions that he stepped down from his position at a leading law firm amid suggestions of a misleading CV. Audio

7:18 AM.The latest efforts to conclude a Pacific-wide trade deal have failed. Trade ministers held four days of talks in Singapore to try to reach an agreement on the 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership, or… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.An Afghan interpreter, who wants to come to New Zealand, has escaped execution by the Taliban. The man worked for more than six years for New Zealand forces in Bamiyan and Bagram, and in Kabul. Audio

7:09 AM.The brother of Arthur Allan Thomas says New Zealand's newly-appointed police commissioner, Mike Bush, owes his brother a personal apology. Arthur Thomas spent nine years in jail for the 1970 murders… Read more Audio

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

6:38 AM.The Police Minister says a controversial comment made by the incoming Police Commissioner about one of his former colleagues, pales into insignificance against his years of service. Audio

6:28 AM.The Maori Council's Otautahi Committee says urban Maori living in the city need to be better represented in the rebuild; A teacher from Tolaga Bay is calling for a study into tamariki who've graduated… Read more Audio

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

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

6:09 AM.Trans Pacific Partnership talks have stalled despite promises of an imminent deal. Ministers from the 12 nations involved in the trade talks had signalled they were close to a deal as they began a… Read more Audio

6:00 AM.Brother: new Police Commissioner should apologise; Afghan interpreter waiting to come to NZ dodges death; TPP talks fail to conclude deal in Singapore; Business council not concerned about query over… Read more Audio