Morning Report for Thursday 30 March 2017

6:00 AM.Wellington airport still closed because of fog, Locals help out stranded passengers at Wellington airport, CYF pinning all hopes on change to new Ministry for Vulnerable Children, More allegations of… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.A update from the team at RNZ sport. Audio

6:09 AM."Nobody's around and every now and then they will come past and give you a bottle of water if you're lucky." Frustration as plane passengers have to sleep in the Wellington airport terminal after fog… Read more Audio

6:15 AM.After 44 years of membership, Britain has formally notified the European Union that it is leaving. Overnight, the country's Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50 -- the exit clause of the… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:36 AM.It's still foggy in Wellington and that is preventing any flights in or out of the capital. And Dunedin also has fog shrouding its airport- and there are no flights to or from there. Audio

6:46 AM.Lucy Sandford-Reed, the executive officer at the Association of Social Workers, says a 2014 review shows a shortage of social workers is not new. "What I hear from my members is that very little has… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:19 AM.Wellingtonian Jeff Weir went to the airport last night to offer a bed to a couple of stranded passengers. "One's in the sleep out, one's in the lounge... We don't need to wait for an earthquake to… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The Government says vaping is 95 percent less harmful than smoking cigarettes, with associate Health Minister Nicky Wagner encouraging journalists to try it, as Joanna MacKenzie reports. Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:10 AM.Flights at Wellington Airport are starting to resume after more than one hundred were cancelled due to fog yesterday. The airport says one Air New Zealand flight has managed to land this morning, and… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.One of the passengers who have been stuck in Wellington is Vickie Davis of Ngatimoti near Nelson. She stepped up to help out some of the older passengers and those who needed a bit of extra help. "We… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.Just two days before Oranga Tamariki, the Ministry for Vulnerable Children, comes into existence, it's short of frontline social workers. Surprisingly it says it's still analysing data and can't yet… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The Children's Commissioner, Judge Andrew Becroft says for the new children's social welfare agency - Oranga Tamariki - is going to be well resourced and professional social work services. He says 1… Read more Audio

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

8:37 AM.The Health Ministry is strongly defending a decision that means people in their 50s must keep waiting to be screened for a bowel cancer, a major killer. Audio

8:39 AM.The Environmental Defence Society chief executive Gary Taylor explains why his organisation is welcoming the Productivity Commission's proposal to rewrite the Resource Management Act. Audio

8:44 AM."There is debris everywhere, there are signs down, trees across roads, trees across cars, trees across everything." Reporter Tessa Hardy is in Bowen where they are mopping up after Cyclone Debbie. Audio

8:50 AM.Matthew Elliott , the former chief executive of the successful Vote Leave campaign, says the 350 million pounds a week the campaign pledged to the NHS may still happen. Audio

8:53 AM.Nelson's Christ Church Cathedral needs millions of dollars worth of seismic strengthening. And tthe public might be asked to help raise the funds so the building can lift its earthquake rating and be… Read more Audio