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- John Key slams claims NZ manufacturing is in crisis
- Wellington will be renamed ‘The Middle of Middle-earth’ in honour of the Hobbit premiere
- Usain Bolt in a whirlwind visit to Auckland
- FBI investigating the remnants of a roadside bomb which killed Kiwi soldiers
- New probes into fatal helicopter crash on Anzac Day 2010
10.06pm Check out the
crowd-pleasing acts from episode four of
New Zealand’s Got Talent.
9.38pm Ma’a Nonu is weighing up his options as
foreign clubs come knocking.
9.23pm A dietitian says sports drinks such as
Gatorade are
not good to drink everyday,
despite claims by
Bolt today that they are
“good for everyone”.
9.05pm Hitmaker
Rod Stewart has revealed he was
“extremely broken” when Kiwi
Rachel Hunter left him.
8.54pm US presidential candidate
Mitt Romney is to detail a more
aggressive policy towards the Middle East
in a speech tomorrow.
8.40pm A roadside bomb that
killed three New Zealand soldiers in Afghanistan could have used the latest in insurgent tactics which makes explosives almost impossible to detect,
an expert says
.
8.30pm More than 20
Maori and Moriori remains have been
repatriated to New Zealand
after years of negotiations with Australian museums.
8.10pm New Zealand shares have risen to a
four-and-a-half year high today
, as investors were drawn to stocks with relatively appealing dividend yields.
7.55pm Foreign Affairs Minister
Murray McCully will travel to Malaysia and Indonesia this week to attend the
10th anniversary commemorations of the Bali bombing.
7.30pm Two investigations are
set to be launched
into the organisations responsible for handling the response to the
Iroquois helicopter crash on Anzac Day 2010, which killed three servicemen.
6pm New Zealand house sales
rose in September
, lifting prices to record-highs in the Auckland and Nelson/Marlborough regions, the
Real Estate Institute of New Zealand says.
5.43pm The
New Zealand dollar has risen to 81.77 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 81.60 cents at 8am.
5.25pm John Key told media in Wellington that he is
“sympathetic” to the calls of interpreters working with the NZ army in Afghanistan to be allowed to move to New Zealand
when troops pull out next year. A paper is being drawn up by
Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman to explore the issues.
5.05pm Prime Minister
John Key has told workers at the Real Steel plant in Upper Hutt that “in spite of what you may hear”
manufacturing is “doing extremely well”.
4.46pm Bolt’s NZ press conference is now over. Check out all the highlights of his visit on tonight’s ONE News at 6.
4.45pm Bolt says he enjoys “being challenged all the time”, saying he “strives on being challenged”. But he says he doesn’t want the public to fear him. “I don’t want people to be scared of me,” he said. “The guys beside me on the track should fear me, but not anybody else.”
4.39pm
Bolt rules out a switch to rugby, saying the game is
“too rough”.
“I’m not really a contact sports guy, and it’s rough. I’ve watched it, so it’s not for me I’m sure.”
4.38pm The Olympic champ’s iconic pose was inspired by a Jamaican dance. “I put a swing on it and made it my own,”
Bolt said.
4.36pm
Bolt says he knows “what I’m capable of when I’m in the best shape of my life”. “It’s a wonderful feeling to know that nobody beside you can beat you,” he said.
4.35pm
Usain Bolt tells NZ media he always tries “to go faster every year”. The Olympic gold-medal winner also says cricket is his “first love”. He plays the sport with his brother.
4.25pm Snail-paced internet, bad haircuts, mushy apples and unreliable television remotes have been named as
New Zealand’s top ‘first world problems”.
4.10pm Olympic champion
Bolt has
said he was “scared a little bit”
by a traditional Maori greeting he received in south Auckland today. Check out our live stream of a press conference with the fastest man in the world at 4.15pm today.
4pm
Bolt me with the New Zealand Breakers today, receiving his own jersey.
3.42pm The
Tongan Government has
won a vote of no confidence
which has been debated for months.
3.30pm Two
Australian soldiers have been flown to hospital in a serious condition, and 16 others also injured, after an
open-roofed truck rolled
in a Sydney army base this morning.
3.15pm Prime Minister
John Key has written off a job summit planned for this Friday as “pointless”. The summit is being hosted by unions, businesses and opposition parties, who say the country is facing a jobs and manufacturing crisis, something Key denies.
3pm Police are
investigating a sudden death
in Kaikoura. Reports suggest it may be connected to a burnt out car.
2.30pm Rhythm and Vines organisers have
announced its full line up
– which includes Kimbra, Netsky Live, The Black Seeds, and Mark Ronson among the headline acts – for this year’s festival at Gisborne’s Waiohika Estate.
2.15pm Wikileaks founder
Julian Assange has reportedly hired Sydney lawyers to pursue a defamation case against Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard
.
2pm A prisoner convicted for a domestic violence assault is still being
hunted by police
after escaping from court last week.
Mana Tangitutu , 27, has a distinctive full facial tattoo.
1.47pm A
shellfish toxin alert has now moved from the Coromandel Peninsula, along the Bay of Plenty coastline to Whakatane Heads. Authorities are warning people to avoid eating bi-valve shellfish, catseyes and kina.
1.15pm
Usain Bolt has arrived in Wiri, South Auckland,
Close Up reporter Mark Crysell
has tweeted.
12.50pm:
Team New Zealand had a
disappointing finish to the latest America’s Cup
world series regatta in San Francisco, finishing seventh in the final fleet race.
12.46pm
Labour is calling for the Government to allow
Afghan interpreters
working for Kiwi troops to be offered new homes in New Zealand.
11.45am
Peter Williams brings you the latest
news
from New Zealand and around the world.
11.37am Nearly four out of every 10 Kiwis will live in
Auckland
by 2031, according to new figures.
11.13am Wellington will be renamed ‘The Middle of Middle-earth’ during the week of the world premiere of
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
10.52am An
urgent summit
aimed at tackling the country’s
job and manufacturing crisis is being held this week by unions, politicians and business leaders.
10.09am The ongoing dispute over
bus drivers’ wages
will continue in
Auckland today, after a revised pay offer of $20 an hour was rejected.
9.42am MetService is warning
South Islanders to brace for a blast of
heavy rain and snow
.
9.18am The
New Zealand dollar has fallen to a
one month low
against the greenback.
9.06am Guess which MP is moonlighting as an
opera singer
in an upcoming New Zealand Pops Orchestra production…
8.30am Watch a spectacular goal below by
Tom Cleverley in Manchester United’s 3-0 defeat of Newcastle United.
8.15am Today’s
top sport news – West Indies were crowned the World Twenty20 champions after beating hosts Sri Lanka by 36 runs in Colombo, Manchester United have thumped Newcastle United 3-0 in the Premier League, and Sebastien Loeb secured a record ninth consecutive world title today when he won the Rally of France.
8.04am A major
announcement
about the world premiere of
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is expected later this morning.
7.53am Kiwi runner
Kim Smith
has won the women’s half marathon in Boston, collecting $100,000 for having the best overall combined times in a three-race series.
7:25am Prime Minister
John Key has labelled the Green Party’s idea to print more money
“wacky”
. “If printing money made you rich, Zimbabwe would be the richest country on the planet, and it’s not,” Key told TV ONE’s Breakfast.
7:16am The
Green Party has renewed calls on TV ONE’s Breakfast to print more money in order to bring down the value of the New Zealand dollar.
7:09am The
search
resumes this morning for a whitebaiter swept out to sea in Canterbury last night.
7:00am The fastest man in the world is due to
touch down in Auckland
later this morning.
Usain Bolt will join the
Breakers in a training session and coach a few lucky Kiwi athletes on his promotional whirlwind tour.
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