5 Jun 2015

Week In Review for week ending June 5 2015

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 5 June 2015

A review of the week's news including... Lecretia Seales, the 42-year-old Wellington lawyer with terminal brain cancer has died of natural causes as a High Court judge rejects her fight to die on her own terms, housing experts say a toddler who died due to sickness in part caused by a cold, damp home is the tragic face of an issue facing thousands of children, Dunedin's once in nearly two hundred years flood event, the trial of two teenagers accused of murdering a Henderson dairy owner is underway, Northland's new MP wants the Government to explain why it's spent millions on a new charter school while forcing children in Kaikohe to study in building being likened to a slum, a road safety advocate on why he thinks our road toll is looking so bad, the shock resignation of FIFA president Sepp Blatter is discussed on Nine to Noon, how standing while working at the office, rather than sitting all day-long could extend your life, a personal crusade to find homes for hundreds of urns left unclaimed after an Auckland funeral home went bust and Wellington's 152-year-old department store Kirkcaldie and Stains is closing if shareholders give it the green light.