10 Mar 2018

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Mar 9 2018

From The Week In Review, 7:00 am on 10 March 2018

A review of the week's news including... inside the Canterbury Home Repair programme, the explosion in freedom campers has reached a crisis point, a hundred or so tourists trapped near Taumarunui are rescued by helicopter, the revamped Trans Pacific Partnership is finally signed, a Ministry of Transport fraudster denied parole for a second time, New Zealand gives nearly 10 million dollars to help Samoa tackle climate change and boost its economy on the first stop of the government's Pacific 'reset' tour, twenty-seven thousand hospital nurses could go on strike, Golden Bay business owners try to figure out how to cope with a dramatic downturn in business since last month's storm, It's official - we've just experienced the hottest summer on record and a famous picture has been immortalised in bronze.