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Checkpoint for Wednesday 23 October 2013
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 23 October 2013
5:00 PM.Mail deliveries are being cut and a thousand posties could lose their jobs. Reparation for the families and survivors of the Paritutu Rock disaster and more firestorm conditions in NSW. Audio
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Up to a 1000 posties could lose their jobs
5:08 PM.Up to a thousand posties could lose their jobs as the mail service cuts back from six to three days a week for standard letters. Audio
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Outdoors centre ordered to pay reparation but no fine
5:13 PM.The Taranaki Outdoor Pursuits and Education Centre has escaped a fine despite the judge saying its culpability was high for a school trip where three people died at New Plymouth's Paritutu Rock. Audio
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Spotswood College's principal has more
5:18 PM.Mark Bowden is the principal of Spotswood College. Audio
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Firestorm conditions in NSW
5:21 PM.To Australia, where a new wildfire near Newcastle, has been upgraded to the highest emergency warning level, as dry winds and high temperatures create conditions for a firestorm in bushland in New… Read more Audio
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Evening Business for 23 October 2013
5:26 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Sports News for 23 October 2013
5:31 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Man jailed for 17 years for murder of Wellington mum
5:34 PM.A man who hid in the ceiling of his ex-girlfriend's home, until she was asleep and then stabbed her to death, will spend at least 17 years in jail. Audio
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Hundreds of posties to lose their jobs, as mail deliveries cut
5:37 PM.Hundreds of posties will lose their jobs as standard mail deliveries are cut from six days a week to three for most people. Audio
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Battle lines drawn over Ruataniwha Dam
5:40 PM.The battle lines have been draw at the first meeting of the Hawke's Bay Regional Council today, with Ruataniwha dam supporter Fenton Wilson being re-elected as chair over critic Rick Barker. Audio
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Judge says man a predator
5:43 PM.A Hamilton man who fled the country using a false passport while awaiting sentencing for sexually abusing two young teenage girls has been sent to jail for just over seven years. Audio
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Te Manu Korihi News for 23 October 2013
5:48 PM.Parliament has unanimously passed the first readings of three treaty settlement bills, giving the tribes comfort their past is finally being acknowledged; A new study has found food taxes and… Read more Audio
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37 children abused in state care, by CYFs-approved caregivers.
5:51 PM.Latest figures show 37 children and young people were abused in state care, prompting Child, Youth and Family to say it needs to assess its caregivers better. Audio
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Key says Greenpeace scaremongering
5:54 PM.The Prime Minister, John Key, says Greenpeace is scare-mongering with it model of potential damage to New Zealand's coastline from a oil-well blowout. Audio
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Labour wants details on cutting mail deliveries to urban areas
6:09 PM.The government won't be drawn on the suggestion up to a thousand posties could lose their jobs as the mail service cuts back from six to three days a week for standard letters. Audio
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Postal union organiser has more
6:12 PM.The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union's Postal sector coordinator is Joe Gallagher. Audio
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Former police detective defends having baton under car seat
6:19 PM.A former police detective is waiting to learn his fate after armed police stopped him in his car and discovered a baton hidden under the driver's seat. Audio
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Minister hopes latest attempt to settle with Tuhoe is postitive
6:27 PM.The Treaty Negotiations Minister has told Parliament he hopes the latest attempt to settle past Treaty of Waitangi grievances with Tuhoe will succeed. Audio
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Business News Update
6:30 PM.The Seek website has recorded a huge increase in job advertisements for roles in design and architecture as well as construction. Audio
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Sports News for 23 October 2013
6:35 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Victims of violence plea for more protection
6:38 PM.MPs have heard an emotional plea for victims of violence to get more protection from offenders. Audio
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Shona Laing inducted into New Zealand Music Hall of Fame
6:47 PM.After more than 40 years in the music business, the singer Shona Laing is to be inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. Audio
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Te Manu Korihi News for 23 October 2013
6:49 PM.Parliament has unanimously passed the first readings of three treaty settlement bills, giving the tribes comfort their past is finally being acknowledged; A new study has found food taxes and… Read more Audio
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Otago University NZ's first Fairtrade uni
6:53 PM.Otago University has today become New Zealand's first Fair Trade university. Audio
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Gardener dies from legionnaires' diesease
6:57 PM.A coroner's found that an avid Christchurch gardener died from breathing in potting mix dust, prompting a warning from health officials. Audio