1Two former Child Youth and Family foster parents and their daughter are facing 38 charges of abusing four boys who lived with them. Andrew and Jenny Lee Hamara and their daughter Tamara in Wellsford between 2006 and 2010. In court the abuse was graphically documented. They did not get name suppression and the case has been widely publicised.

2The main agency that supports foster families is appalled at the publicity over the Hemaras' prosecution and blames the changes to legal aid, which means the foster families may not get the representation they need. The Family and Foster Care Federation say that they get many unfounded accusations every year, around 75% are untrue, and families need protection while they are investigated. In this case the duty solicitor did not ask for name suppression - which should have been done.

3The government's early childhood taskforce wants an urgent review of the care of under-fives at home as it is troubled buy the poor quality of some early education and say it is unacceptable that they get funded as teachers when most are not qualified. But organisations involved in this field say that people may need assistance to qualify.

4Transpower is pledging to carry out an investigation into the death of a worker, and the serious injury of another, at a remote site near Wellington. They were working on overhead lines, in the bucket of an industrial hoist four wheel drive when it fell down a cliff.

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6Five foreigners have been arrested in connection with two jewellery heists, totalling more than seven-hundred-thousand dollars

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8In the first case of its kind in New Zealand a former guard who smuggled hard drugs, fast food and a cell phone into Rimutaka Prison, has been jailed for two years three months. Keywords: Johan Clark

9The Corrections Department's chief executive Ray Smith thinks the penalty in this case fits the crime. Supplying prisoners with drugs affects their behaviour in prison and affects their drug recovery programmes.

10Government Ministers have been testing out Auckland's public transport ahead of the World Cup. Murray McCully and Steven Joyce caught buses to test the transport links, and they were late to arrive at Eden Park.

11Chinese hackers have been targeting personal Google Mail accounts, including senior US officials and journalists.

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13Celebrities who make false statements while endorsing financial services could face a fine of up to a million-dollars, under new laws that are being drafted.

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15New Zealand is to take command of the United States -led fight against piracy in the Gulf of Aden but is not sending a frigate.

16A lack of work has led to layoffs and down sizing in the road building and general contracting industry. It may be some time before the situation improves as although the sate highway building programmes are going ahead there are few in the regions.

17The tougher speeding restrictions which have been in force over recent long weekends will now be made permanent for every holiday period. Motorists travelling at more than 4Kilometers over the speed limit will be targeted.

18A thirteen-year old boy has become the symbol of the political unrest in Syria, with activist saying that government forces tortured him to death. The government says he was shot during a demonstration and they will investigate his death. As foreign journalists are barred from Syria the BBC sent this report from Beirut in Lebanon.

19Business news, including: The Government plans to introduce a new Resource Management Act in the Exclusive Economic Zone and extended Continental Shelf. Chatham Rock Phosphate wants to mine on the seabed of the Chatham Rise, some 450 kilometres east of Christchurch.

20Libyan officials are continuing to defect, the latest group are the to oil officials. The Chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation, Shokri Ghanem, has appeared in Rome, saying he had defected.

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22Hundreds of locals in quake-ravaged Lyttelton have told the City Council how they'd like their half-demolished town to look in the future. They are one of the first communities outside Christchurch to be consulted about the future of their communities.

23The government's early childhood taskforce wants an urgent review of the care of under-fives at home and are saying that there is poor quality and that there are centres where most of the teachers are not qualified.

24Opponents of oil and gas drilling off the east cape of the North Island are supporting a bill that would increase environmental controls in deep waters. The government is presenting a bill that would require companies to apply for mining rights under the Environmental Protection Authority. Keywords: Petrobras; Greywolf;

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26The owner of many central Christchurch buildings says property owners are up in arms against what they regard as overly cautious restrictions on getting into the red zone, especially after pictures of Christchurch Council gardeners working on gardens in the red zone appeared in the papers.

27Inland Revenue says it will pursue defiant student loan defaulters through the courts even if the costs of legal action is more than the debt.