1Chief Executive of the Christchurch Earthquake Reconstruction Authority, Roger Sutton, says that around 45-people were injured and there has been much more damage to infrastructure and already damaged homes. Yesterday was Roger Surron''s first day in the job. Most places are closed today but should be open tomorrow.
2Aranui is one of the city's poorest suburbs, and residents have struggled to bounce back from the September and February quakes. Rachel Fonotia is the chair of the Aranui Community Trust says yesterday's aftershocks have dealt a further blow to an already rattled community and has had a psycological effect on people; Marnie Kent, co-chair of the Sumner Residents Association; and Peter Broome, South New Brighton resident who has spent a night without power
3The captain of a British Airways jumbo that flew into ash from an Indonesian volcano in 1982, causing all four engines to fail. He helped launch a new European satellite to track worldwide volcanic ash in 2002, and believes that airlines are overreacting to the Chilean volcano
4This is week 3 of a congressman's lewd picture scandal. Anthony Weiner is a Republican and there are calls for him to resign as he is a distraction to more serious debates.
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6United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Baroness Amos has had an extraordinary career. She was first black woman appointed to a British Cabinet and the first black Leader of the House of Lords. She has set precidents all her life.
7The restructuring plan of Sir Ron Brierley's Guinness Peat Group for both the near and long term views. GPG held its AGM in NZ although it is a listed British company. Brierley Investments has just passed it's 50th-anniversary of its listing on the stock exchange.
8The media coverage of the sexual complaint made against former Labour MP Darren Hughes is reviewed as it was a big story for several weeks and now the police say they are not persuing the investigation. So was it the 'media frenzy' that Darren Hughes complained of?