DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF MIDDAY WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INJURED IN A BUS CRASH IN THE SOUTH ISLAND. AUCKLAND COUNCIL DEBATES WHETHER TO GIVE THE GREEN LIGHT FOR V8 RACING AT PUKEKOHE. AND QUEENSLAND NARROWLY BEATS NEW SOUTH WALES IN A THRILLING STATE OF ORIGIN DECIDER. KIA ORA, GOOD AFTERNOON. A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INJURED IN A BUS CRASH IN SOUTHLAND THIS MORNING. ONE NEWS REPORTER JOY REID JOINS US NOW, LIVE FROM OUR CHRISTCHURCH NEWSROOM. JOY. THE BUS CRASHED AROUND 9AM JUST OUT OF MOSSBURN IT WAS CARRYING 30 CHINESE NATIONALS HEADING FROM QUEENSTOWN TO MILFORD SOUND THE ROAD WAS VERY ICY A VERY COLD MORNING AND A RAIN SHOWER CAME THROUGH JUST BEFORE THE CRASH THAT TURNED TO BLACK ICE, WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE THE CAUSE THE BUS WAS GOING AROUND A CURVE AND APPEARED TO HAVE ROLLED ST JOHN'S HAS TREATED 15 PATIENTS TWO ARE IN A SERIOUS CONDITION ONE IS A CHILD THEY'VE BEEN FLOWN TO QUEENSTOWN HOSPITAL SEVEN PEOPLE WERE MODERATELY INJURED THEY'VE BEEN TAKEN BY ROAD TO INVERCARGILL HOSPITAL A TRANSLATOR HAS GONE WITH THEM TO HOSPITAL SIX PEOPLE RECEIVED MINOR CUTS AND BRUISES ONLY 15 PEOPLE IT'S TOO EARLY TO SAY EXACTLY WHAT THE CAUSE WAS BUT BLACK ICE WAS THE MOST LIKELY A GRIT TRUCK HAS ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE AREA THERE WERE WARNING SIGNS BOTH POLICE AND THE SERIOUS CRASH UNIT ARE INVESTIGATING THIS CRASH THE BUS IS STILL ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IT'S RIGHT UNDERNEATH POWER LINES, SO THE POWER COMPANY IS ON ITS WAY TO THE SCENE WE WILL HAVE UPDATED DETAILS ON THE NEWS AT 4.30 AND THE NEWS HOUR AT SIX, PLUS ON OUR WEBSITE AT ONENEWS.CO.NZ. AN AMERICAN EXPERT WITNESS IS ENDORSING THE VIEW OF A CHRISTCHURCH ENGINEER THAT THE CTV BUILDING WAS STILL STRUCTURALLY SOUND AFTER THE FIRST BIG EARTHQUAKE IN SEPTEMBER 2010. THE EVIDENCE HAS COME ON DAY EIGHT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION HEARING INTO THE COLLAPSE OF THE BUILDING THE FOLLOWING FEBRUARY, WITH THE LOSS OF 115 LIVES. THE AMERICAN REVIEWED THE WORK CARRIED OUT BY LOCAL ENGINEER DAVID COATSWORTH. I'M VERY CONFIDENT OF THAT CONCLUSION, BASED ON THE EVIDENCE MR COATSWORTH HAS PRESENTED AND THE STATE OF THE BUILDING WHEN HE SAW IT. HOWEVER, THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERT HAS BACKED A SUGGESTION THAT BETTER TRAINING IS NEEDED FOR RAPID ASSESSMENT TEAMS GOING INTO BUILDINGS AFTER EARTHQUAKES IN NZ AND THAT AN INTERNAL ASSESSMENT SHOULD BE MANDATORY. THICK FOG BLANKETED AUCKLAND THIS MORNING, CAUSING PROBLEMS FOR TRAVELLERS FLYING IN AND OUT. A NUMBER OF FLIGHTS WERE CANCELLED OR DELAYED. ONE NEWS REPORTER JOANNA HUNKIN JOINS US NOW, LIVE FROM AUCKLAND AIRPORT WITH THE LATEST. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE FOG IS STILL QUITE THICK IT IS CLEARING A BIT BUT IT GOT WORSE OVER THE COURSE OF THE MORNING METSERVICE SAYS THAT'S COMMON IT GETS WORSE BEFORE GETTING BETTER IT'S EXPECTED TO LIFT IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS THE FOG STRETCHES FROM NEWMARKET TO HAMILTON AT AUCKLAND AIRPORT, IT IS 8 DEGREES AND DAMPY THERE ARE A LOT OF DELAYS ALL REGIONAL FLIGHTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED THIS MORNING FLIGHTS TO AND FROM WELLINGTON AND CHRISTCHURCH ARE RUNNING BUT WITH DELAYS IF YOU ARE TRAVELLING TO REGIONAL AREAS, CHECK FLIGHT INFORMATION BEFORE YOU LEAVE OTHERWISE YOU'LL JOIN A GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE HERE AT THE TERMINAL IT'S THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS A LOT OF DISAPPOINTED FAMILIES AROUND BUT PEOPLE ARE RELAXED AND UNDERSTAND IT'S BEYOND ANYONE'S CONTROL PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REBOOK TICKETS FAIRLY EASILY THE METSERVICE SAY WIND SHOULD COME IN THIS AFTERNOON, WHICH SHOULD HELP CLEAR THE FOG AND WE SHOULDN'T HAVE A REPEAT OF THIS FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK THE FOG ALSO CAUSED SOME PROBLEMS ON THE ROADS AS WELL, WITH POLICE HAVING A BUSIER-THAN-USUAL MORNING. THE SITUATION WAS AGGRAVATED BY THOUSANDS OF AUCKLAND BUS PASSENGERS HAVING TO FIND ANOTHER WAY OF GETTING AROUND TODAY, AS BUS DRIVERS STOPPED WORK TO DISCUSS EMPLOYMENT ISSUES. UNION MEMBERS ARE MEETING TO RATIFY THE TERMS OF A NEW COLLECTIVE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, NEGOTIATED AFTER A SERIES OF 'WORK TO RULE' STRIKES. ALL NORTH STAR, GO WEST, METROLINK, CITY LINK, OUTER LINK AND WAKA PACIFIC BUSES HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED FROM 9 O'CLOCK. THEY'RE DUE TO RESUME AT 2.30PM. THE AUCKLAND COUNCIL IS TODAY DEBATING WHETHER TO GO AHEAD WITH PLANS FOR AN ANNUAL V8 SUPERCARS EVENT AT PUKEKOHE FOR FIVE YEARS FROM NEXT APRIL. THE EVENT REQUIRES AN ANNUAL $2.1M INJECTION FROM THE COUNCIL. AUCKLAND MAYOR LEN BROWN SAID THAT, WITH AN ESTIMATED RETURN ON INVESTMENT OF MORE THAN $7M, HE'S CONFIDENT COUNCILLORS WILL BACK THE PROPOSAL. THERE IS SOME OPPOSITION, HOWEVER. COUNCILLOR CAMERON BREWER SAYS IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE, AND IT MAKES MORE SENSE FOR HAMPTON DOWNS TO HOST THE V8S, GIVEN IT WOULDN'T REQUIRE AS MUCH INVESTMENT. THE COUNCILLORS ARE EXPECTED TO MAKE A DECISION THIS AFTERNOON . A HEARING'S UNDERWAY IN CHRISTCHURCH TO DECIDE WHAT RESTRICTIONS CAN BE IMPOSED ON THE MAN KNOWN AS THE BEAST OF BLENHEIM ONCE HE'S RELEASED FROM PRISON. MURRAY WILSON WILL BE FREED IN SEPTEMBER AFTER SERVING 18 YEARS IN JAIL FOR MULTIPLE SEX OFFENCES AGAINST WOMEN. THE CROWN IS SEEKING AN EXTENDED SUPERVISION ORDER THAT WILL MEAN WILSON CAN BE KEPT UNDER TIGHT CONTROLS BEYOND THE NORMAL THREE-YEAR PERIOD. A REPORT OUT TODAY ON FOUNDATION LEARNING SAYS THE 'EDUCATION SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE FAILING' THOSE WHO STUDY FOR TERTIARY CERTIFICATES. THE PAPER PUBLISHED BY AKO AOTEAROA, WHICH IS A GOVERNMENT FUNDED LEARNING SUPPORT ORGANISATION, CRITICISES THE LOW COMPLETION RATE BY STUDENTS. IT SAYS LESS THAN 39% OF LEVEL ONE TO THREE LEARNERS QUALIFIED FOR COURSES THEY STARTED. THE REPORT ALSO SAYS THAT WHILE IT'S EXPECTED, LEARNERS DON'T GO ON TO STUDY OTHER COURSES IN THEIR FIELD. AFTER NEARLY FIFTY YEARS OF STUDYING, SEARCHING AND EXPERIMENTING, SCIENTISTS SAY THEY MAY HAVE FINALLY UNLOCKED THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE. RESEARCHERS THINK THEY HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT SOME CALL THE 'GOD PARTICLE' BECAUSE IT HELPS US UNDERSTAND HOW THE UNIVERSE BEGAN. THE BBC'S PALLAB GHOSH EXPLAINS. IT IS PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE COSMOS; THROUGH STARS AND OUR OWN PLANET EARTH. SOME CALL IT THE GOD PARTICLE, BECAUSE WITHOUT IT, THE UNIVERSE WOULD NOT EXIST. YET NO ONE HAS DETECTED THE HIGGS BOSON... UNTIL, MAYBE, NOW. HERE AT CERN, SCIENTISTS HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THE HIGGS DEEP UNDER THE SWISS-FRENCH BORDER, USING THE MOST POWERFUL PARTICLE ACCELERATOR EVER BUILT. TODAY THEY SAID THEY'VE PROBABLY FOUND IT. LOUD APPLAUSE AND FULL OF EMOTION AT THE NEWS, THE BRITISH SCIENTIST WHO PREDICTED THE PARTICLE'S EXISTENCE. FOR ME, IT'S REALLY AN INCREDIBLE THING THAT IT'S HAPPENED IN MY LIFETIME. APPLAUSE THIS IS AN IMPORTANT RESULT AND SHOULD EARN PETER HIGGS THE NOBEL PRIZE. NOW THAT THE HIGGS HAS PROBABLY BEEN FOUND, SCIENTISTS CAN BEGIN TO STUDY HOW IT WORKS AND HOW IT HOLDS THE UNIVERSE TOGETHER. WHAT WE KNOW NOW IS WE KNOW WHERE TO GO. IT'S LIKE SAYING WE WANT TO EXPLORE THAT OCEAN, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE LAND IS THAT WE WANT TO EXPLORE. WE'VE NOW FOUND THAT LAND. TODAY'S DISCOVERY IS A START OF A NEW SCIENTIFIC JOURNEY ` ONE THAT WILL SPARK A FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE; ON A PAR WITH EINSTEIN'S THEORIES OF RELATIVITY AND NEWTON'S EXPLANATION OF GRAVITY. FIREFIGHTERS IN TURKEY ARE BATTLING SEVERAL FOREST BLAZES ALONG THE BORDER WITH SYRIA, AN AREA WHERE THOUSANDS OF SYRIANS REFUGEES HAVE CROSSED TO FLEE THE FIGHTING. A FORESTRY OFFICIAL SAYS THE FIRES WERE DELIBERATELY LIT ON THE SYRIAN SIDE OF THE BORDER, WITH STRONG WINDS SPREADING THE FLAMES TO TURKEY. TURKEY'S STATE RUN TELEVISION IS CLAIMING THAT SYRIAN FORCES STARTED THE FIRES TO STOP ANTI-GOVERNMENT ACTIVISTS FROM SHELTERING IN THE FORESTS ALONG THE BORDER. IN HUNGARY, PEOPLE ARE PREPARING FOR RECORD BREAKING HEAT AS TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO SOAR THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. EARLIER THIS WEEK, BUDAPEST HIT 37.4 DEGREES, THE HIGHEST EVER MEASURED THERE. HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE EXTENDED A HEAT WARNING UNTIL AFTER THE WEEKEND WITH TEMPERATURES FORECAST TO REMAIN NEAR RECORD LEVELS. AFTER YEARS OF SPECULATION ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF THE LATE PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT, TRACES OF POISON HAVE BEEN FOUND ON HIS CLOTHES. A SWISS CLINIC TESTED THE HAT HE WAS WEARING WHEN HE WAS ILL. SCIENTISTS FOUND ABNORMAL LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVE POLONIUM ON ITEMS OF CLOTHING AND HIS TOOTH BRUSH. ALL THE SAMPLES WERE, UM, WERE BELONGING FROM MR ARAFAT, THAT WERE CONTAINING VISIBLE BIOLOGICAL STAINS. BUT THEY COULDN'T CONFIRM THE PALESTINIAN LEADER DIED FROM POISONING. HIS WIDOW HAS DEMANDED HIS BODY BE EXHUMED FOR FURTHER TESTS. IT'S THE SAME POISON THAT KILLED RUSSIAN DISSIDENT ALEXANDER LITVINENKO AFTER HE WAS GIVEN A CUP OF TEA LACED WITH POLONIUM IN 2006. ONE OF BRITAIN'S GREATEST COMEDIANS, ERIC SYKES, HAS DIED. SYKES WAS BEST KNOWN FOR WRITING AND PERFORMING IN A SERIES OF TV SITCOMS FROM THE 1950S, AND OFTEN STARRED ALONGSIDE HATTIE JACQUES. THE BBC'S DAVID SILLITO LOOKS BACK AT HIS CAREER. AT THE END OF THE TABLE, I COULD EAT MY DINNER. ERIC AND HATTIE ` THE ALLEGEDLY IDENTICAL TWINS OF SEBASTAPOL TERRACE. THE SHOW WAS A POPULAR PART OF TV LIFE FOR 20 YEARS, EVERY WEEK A NEW COMIC DISASTER. HERE, SOME ROGUE HANDCUFFS. AUDIENCE LAUGHS BUT HE'D ALREADY WON A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 10 YEARS BEFORE THIS ` AUDIENCE EXCLAIMS, LAUGHS WHEN PETER SELLERS APPEARED ON THE SHOW, IT WAS A REMINDER OF HIS DAYS IN THE '50S, WRITING AND WORKING SELLERS, SPIKE MILLIGAN, FRANKIE HOWERD AND TONY HANCOCK. WRITING, PERFORMING, DIRECTING ` HE'S DONE IT ALL. I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH ERIC IN A FARCE CALLED 'CAUGHT IN THE NET', AND IT WAS JUST A JOY, ACTUALLY, TO WORK WITH HIM. THE MAN WAS A GENIUS. HE'LL BE SADLY, SADLY MISSED. THE SON OF A MILL WORKER FROM OLDHAM, HE HAD A LOVE OF SILENT COMEDY AND SLAPSTICK. THIS, 'THE PLANK', WON AWARDS, AND THROUGH IT ALL HE WAS GRADUALLY LOSING HIS HEARING, AND IN LATER YEARS, HIS SIGHT. BUT HE CONTINUED TO WORK ` HERE IN THE FILM 'THE OTHERS', AND EVERYTHING FROM SHAKESPEARE TO HARRY POTTER. IT SAYS FOR A SWIMMER TO BECOME ACCLIMATISED, HE MUST WEAR THESE FOR 20 MINUTES A DAY. COMEDY, HE SAID, WASN'T WORK, BUT FEW PEOPLE WORKED HARDER AT IT. ERIC SYKES WAS 89. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY, WE'LL CHECK IN ON WHAT'S MAKING BUSINESS NEWS, AND NEW SOUTH WALES FEEL THE PAIN, LOSING THE STATE OF ORIGIN BY JUST ONE POINT. 1 WITH ME NOW IS DAVID CHEAPE FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. GOOD AFTERNOON, DAVID. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE DNZ PROPERTY REPORT? GOOD AFTERNOON DNZ ANNOUNCED SOME LEASING ACTIVITY THEY COMPLETED 33 TRANSACTIONS IN THREE MONTHS AND HAVE 99% OCCUPANCY RATE ACROSS THEIR PORTFOLIO AND SOME DATA OUT IN EUROPE ` WHAT IS EXPECTED TONIGHT? CONTINUING WEAK MONTHLY ECONOMIC DATA IN EUROPE THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK IS MEETING TONIGHT THEY'RE EXPECTED TO CUT INTEREST RATES BY 0.25% BANK OF ENGLAND WILL EXTEND THEIR BOND-BUYING PROGRAMME THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT IS GOING OUT FOR $3B OF EURO BONDS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WEAK AND STRONG ` THE ITALIAN 10-YEAR BOND-BORROWING RATE IS 5.75 THE GERMANS' IS 1.5% THANK YOU DAVID CHEAPE FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. TO SPORT NOW, QUEENSLAND IS CELEBRATING CLINCHING A SEVENTH STRAIGHT STATE OF ORIGIN LEAGUE SERIES AGAINST NEW SOUTH WALES. BUT PREDICTABLY, DRAMA SURROUNDED THE MAROONS' 21-20 VICTORY IN BRISBANE. HERE'S STEPHEN STUART. CLEVER DUMMY RUNNING, BLATANT SHEPHERDING, OR ACCIDENTAL OBSTRUCTION? ALL THREE, PROBABLY. BUT THE TRY TO JUSTIN HODGES STOOD AND GAVE QUEENSLAND A CRUCIAL EIGHT-POINT BUFFER JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME. WELL, BASICALLY, I DON'T THINK YOU CAN DO IT. I DON'T THINK YOU CAN RUN BEHIND YOUR OWN MAN. PROBABLY IN CLUB FOOTBALL IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A NO TRY, BUT ON THAT NIGHT IT WAS A TRY. OF COURSE, THE MAROONS HAD A DIFFERENT TAKE. GREAT TRY, WASN'T IT? I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THERE WAS, UM... THE VIDEO UMP THAT ABOUT THE INTERFERENCE. MIND YOU, THE BLUES ONLY HAD THEMSELVES TO BLAME AFTER ALLOWING A TRY TO CONCEDE THE LEAD. SCORES! THEY BLEW THE RESTART, WHICH ENSURED THE MAROONS WOULD LEAD AT HALF-TIME FOR THE NINTH MATCH IN A ROW. ROBBIE FARAH'S PINPOINT KICKING BROUGHT THE BLUES BACK IN TO THE GAME... STUART! STUART HAS SCORED! AND THEN LEVEL, 20-ALL... ...DELIBERATELY LOOKING TO THE CENTRE. CHEERING ...WITH FIELD-GOAL TIME. AND FROM 40M OUT, COOPER CRONK WROTE HIMSELF INTO ORIGIN FOLKLORE. ONCE YOU GET DOWN TO THOSE, UM, SINGLE DIGITS ON THE CLOCK, UH, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. DONE ALL HIS TRAINING, HIS PRACTISE. HE STAYED BACK PROBABLY A HALF-HOUR LAST NIGHT, SORTING FIELD GOALS. THE BLUES STILL HAD TIME TO SNATCH THE WIN, AND THE SERIES. BUT JUNIOR KIWI BEN TEO RUSHED MITCHELL PIERCE AS HE WENT FOR THE MATCH-TYING ONE-POINTER. IT'S GOT THE LENGTH, IT'S NOT GOT THE DIRECTION, THOUGH. JUST WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE, AND IT WAS VERY HARD, VERY FAST, VERY PHYSICAL, SO I ENJOYED IT. SO DID PAUL GALLON, DESPITE HIM AND HIS BLUES BEING ON THE RECIEVING END AGAIN. THERE'S NOTHING, THE REFEREES, THAT COST EITHER TEAM THE GAME. LIKE I SAID, IT WAS A SERIOUSLY CRACKING GAME OF FOOTY. AND THE MAROONS'S VICTORY A FITTING SEND-OFF FOR PETERO CIVONICEVA. STEPHEN STUART, ONE NEWS. IN TENNIS, DEFENDING CHAMPION NOVAK DJOKOVIC WILL MEET THIRD SEED ROGER FEDERER IN THE MENS' SEMI-FINALS AT WIMBLEDON ON SATURDAY MORNING. THEY BOTH WON THEIR QUARTER FINALS IN STRAIGHT SETS. AND AFTER ANOTHER TENSE MATCH, BRITON ANDY MURRAY HAS ALSO MADE IT THROUGH TO THE SEMI-FINALS AFTER BEATING SPAIN'S DAVID FERRER. BBC CORRESPONDENT TIM FRANKS REPORTS. FERRER WAS CERTAINLY IRREPRESSIBLE ` THAT STRANGE HYBRID OF PANTHER-FAST AND DOGGED ` LEADING TO A BREAK. BUT THEN MURRAY UNLEASHED HIMSELF, BREAKING BACK. CHEERING, APPLAUSE AFTER AN HOUR, A TIE BREAK. AND IT WAS MURRAY MUZZLED. HIS OVERRELIANCE ON THE DROP SHOT MADE EVEN THE MOST COMPOSED FACE WINCE. FIRST SET TO FERRER. THE SECOND SET, AND MURRAY HAD TO POUND AND POUND ALL THE WAY TO A TIE BREAK. CHEERING, APPLAUSE IT WAS TENNIS THAT MADE YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH; NOT DARE SPEAK. CHEERING, APPLAUSE AFTER ALMOST TWO AND A HALF HOURS, IT WAS ONE SET ALL. THE THIRD SET WENT WITH SERVE UNTIL MURRAY REMEMBERED WHAT HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE BEST AT ` RETURNING. THAT GAVE HIM BREAK POINT AND THE SET, 6-4. THE FOURTH SET SWUNG BACK AND FORTH TO ANOTHER TIE BREAK, AND NOW MURRAY'S TURN TO SHOW THE LITTLE BEAST WHO WAS THE ALPHA MALE. CHEERING, APPLAUSE NEXT POINT ` MATCH POINT. LOUD CHEERING MURRAY WILL PLAY JO-WILFRED TSONGA IN THEIR SEMI FINAL ON SATURDAY MORNING, OUR TIME. THE WOMEN'S SEMI-FINALS ARE PLAYED TOMORROW MORNING. THE TENNIS HIGHLIGHTS FROM PLAY EARLIER TODAY WILL SCREEN ON TV ONE FROM 3 THIS AFTERNOON. KIWI HEAVYWEIGHT SHANE CAMERON'S BOXING CAREER GOES ON THE LINE TONIGHT WHEN HE TAKES ON AMERICAN VETERAN MONTE BARRETT AT AUCKLAND'S SKY CITY. A COMPREHENSIVE VICTORY FOR BARRETT WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY END CAMERON'S (34) CAREER AS A HEAVYWEIGHT. BARRETT (41) HOLDS THE WBO ASIA-PACIFIC BELT AND GOES INTO TONIGHT'S BOUT WITH A 35 WIN, 9 LOSS RECORD, HAVING FOUGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS LIKE VLADIMIR KLITSCHKO AND HASIM RAHMAN. CAMERON IS WELL AWARE IT'S MAKE OR BREAK. THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. UM, EVERYTHING'S ALL ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES AND HOW YOU TAKE IT, AND IF YOU WANT IT, IT'S ALL GOING TO COME DOWN TO WHO WANTS IT ON THE NIGHT. THE UNDERCARD FEATURES AUCKLAND HEAVYWEIGHT JOSEPH PARKER IN HIS FIRST PROFESSIONAL FIGHT, UP AGAINST DEAN GARMONSWAY. CRICKETER JESSE RYDER TAKES ON BROADCASTER MARK WATSON IN A PERSONAL GRUDGE FIGHT. KIWI SPRINT CYCLIST GREG HENDERSON'S PLAYED A STARRING ROLE IN TEAMMATE ANDRE GREIPEL'S FOURTH STAGE WIN IN THE TOUR DE FRANCE THIS MORNING. HENDERSON SET UP THE PERFECT FINISH FOR THE GERMAN. SWISS RIDER FABIAN CANCELLARA RETAINS THE TOUR LEADER'S YELLOW JERSEY, AFTER NARROWLY AVAOIDING A CRASH INVOLVING BRITISH SPRINT-HOPE MARK CAVENDISH. THERE'S A LOT OF MOVEMENT AGAIN, THEY MUST BE COMING DOWN HERE NOW IN EXCESS OF 55KM NOW` OH! THEY'VE GONE DOWN! MARK CAVENDISH HAS GONE DOWN! CAVENDISH IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT ONE AT THE MOMENT, AND SO TOO, I THINK, IS BOASSON HAGEN. MARK CAVENDISH ESCAPED THE CRASH WITH MINOR SCRAPES AND BRUISES, AND WILL CONTINUE TO COMPETE IN THE NEXT STAGE OF THE RACE. DOUBLE AMPUTEE RUNNER OSCAR PISTORIUS IS SET TO MAKE HISTORY AS HE JOINS THE SOUTH AFRICAN RELAY TEAM FOR THE LONDON OLYMPICS. PISTORIUS HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR BOTH THE INDIVIDUAL 400M AND FOUR BY 400M RELAY TEAM, BECOMING THE FIRST AMPUTEE TRACK ATHLETE EVER TO COMPETE AT THE OLYMPICS. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY, I'LL BE BACK WITH THE AFTERNOON WEATHER. NOW TO THE WEATHER. ON THE ISOBAR MAP, THERE'S A BIG DOUBLE-HEADED LOW OVER THE NORTH ISLAND. THE FRONT UP BY NORTHLAND WILL TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS. EASTERLY WINDS FEED RAIN IN FROM GISBORNE TO NORTH CANTERBURY, AND THERE'S A WEAK FRONT BRUSHING THE FAR SOUTH WITH SHOWERS. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ THANKS FOR JOINING US. OUR NEXT NEWS IS AT 4.30PM, AND THE ONE NEWS HOUR WILL BE HERE AT 6. GOOD AFTERNOON. CAPTIONS BY RICHARD EDMUNDS AND LAUREN STRAIN. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR.