Lately for Thursday 14 October 2021

10.20pm Sex workers told to go back to Auckland 

Two sex workers arrested in Blenheim have till 5pm tomorrow to get back to Auckland where they belong. 

Several other suggestions that sex workers have been breaching borders in lockdown have come to light in relation to Northland's move to Level Three. 

So how has Covid changed the job of sex workers? And what is forcing them to take risks?

Dame Catherine Healy from the  NZ Sex Workers Collective discusses this with Karyn Hay.  

10.30 Farmers told neighbours can milk cows if Covid hits 

Advice to Dairy Farmers from Ministry of Primary Industries has gone down like a cup of cold sick.

Late this afternoon Dairy farmers were told if they get Covid they have to get their neighbour to milk their cows. 

Jason Herrick is Federated Farmers Southland Dairy chair. 

10.45 Could dinosaurs wag their tales? 

Computer simulations of dinosaurs has yielded an accidental discovery ... their tails wagged when they walked.

Historically it has been accepted that the giant creatures' tails were a counterbalance, helping to keep them steady.

Studying locomotion in fossils has always been tricky .. but a research team at the Royal Veterinary College in London has found dinosaurs' tails actually moved and helped them to  walk efficiently.

The aim of the study was to find out how they walked and ran and how high they could jump.

Dr Peter Bishop, who is currently a research fellow at Harvard University in the US - tells Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan high tech simulations revealed their tails could actually swing up and down.