Morning Report for Thursday 14 January 2021

8:57 AM.A world-record attempt is underway in Gore to shear the most lambs in nine hours.

24-year-old Megan Whitehead is attempting to beat the current record of 648, which was set by Emily Welch in 2007.

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8:54 AM.Dunedin City Council has closed a public road so a sea lion can safely reach the ocean to get food for her new born pup. Hiriwa, the 150 kilogram sea lion, is currently nestled in bush alongside the… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.The Tiwai Point Aluminium smelter will keep operating through to the end of December 2024, in a new deal just announced to the New Zealand stock exchange.

Meridian Energy says that global mining… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.Doctors are welcoming new guidelines on when and if it is appropriate to snip babies with a tongue-tie.

As many as one in ten babies are born with a tongue-tie each year, which can cause… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Thousands of social media accounts have been purged from the Internet in the wake of the Capitol riots, as tech companies reevaluate the role their services played in organising that chaotic event.

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8:32 AM.A fire at a scrap metal yard in Papakura has been put out overnight.

The last fire truck left the site at 4:30am, after battling the blaze since eight o'clock yesterday morning.

At one stage, the… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.Americans have a history of snapping up some of the most sought after slices of New Zealand paradise and now it seems they want a piece of the All Blacks too.

Overseas media is reporting US-based… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.A Whakatane therapist says the Whakaari eruption and Christchurch mosque shooting reveal a health system unable to deal with mass casualty events.

Now there are calls for millions of dollars of… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.In the UK, 1,564 people have died in the past 24 hours after testing positive for Covid-19 - the highest number of deaths reported on a single day since the pandemic began.

It takes the total number… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.Proponents of free speech are concerned at Twitter's capricious suspension of tens of thousands of accounts in recent days, which has now reached New Zealand.

They say many of these accounts were… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.A breakneck push by Democrats to impeach US President Donald Trump is gathering momentum, with a number of Republicans signalling they may break ranks and support the effort.

The House of… Read more Audio