The Panel for Thursday 24 December 2020
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Dear Panel
3:45 PM.This is a time of year when a lot of people are on the move, often to places that are important to them. That has taken on a new resonance this year, as many have been locked down or sheltering place… Read more Audio
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What the panellists have been thinking
3:50 PM.What panellists Julia Hartley Moore and Alan McElroy have been thinking about. Audio
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Budgeting service sees huge spike in pensioners needing food
4:08 PM.The Mangere Budgeting Service says they have seen a 46 percent spike in pensioners needing food in the past two years. Darryl Evans, who runs the service, says the problem is crippling rents. He joins… Read more Audio
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Calls for track 'n' trace system for freedom campers
4:17 PM.A group of tourism industry heads and mayors want more power to manage freedom camping, including a national vehicle track and trace database. Tim Cadogan, mayor of Central Otago and member of the… Read more Audio
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Popular choc out of stock due to Covid-19
4:23 PM.As 2020 draws to a close it keeps delivering bad news - and this one is for chocolate lovers - Whittaker's has run out of stock of two of their most popular chocolate blocks, due to supply chain… Read more Audio
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Today in Music History
4:30 PM.American glam metal band Poison started a three-week run in the charts at No1, reaching no 8 in NZ with 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'. Audio
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Trump's Blackwater pardon sparks Iraqi ire
4:32 PM.Iraqis have reacted with outrage to Donald Trump's move to pardon four security guards from the security firm Blackwater who were jailed for a 2007 massacre that sparked an outcry over the use of… Read more Audio
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Last year for Whitianga's famous Christmas House
4:40 PM.This year will be the last of Mercury Bay's well-known and much-loved 'Christmas House' run by Gordon and the late Diana Barnaby. Read more Audio
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Dad sails back from Caribbean just in time for Xmas
4:48 PM.A family is being reunited just in time for Christmas, after a lengthy separation and an epic solo yachting trip from the Caribbean to Auckland. Dmitry Pelevin promised his 7-year-old son he would… Read more Audio
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'Support a Family' initiative helps Chch whanau
4:52 PM.Nearly 200 Christchurch whanau and Housing First clients (kaewa) will receive Christmas hampers and gifts through the Christchurch Methodist Mission's Support a Family initiative this year. The Panels… Read more Audio
