The Week in Review - week ending 26 October 2012

A review of the week's news, including... a judge throws out serious charges against 21 Nelson gang members because the police faked the arrest and prosecution of an undercover officer, Northland's hit with the vine-killing disease PSA, a depressing income forecast for farmers next year could result in some already cash-tight dairy farming businesses collapsing, the Secondary Principals Association says the Government is going soft on drugs by proposing law changes that would stop schools drug-testing students, or using dogs to search for drugs, a water quality scientist says New Zealand is a decade behind Europe in cleaning up our waterways, New Zealand veterans of the North Africa Campaign during the second World War are on their way home after attending the 70th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt and a mystery Sir Ed signature is re discovered.