30 Mar 2018

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Mar 30 2018

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 30 March 2018

A review of the week's news including... the Prime Minister stands by her Broadcasting Minister in the wake of the resignation of senior RNZ news executive Carol Hirschfeld, all cattle with the disease Mycoplasma bovis will be culled by the end of May as three properties are raided by the Ministry for Primary Industries, Jacinda Ardern asks for official advice on whether there are any people of Russian origin who should be refused entry to New Zealand in the wake of the nerve agent poisoning attack in the UK, Air New Zealand wants prison sentences for drone pilots involved in life-threatening near misses with aircraft as a pilot and his passenger have a narrow escape after colliding mid air with what they believe was a drone, the lives of an estimated eight people have been saved in the first eight months of bowel screening, a 20 metre wide 5 metre deep trench in the road just north of Kaitaia has off the only public road to Cape Reinga, the Marine Industry says new jobs have already been created and economic benefits are already being felt from the America's Cup being held in Auckland in 2021, the family of a mother of two shot dead by her boyfriend yelled "thank you" as the jurors left the court room, Dunedin has become Dun-ED-in and Sir Bob Jones on the Parker-Joshua fight.