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Foodstuffs has confirmed 180 roles at Victoria Park’s New World supermarket will be disestablished after a fire three weeks ago.However it said the timeframe for when redundancy would take effect has been extended to provide more time to support each team member finding a new role.First Union told Checkpoint employees will now be paid up until August 4 – which is longer than they expected.Eighty jobs have been earmarked at the Pt Chevalier New World and another 100 jobs were available through 14 Foodstuffs North Island stores via a “jobs expo” the company had organised.If the affected staff were employed…
A leading advocate for junior doctors says she is dreading the day when a hospital worker is killed.After a staff member was held up at gunpoint outside Palmerston North Hospital in April, RNZ has heard from many health workers who do not feel safe on the job.Health New Zealand says it is continuously improving security, and taking on feedback about this, but unions representing hospital workers say problems persist.New Zealand Resident Doctors’ Association national secretary Dr Deborah Powell said junior doctors, who were often on the frontlines at emergency departments, were reporting physical and verbal abuse at work becoming routine.”The…
ADVERTISEMENTNearly four months ago, the European Commission asked citizens to put together a survival kit to ensure they had enough food, medicines, and stored power to weather an unforeseen crisis. Now they’re asking member states to check whether their own kits are fit for purpose. As part of its Stockpiling Strategy, the EU executive on Wednesday called on member states to take stock of their strategic reserves and identify gaps and best practices that could be strengthened to bolster the bloc’s preparedness against natural disasters, human-infused disasters but also hybrid attacks or conflicts. “The goal is again, very simple, to…
The Reserve Bank is widely tipped to leave the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 3.25% later today, signalling a pause after six consecutive cuts.Economists caution that a rate cut may be warranted — but the Monetary Policy Committee is likely to wait for clearer inflation signals before it makes a move.ANZ chief economist Sharon Zollner said the bank should cut rates this week based on the data but she believed the committee would decide to wait for more data on inflation before making its next move.”The decision is far from simple and, at 20%, we think the market is…
A senior doctors’ union says it’s frightening how close Health NZ came to axing a section of maternity beds at Wellington Hospital.Health NZ announced yesterday it would no longer use maternity and gynaecology beds for emergency department overflow, after RNZ revealed the proposed trial on Monday.The news was welcomed by one expectant new mum as well as senior doctors’ union, the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS), which said the U-turn was the right decision.ASMS industrial officer Jane Lawless said Health NZ could not fix a crisis in New Zealand’s emergency departments by creating crises in hospital wards.”We had a…
By Euronews Published on 09/07/2025 – 8:35 GMT+2•Updated 9:21ADVERTISEMENTRussia launched a record 728 drones against multiple Ukrainian cities overnight , Ukrainian air forces said on Wednesday. Defence systems destroyed 718 of the drones and seven cruise missiles, the air force posted on Telegram, in what appears to be one of Moscow’s largest assaults on Ukraine in the three-year war. Dozens of Russian attack drones and ballistic missiles targeted regions in Ukraine’s far-west, with overhead drones reported in the cities of Lutsk, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, and Ternopil.The western city of Lutsk was hit hard in the attack, according to local media, with explosions…
Foodstuffs has confirmed 180 roles at Victoria Park’s New World supermarket in Auckland will be disestablished after a fire three weeks ago. However it said the timeframe for when redundancy would take effect has been extended to provide more time to support each team member finding a new role. First Union told RNZ’s Checkpoint programme today employees will now be paid up until August 4 – longer than they expected. Eighty jobs have been earmarked at the Pt Chevalier New World and another 100 jobs were available through 14 Foodstuffs North Island stores via a “jobs expo” the company had organised.…
A 10-year-old tourist died in Fiordland National Park due to “an accidental slip, during a happy family journey which had appalling consequences”, a coroner says.Tegan Chen, of Lindfield, New South Wales, last year drowned in the fast-flowing Marian Creek, in the Hollyford Valley, after she fell in and was swept downstream.In findings released on Wednesday morning, Coroner Mary-Anne Borrowdale described Chen as “a very active and happy girl”.”She was brave and expressive. She loved horse riding, dancing, and performing for her family and friends. She had written many song lyrics,” Borrowdale said.The fall happened on Lake Marian Falls Track, in…
CCTV footage shows murder-accused Julia DeLuney changed her clothes on the night of her mother’s death, before fetching someone to help.She is accused of murdering her mother, 79-year-old Helen Gregory, in the woman’s home in Khandallah, Wellington, on January 24, 2024 — to which DeLuney has pleaded not guilty.The high court jury was shown a number of video clips of DeLuney coming and going from her mother’s Baroda Street house.CCTV footage from BP Johnsonville shows her arriving at 5.47pm — on the way to her mother’s — wearing blue jeans and a vivid green shirt. She is seen putting petrol…
By Farah Hancock of RNZ A newly-appointed KiwiRail board director is associated with an Otago company which donated to NZ First. Scott O’Donnell is one of the four directors of Dynes Transport Tapanui, which donated $20,000 to NZ First in July 2024. The company is also involved in a project which recently received a government regional infrastructure loan of $8 million. Political scientist Bryce Edwards said even though party donations are not considered to be a conflict of interest, he believed it was a “perfect storm” of factors, which can erode trust in the political system. “It’s definitely this type…