Afternoon Edition: 24 August 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 24 August 2024, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
On the news talks edby Newsroom this is NEWSFACS. In
this update, Auckland police have cordoned off an area in
Blockhouse Bay and opened a homicide investigation into an incident.
At least four dog units and armed police have been
seen at the Blockhouse Bay tennis club and a recreational
reserve on Rathland Street. A man working near the tennis
club says police had arrived at his workplace to investigate

(00:27):
what they called an alleged assault. New Zealand firefighters are
continuing to battle wildfires alongside their Canadian counterparts. A seven
person incident management team, which left on July twenty one,
arrived home this morning. A further twenty one New Zealanders
remain on the ground to help control hundreds of wildfires
raging across British Columbia. Fire An Emergency Deputy National Commander

(00:50):
Brendan Nally says there are currently eight hundred and twenty
six active fires. There was well over nine point but
they've lost about five point two million season. Italian authorities
have switched into investigation mode as they pieced together how
the Supiot Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily. All
seven bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the

(01:12):
British flagged yacht after it was caught in a heavy
storm on Monday. As British officials work to establish a
timeline of events, local media report Italian prosecutors who are
investigating manslaughter and shipwrecked chargers, but maritime investigator James Wilke
says there has to be diplomatic cooperation between both England
and Italy. The first weekend of the largest Winter Pride

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celebration in the Southern Hemisphere is underway, starting as Gay
Ski Week in two thousand three. Than Our eleven day
Winter Pride Festival in Queenstown brings together fifty plus events
ranging from skiing to snowboarding, djays and dance parties. Winter
Pride Limited owner Sam Coulthard says this is their twenty
first year and everyone's welcome the center for a long time.

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This is our first year of owning it. Very very
important part to our community and the love and acceptance
from all the businesses and what Wingstown has to offer.
That's news. In sport, Teano Tennase eight Lulusun is one
win away from a maiden WTA singles title. The twenty
three year old through to the final of the Monterey
Open in Mexico. Soon is on the verge of becoming

(02:20):
the first New Zealander to win a WTA singles title
since Marina Irakovich in twenty thirteen. She'll played check Linda
Noskova in tomorrow's final. The Tasman Markoor have won their
third straight game in Rugby's NPC. Tasman's up to third
after a forty eight three winnover County's Monaco in Pokekoe.
In the Farah Palmer Cub Women's Premiership, the County's Monaco

(02:42):
Heat beat the Bay of Plenty Volcanics forty one thirty
one in Fakatane, and the Auckland Storm also won, beating
Canterbury forty three twenty seven in christ Church. That's Sport.
I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to News Talks.
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