Midday Edition: 05 July 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 05 July 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):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Friday, the fifth of July. Early UK
polling results are starting to roll. In a media exit
poll shows Sir Keir Starmer's Labor Party is likely to
achieve a historic victory in what's shapping up to be
the Conservative's worst result in history. Labour's taken the first win,

(00:25):
with Bridget Phillipson scoring the Houghton and Sunderland's South seat
and likely to become Education secretary. Party deputy leader Angela
Rayner told BBC if she becomes Deputy Prime Minister today,
it will be a privilege. The ability and the opportunity
to serve the British people and to bring about that
change that they're desperate far would be an absolute privilege

(00:47):
for me, but I'm not counting my chickens. Final results
are expected later this afternoon. A second person has been
found dead after a house fire early yesterday in Southland's
Mana Pode. Emergency services will call to the single story
View Street home and told that people could be inside,
Emily Ansel reports.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Detective Sergeant Mark McCloy says they're methodically looking for any occupants.
He says, alongside Fens, they'll continue efforts in coming days
to establish if anyone else was inside. The fire's cause
remains under investigation.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
The Transport Ministers revealed the first new roads of national
significance to be prioritized the government's promised seventeen major routes
in its transport investment plan for the next ten years.
Simeon Brown says construction partners are being engaged for the
first phase, focusing on seven roads. He says that includes
the Belfast Pigasus Motorway and the wood End Bypass for

(01:44):
christ Church, the.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Hawks Bay Expressway, State Highway I, Cambridge to Paddy State
Highway in twenty nine, Totyco Taketimu Northern Link Stage two,
Mill Road Stage one and Walkworth to Wralsford.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Meanwhile, Auckland Council has voted against government proposed RULs to
raise speeds on certain roads and lift limits around schools
outside pick up and drop off times. The government has
the final say. Councilor Julie Ferry questioned why slower limits
would only stretch about one hundred and fifty meters from schools,
saying kids are vulnerable much further out. Further job cuts

(02:20):
are being signaled at the Ministry of Justice, Corrections and
the Office for Crown Muori Relations. Thousands of roles across
the public sector have either been cut or are planned
to be scrapped due to cost savings. Promising signs are
head for the economy, though although households mightn't feel the
difference for a few years, the ASB household sector outlook

(02:43):
is hinting it's a possibility that interest rates could ease
later this year. Fakatanes Mayor has asked the Prime Minister
to intervene over Fakhari White Island, concerned that g and
S Science's lack of access for monitoring the island puts
local communities at risk. Shortland Street is going ahead with
its thirty third season with a cutdown format. New Zealand's

(03:07):
longest running soap will air three nights a week from
February instead of five, with support from New Zealand on
Air and the screen production Grant to Sport. All Blacks
Vice Captain Ardi Savia believes a sense of the unknown
has heightened the energy and camp ahead of tomorrow's opening
rugby test of the year against England. A poignant moment

(03:29):
for the British crowd at Wimbledon with Andy Murray's exit
from the doubles on center court with brother Jamie, he's
unlikely to appear at the Grand Slam in the future.
I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at five pm from the
newstalk ZB newsroom.