December 25, 2025 • 3 mins
The Midday Edition of News Fix for 26 December 2025, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talks Dby Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS in
this update. Hailstones in heavy rain could scuffer spending sprees
this Boxing Day. Severe thunderstorm watches are in place for
the Upper North Island and southeast South Island this afternoon
and into the evening. Hailstones of up to twenty millimeters
could hammer parts of Canterbury, Otago and Southland. Met Service
(00:27):
meteorologists Devin Lindon says things aren't looking much better tomorrow
for the South Island with more hail on the cards.
Definitely keeping the same kind of trend, but the North
Island tomorrow will be looking much better with low risk
of thun storms and more showery conditions. A message for
shoppers today on one of the busiest days of the year.
Spending ramped up thirteen percent last Boxing Day to reach
(00:50):
almost sixty eight million dollars, but retail and Zed is
warning aggression towards shop workers is still unacceptably high. Chief
executive Carolyn Jung's his customers are coming into the store
in an agitated state and it's heightened during a busy period.
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown says winning a second term in
a landslide victory was his absolute highlight of the year.
(01:13):
He scored a one hundred thousand vote majority over his
nearest appoonment, Karen Leone. He's putting his wind down to
his honesty, and I've carried on speaking the advanced truth
of my rather blug way. It turns out it's publicly
quite like it, even if my advisors are always saying, oh,
you can't take that. For summer. Brownie's telling on Auckland
is to get in the water. He says you can't
(01:34):
beat swimming or boating. In the City of Sales, accident
claims for biking and water related activities over the holidays
are trending downwards. Last summer, acc spent sixty two thousand
dollars on toy and game related claims. That's a drop
of almost thirty thousand dollars from twenty twenty. Injury prevention
(01:55):
lead James Whittaker says slowing down makes a difference. So
what we just people, no matter what you're going to
do and when and where you're going to do it,
thinks through first. That's news. In Sport, San Antonio have
racked up back to back wins over the Red Hot
defending champs in Basketball's NBA. The Spurs have beaten the
(02:17):
Thunder one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and two
in Oklahoma City, following up with a twenty point win
on Christmas Eve. Having started with just two defeats through
their first twenty seven games, Okasee have not now lost
three of their last four. Premier League Football club Nottingham
Forest and Warning the death of a club legend. Former
(02:38):
Scotland attacker John Robertson, has died age seventy two. Robertson
won the European Cup twice, with Forest scoring the only
goal in the nineteen eighty final. A sold outcrowd of
ninety five thousand people is pouring into the Melbourne Cricket
Ground for Day one of the Boxing Day Test. The
fourth Ashes clash features the return of Australian at star
(03:00):
Steve Smith, who missed their one over England and Adelaide
with vertigo symptoms That Sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news,
listen to News Talk said Be Live on iHeartRadio
From the News Talks Dby Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS in
this update. Hailstones in heavy rain could scuffer spending sprees
this Boxing Day. Severe thunderstorm watches are in place for
the Upper North Island and southeast South Island this afternoon
and into the evening. Hailstones of up to twenty millimeters
could hammer parts of Canterbury, Otago and Southland. Met Service
(00:27):
meteorologists Devin Lindon says things aren't looking much better tomorrow
for the South Island with more hail on the cards.
Definitely keeping the same kind of trend, but the North
Island tomorrow will be looking much better with low risk
of thun storms and more showery conditions. A message for
shoppers today on one of the busiest days of the year.
Spending ramped up thirteen percent last Boxing Day to reach
(00:50):
almost sixty eight million dollars, but retail and Zed is
warning aggression towards shop workers is still unacceptably high. Chief
executive Carolyn Jung's his customers are coming into the store
in an agitated state and it's heightened during a busy period.
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown says winning a second term in
a landslide victory was his absolute highlight of the year.
(01:13):
He scored a one hundred thousand vote majority over his
nearest appoonment, Karen Leone. He's putting his wind down to
his honesty, and I've carried on speaking the advanced truth
of my rather blug way. It turns out it's publicly
quite like it, even if my advisors are always saying, oh,
you can't take that. For summer. Brownie's telling on Auckland
is to get in the water. He says you can't
(01:34):
beat swimming or boating. In the City of Sales, accident
claims for biking and water related activities over the holidays
are trending downwards. Last summer, acc spent sixty two thousand
dollars on toy and game related claims. That's a drop
of almost thirty thousand dollars from twenty twenty. Injury prevention
(01:55):
lead James Whittaker says slowing down makes a difference. So
what we just people, no matter what you're going to
do and when and where you're going to do it,
thinks through first. That's news. In Sport, San Antonio have
racked up back to back wins over the Red Hot
defending champs in Basketball's NBA. The Spurs have beaten the
(02:17):
Thunder one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and two
in Oklahoma City, following up with a twenty point win
on Christmas Eve. Having started with just two defeats through
their first twenty seven games, Okasee have not now lost
three of their last four. Premier League Football club Nottingham
Forest and Warning the death of a club legend. Former
(02:38):
Scotland attacker John Robertson, has died age seventy two. Robertson
won the European Cup twice, with Forest scoring the only
goal in the nineteen eighty final. A sold outcrowd of
ninety five thousand people is pouring into the Melbourne Cricket
Ground for Day one of the Boxing Day Test. The
fourth Ashes clash features the return of Australian at star
(03:00):
Steve Smith, who missed their one over England and Adelaide
with vertigo symptoms That Sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news,
listen to News Talk said Be Live on iHeartRadio
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