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March 7, 2026 2 mins
The Morning Edition of News Fix for 08 March 2026, 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 (00:02):
From the News Talk Zebby newsroom. This is Newsfix.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
In this update, US President Donald Trump says the US
is doing very well in Iran. There's war in the
Middle East enters its second week. Trump says he's now
considering widening the areas and groups of people being targeted,
and Iram will be hit very hard. Today. Trump says
they've knocked out forty two Iranian navy ships in three days.
That was the end of the navy.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
We knocked out their air force.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
We knocked out their communications and all telecommunications is gone.
Family members of former Prime Minister David Longi say his
remains in headstone have been removed in mysterious circumstances. Longee,
who served as Prime Minister from nineteen eighty four to
nineteen eighty nine, died in two thousand and five at
the age of sixty three. His ashes were buried at

(00:50):
Waikaraka Park Cemetery in Auckland's oni Hunga. His widow, Margaret Pope,
has confirmed she sought to have her late husband's headstone
taken from the cemetery, but won't say he lies. Auckland
Council confirmed the headstone had been removed by the family
with nothing suspicious around it. David Longe's brother Peter says
he was disappointed to learn his brother is no longer

(01:11):
resting at the cemetery, saying none of the other family
knew about it either. And blind Low Vision. New Zealand
is highlighting attacks on guide dogs by roaming dogs as
it launches its Guide Dog Puppy Appeal fundraiser. The organization
says is a growing national shortage of fully trained dogs,
with some people facing years long delays to be matched.

(01:31):
Chief Executive Andrea Midgens his five dogs were attacked in
December and another three in January. That's news. The sports
and top seed port Cole is through to the final
at the New Zealand Squash Open in christ Church. The
West Coaster has beaten Aircup Hard as three games to
love working hard after a late start, team off ten

(01:53):
two hours late, so I really had to just make
sure I was switched on mentally for that one. The
race for the Six Nations Crown has been thrown wide
open after Scotland beat France fifty to forty in Edinburgh,
and Premier League Leader's Arsenal through to the FA Cup
quarterfinals after a two to one win over thirty in
Mansfield Town at sport. I'm Diana Vesig.

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