Morning Edition: 18 April 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talks headby Newsroom. This is newsfacs. In
this update, thousands are waking up without power and a
person was rescued from their car as floodwaters rose on
the Corimandal Peninsula. Foreign emergency was called to State Highway
twenty five shortly before nine pm to rescue a person
from their vehicle. Part of the highway remains closed. Meanwhile,

(00:26):
around six thousand Northland residents remain in the dark. Met
Service meteorologist Lewis Ferris's rain and wind intensity should ease
in Auckland and Northland, but other areas won't be as lucky.
We will see continued heavy rain through Corimandel. They have
plenten over into northern parts of Gisbone as well. Twice
convicted double murderer Mark Lundy is set to continue fighting

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for his innocence after being granted parole. He's spent more
than twenty three years behind bars for the killing of
his wife Christine and seven year old daughter Amber and
their Parmas North home in August two thousand. Lundy will
be released from prison next month's subject to a list
of conditions. Open Justice reporter Jeremy Wilkinson says Lundy, alongside

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his lawyer and supporters, have lodged a case with the
Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Which is reviewing his case and it has the power
to send his case back to the Court of Appeal,
which has an avenue for him to continue to clear
his name.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Donald Trump says the United States has already made tremendous
amounts of money from tariffs. The US presidents hosting Italian
Prime Minister Georgia Maloney at the White House. She's the
first European leader to visit Washington since Trump brought in
twenty percent tariffs on the EU, which have been paused
for ninety days. Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump says

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money being made from tariffs is astronomical.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
We were treated very unfairly on trade, and the countries
are having a hard time getting used to the fact
that they can't do that to us anymore because we
have a real president.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Dunedin's Gasworks Museum will be cordoned off and closed over
the weekend because of concerns about its chimney. There are
cracks in the upper part of the chimney which are
being investigated. That's news in Sport. The legendary paulsha Woodman
Wickliffe has scored and what is almost certainly her final
professional rugby match, helping the Blues snare the inaugural Women's

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Super Rugby Australasian title by crushing the Waratar's thirty six
to five at a soggy North Harbour Stadium. Liverpool skipper
Virgil Van Dyck has re signed with the Premier League
leaders for another two years. The Dutch defender has joined
key attacker Moe Sulla in recommitting until the end of
the twenty twenty six twenty seven season. The Mumbai Indians,

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featuring a Kiwis, trend Bolt and Mitch Santna, have risen
to seventh on the IPL table after beating Sunrises Hydrabad
by four wickets at home, their third win in seven
matches this season. A Man Is slumped to a third
straight NRL loast, beaten at home twenty eighteen by Saint
George Ellawara. That's Sport. I'm Jody Gill. For more news,

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