Morning Edition: 21 July 2026

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 21 July 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning, I'm never Retti Manu and this is your
morning news fix for Tuesday, twenty first of July. In
this update, Britain has a new prime minister, with Andy
Burnham becoming the country's fifth leader in four years. The
former Manchester mayor and Labour Cabinet minister was formally invited
by King Charles to form a government at Buckingham Palace overnight.

(00:27):
Speaking outside ten Downing Street, Burnham says he's acutely aware
he's the country's seventh prime minister since twenty sixteen. He
says this is a moment for reflection and new resolutions,
requiring politicians to raise their game and rise to the challenge.
The government says some council EWE agreements have gone beyond

(00:48):
the initial intention of the law allowing them. Existing EWI
partnerships will be tossed out with new planning laws, despite
the Government initially planning to allow councils to keep existing
agreements ari may reform. Parliamentary Under Secretary Simon Court says
the agreements were initially supposed to be about planning matters,

(01:08):
He told Ryan Bridge. In some cases it instead shifted
to co governance models. Court says there were expanded roles
in appointments at the rate pays expense. We'll learn more
today about how the war on Iran has affected New
Zealand's inflation stats. N Z is releasing its latest CPI
headline inflation rate at ten forty five this morning, comparing

(01:31):
prices between April and June against the same period last year.
Economists expect it will have surged to four to four
point one percent. That would be the highest in two years,
but well below some previous forecasts, which reached four point nine.
Hopes the government's sixty million dollar pledge to keep golden
based cement pumping will be the catalyst for regulatory change.

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The fun at A plant supplies sixty percent of the
country's concrete and is our only cement manufacturing facility. Owner
Fletcher Building was toying with a move to imports, but
is now committed to investing at least one hundred and
fifty million dollars itself in the plant by at least
twenty forty The Employees of Manufacturers Association's Alan McDonald says

(02:15):
we need to consider looking at our critical industries and
how they provide the country with resilience injuries relating to
buses are costing ACC millions of dollars each year. ACC
data released a news doorg zb shows claims totaled almost
seven point eight million dollars last year and are on

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track to reach seven point four million this year. Injury
numbers this year are on track to be twenty percent
higher than in twenty twenty three. They're rising faster in
Auckland and one Owatu Wanganui, but more slowly in Canterbury,
Wycuttor and Wellington. Numbers are dropping in Otago and Bay
of Plenty. In sport Chasing, the Fox organizer Nick Randall,

(02:59):
as planning for expansion to the fifth edition of the
event on December eleventh, now that Ryan Fox is the
British Open champion. The independent agency carrying out Tour de
France's anti doping tests on the leaders at the likes
of two am and five am on Sunday is standing
by their decision, saying correct procedures were followed. Kevin Keegan,

(03:21):
one of English football's most charismatic figures as both a
player and manager, has died of cancer aged seventy five.
I'm Nevaretti Marno and that your latest news fix. We'll
be back with the next update at midday from the
newstalk zb news room.