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March 21, 2025 3 mins
The Morning Edition of News Fix for 22 March 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 Talk said the newsroom this is newsfacs.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
In this update. Flights at Heathrow Airport are set to
resume in the coming hours after an electricity substation fire
closed the entire airport. It caused disruption to two hundred
thousand passengers and it's expected to take days to clear
the backlog. Repatriation flights are the first to be prioritized today.

(00:28):
The BBC's Rich Preston says the airport has also said
flights will operate as normal tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Normal schedule tomorrow, but with the kind of nuts and
bolts added on the side that there's a lot of
making up needs to be on and a lot of
people left stranded who still need to get where they're going.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
New research is casting doubt over the usefulness of vapes
in tackling smoking. A study looking at twenty five years
of data on New Zealand teenagers shows there was a
steep decline in youth smoking right before vapes came on
the scene. Instead of displacing smoking, it suggests vapes are

(01:06):
a gateway to cigarettes for young people. Prime Minister Christopher
Luxon touchdown in Auckland early this morning on the back
of a productive visit to India if its were made
over the four days to expand tires across defense, tourism
and trade. Notably, Luckxeon's agreed with his Indian counterpartner and
Ramodi to kickstart free trade negotiations from next month. And

(01:31):
it's called the trip a great success. It's actually about
a successful New Zealand because ultimately what this relationship being
deepened and broadened is about is growing our economy. People
are still working from home despite many businesses dropping it
from their job ads. SEG data shows remote working listings
peaked at ten point three percent in September twenty twenty three.

(01:54):
They then steadily foiled to seven point five percent in
December last year. Matthew, Universe City Management and Maori business
professor Jared has says statsin z data shows one in
three kiwis still work remotely. He says some employers made
downplay the option, only bringing it up in the interview stage.
That's news to sport and an almost scoreless second half

(02:19):
has marred the Chiefs fifty thirty five Super Rugby Pacific
win over Moana Pacifica in Pukakoi. The Chiefs led forty
three to seven at the break before conceding twenty eight
unanswered points. Skipper Loop Jacobson told Skysport what went wrong.
We started to lack a little bit in some of
our set peace areas gave them the chance.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
They got some good wind in their sale.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Not quite how we wanted the second half to go,
but I'm happy to come away off the win. Snowboarder
Zoe Sudowski Senate has been crowned at Slope Style World
Champion for a third time. The twenty four year old
captured gold at the World Championships in Switzerland, posting a
top score of ninety point one point five in her
final run. That's sport, I'm Diana Visig. For more news,

(03:05):
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