Morning Edition: 25 August 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 25 August 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning. I'm never Retty Manu and this is your
morning news fix for Monday, twenty fifth of August. In
this update, the new director of the Royal New Zealand
Police College is eyeing up changes to the training regime
after concerns were revealed about officers preparedness. A survey of
training officers released to our newsroom found fifty five percent

(00:27):
feel new cops were barely or not at all well
equipped with knowledge of arrest and chart procedures. Superintendent Sam
Ket says the feedback highlights the need to improve in
a number of areas. He says a curriculum review is
underway with changes planned for early next year. A clear
message around driving under the influence. After the jailing of

(00:49):
a twenty year old for killing one of his friends
in a crash, Alexander Lucas Kerr has been sentenced to
twenty seven months in prison after his friend died and
the other was severe injured. Kerr had cannabis in his
system when he crashed his car in a semi rural
part of Havelock North on January tewod criminal lawyer Steve

(01:09):
Cullen told Ryan Bridge this is a stark warning of
what can happen given that the starting points in the
vicinity of four and a half to five years imprisonment.
There's an inevitability that anybody caught in that type of
situation will find themselves behind bars. The trial of a
man accused of five counts of murder and two counts
of arsen begins in the Capitol today. Wellington's Loafer's Lodge

(01:32):
broke out in flames in May twenty twenty three just
after midnight, killing five people. The man has interim name
suppression and it's believed he may pursue a defense of
insanity in the High Court. Police have been speaking with
a woman believed to be the mother of a baby
whose body was found in Auckland's Albert Park. A council

(01:52):
contractor discovered the newborn about seven yesterday morning. Detective Senior
Sergeant Ash Matthews says officers being carrying out a scene
examination and a post mortem will take place this week.
Auckland Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson says it's extremely distressing and
her thoughts go out to all those affected. The Ministry

(02:12):
of Education spending record amounts of money on vandalism repairs,
almost nine point seven million dollars has been set aside
for schools this year, seventeen percent more than five years ago.
In total, vandals of cost tanks pays about fifty seven
million dollars since twenty twenty. That includes top up funding.
In the last financial year, seven hundred and sixty five

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thousand dollars of this was given to schools hit the hardest.
The Ministry says it doesn't track vandalism related costs as
boards are responsible for managing the damage. The promise of
reinvention for New Zealand Fashion Week, opening on Auckland's waterfront today,
emerging designers will decorate the runway with their collections in
a display of the ever changing and dynamic fashion landscape.

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Board director Liam Taylor sees a lot of thoughts gone
into Fashion Week's role in the wider retail industry. In sport,
Kazumikabori has achieved the best result of his golfing career
with a second equal finish at the British Masters, earning
five hundred and twenty three thousand dollars. The Black Ferns
have dominated Spain in their opening Rugby World Cup Mansion York.

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The Broncos have jumped to fifth and guaranteed a playoff
spot on the NRL League Ladder after beating the night's
forty six twelve in Newcastle. Twenty twenty one Women's champion
Emma Raticanu has advanced in straight sets on the first
day of singles at the US Tennis Open. I'm never
ATTYMNU that your latest news fix will be back with

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the next update at midday from the newstalk ZB Newsroom