Top Of The Morning News Digest

Monday, 10 August 2015, 9:55 am
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Top Of The Morning News Digest

* NewsRoom_Digest from 7 August 2015 available at Eveningreport.nz - see http://info.scoop.co.nz/EveningReport.nz and http://newsroom-nz.tumblr.com

* RNZ 7am - Top 5 items for 10 August 2015

1. A major city hospital has been found to have breached a baby boy’s rights by failing to diagnose meningitis until it was too late. Two junior doctors at Wellington Hospital failed to recognise the signs of meningitis in 3- month old William Burton when his parents took him to the emergency department with a high temperature on consecutive days in October 2013. The boy was left without sight, speech and movement.

2. The Labour Party is warning that banks could soon be forcing dairy farmers to sell their land, and that overseas investors will buy it up. Fonterra has slashed its forecast payout for the season to $3.85 per kilo of milk solids - far below the break-even point for most dairy farmers.

3. A Professor of Agribusiness at Massey University says now is not the time for costly energy switching by Fonterra. Coal Action Aotearoa says Fonterra should emulate Genesis Energy, which has promised to stop burning coal by 2018, and help the country reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

4. Maori leaders Tukoroirangi Morgan and Ken Mair have played a key role in preventing a strike at eight AFFCO meatworks around the North Island. About one thousand meatworkers were set to walk off the job this morning because almost two years of negotiations between the company and the union had failed.

5. The American billionaire Donald Trump has hit back at critics who say he went too far with comments about a US television news anchor, insisting no apology is necessary. Mr Trump came under fire for criticising Fox anchor Megyn Kelly for her tough questions during and after a Republican debate. Asked about Kelly in a CNN interview afterwards, Trump said: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."

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