"I've never wanted to do that" - Dave Brown Buttabean Letele on cutting food parcel supplies. Snow for skiing? Working as a surgeon in New Zealand's health system, too many starlings

Financial pressure on funders means Dave Brown Buttabean Letele is having to cut support to 500 families using his food parcel service, but he is now turning to helping people get into work.

This interview does cover issues of mental health and suicide. Here are some contact numbers for assistance if you or anyone you know needs help

Where to get help

1737, Need to talk? Free call or text 1737 to talk to a trained counsellor.

Anxiety New Zealand 0800 ANXIETY (0800 269 4389)

Depression.org.nz 0800 111 757 or text 4202

Lifeline 0800 543 354

Rural Support Trust 0800 787 254

Samaritans 0800 726 666

Suicide Crisis Helpline 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO)

Yellow Brick Road 0800 732 825

thelowdown.co.nz Web chat, email chat or free text 5626

What's Up 0800 942 8787 (for 5 to 18-year-olds). Phone counselling available Monday-Friday, noon-11pm and weekends, 3pm-11pm. Online chat is available 3pm-10pm daily.

Youthline 0800 376 633, free text 234, email [email protected], or find online chat and other support options here.

If it is an emergency, click here to find the number for your local crisis assessment team.

In a life-threatening situation, call 111.

New research out this morning suggests the snow cover on our skifields could be cut in half in decades to come, the memoirs of a surgeon on working in New Zealand's health system and the plague of starlings affecting an English village.