Nights

Duncan Blakley is used to turning heads, or at least he is when out in his 1965 Ford Falcon - a beautiful white car with pristine red leather seats and chrome detailing. He's less accustomed, however, to being part of an internet sensation. It's been a few days since a social media post blew up and Duncan learned the Falcon was the subject of a nation-wide search.

Suddenly coming into money isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, according to a financial expert who helps people cope with unexpected windfalls of cash.

Sports commentator Bryan Waddle joins us again for a wrap of the latest sport news from the weekend and looking ahead over the next week or so.

Paper tickets on the capital city's rail network came to an end when Snapper travel cards were launched at the end of last year. But that history won't be lost after the Greater Regional Wellington Regional Council gave many of the items to the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. The society's director Bill Prebble joins Nights.

Just when parts of the country were getting used to some fine weather, the forecast for the weekend is looking decidedly dreary. MetService meteorologist David Miller shares the latest forecast.

It stood for 257 years and became affectionately known as Britain's "wonkiest pub", but the historic Crooked House pub in England's West Midlands has been reduced to a mound of rubble. The 18th-century building was last weekend gutted by fire. Two days later what remained was demolished. Ian Sandall, of the Save the Crooked House campaign, talks to Mark Leishman about the historic pub.

Film fanatic Ryan Howard built a fully-functioning replica of the robot from the 1986 film Short Circuit He built the 200kg robot during lockdown, and says it helped him through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Across the Tasman in Australia two new mammal species been discovered in the Pilbara region of northwest Western Australia. The discovery of the orange-headed and the cracking-clay planigales means there are now six species of the tiny marsupials found in Australia. To help unpack the discovery and explain where the the marsupials have been hiding I'm joined Nights is joined by Dr Linette Umbrello from the Queensland University of Technology.

Right now in Singapore hundreds of Wikipedians, the site's volunteer editors, have gathered for the annual Wikimania conference. It's chance to celebrate the project, discuss important issues, and geek out with other wiki lovers - including a strong kiwi contingent.. Among the New Zealanders attending is Siobhan Leachman from Wellington who was awarded this year's Wikimedia Laureate. She talks to Nights about the award and what motivates her to volunteer her time editing the online encyclopaedia.

When you think of clams, you generally think seafood or perhaps thoughts of a nice chunky chowder but there are clams and there are clams and the freshwater gold clam is not one to cherish and it is starting to cause huge issues in the Waikato. The clams are officially deemed an "unwanted organism" and can damage native species and clog water intakes. And at the weekend the size of the problem became much clearer after the levels at Lake Karapiro lowered. Mighty River Domain manager and Waipa's deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk was there and joins Nights to explain the scale of the problem.