The Panel

Free trade, lap top noise, and MyLotto.

Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud expects that one day houses will just end up being toilet blocks as the trend is for there to be a loo for every bedroom - and then some. How many toilets does a house need? What the Panelists Catherine Robertson and Scott Campbell want to talk about. The latest quality of life survey reports that Christchurch and Hamilton are the saddest cities, with Tauranga and Wellington rated the happiest. Eighty-four per cent of people surveyed felt positive about their quality of life. Thirty per cent said it had improved over the past year but 25 per cent believe their city has become a worse place to live. A tweet by a high school student in the US about not forcing kids to make presentations in front of the class has gone viral. Nerves is one thing but anxiety is another. We ask Toastmaster David O'Brien what it's like to suffer from debilitating nervousness about speaking and how he overcame it. Tech firm Apple has unveiled its latest devices at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino. There's been extensive media coverage of the news releases for hours leading up to the event. Is it much ado about nothing? It's just a phone or a tablet afterall.

Janine Reu-Taueki who works at a McDonalds in Hamilton says she was told by management not to speak te reo because of complaints from customers and staff.The rationale is that it was rude of her to converse this way.

A deli worker in the US is being charged after chomping through nearly $13,000 of ham over eight years. And. A study in Nature Sustainability has demonstrated that vegetarian or pescatarian diets can reduce a country's water footprint by up to half. This has led to the idea of a "meat tax".

A top floor apartment at 2 Churton Street in the Auckland suburb of Parnell has sold for a record breaking $9.25m off-the-plan. Alistair Helm is a former chief executive at Realestate.co.nz now with Bayleys Real Estate and says this sale isn't really surprising.

It's been slow progress. Getting the Dunedin City Council to act on advice that items had gone missing from the Dunedin Chinese Garden. But now Police are to review the findings of the Council's investigation.Ian Melvin is the former head gardener at the Chinese Garden and tells his story.

What the Panelists Mike Rehu and Michael Moynihan want to talk about.

Google Chrome is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a browsing partner this month. It's telling internet users via its "Don't Be a Browser" campaign to not just gawk at it and don't let the world pass you by.

Lonely Planet has been na,ed as New Zealand's top destination.What they liked was art-house cinemas and live music. The seven contributing writers said Wellington is big on the unexpected and unconventional.

The First Union says up to 40 jobs are going at the JNL mill at Kaitaia and they're worried it's the begining of the end.It's the second round of layoffs at JNL this year after the company shed 100 jobs at its Gisborne mill.