The Panel

The soft drink company Mountain Dew has made a bit of a faux pas by not being especially up-to-speed with Scottish slang? What the Panelists Jock Anderson and Amanda Millar want to talk about. Winston Peters has commissioned a review by Australia stud owner John Messara to review the NZ racing industry which has been in an ailing state in the past 10 years. The British government plans to restrict the sale of energy drinks - it has yet to decide whether it's to over-16s or over-18s. Meanwhile, South Korea is planning to ban the sale of coffee in schools. What's with this war on caffeine?!Professor Katsuhiro Nishinari from the University of Tokyo is a jamologist - he studies traffiic jams and he thinks he has the secret to rendering traffric jams a thing of the past. Auckland bus drivers are going on strike to protest their inhospitable hours. Is it time for councils to re-think the idea that cheapest is best?

What the Panelists Verity Johnson and Peter Dunne want to talk about.

A new study suggests that while women gain their licences slightly slower than men, they're superior drivers in almost every other metric.

Two nights ago Te Puna Quarry Park had tens-of-thousands of dollars' worth of equipment stolen. Its founder Shirley Sparks, joins us to explain what's been taken, and the reaction of the staff and volunteers who work there.

The Australian media have picked up the Pak 'n' Save' gaffe in Porirua, where Steinlager and Corona were being advertised on special under a banner proclaiming "Good Health Week.

It's NZ Fashion week, and this weekend some special guests will be gracing the catwalk - the volunteers, staff, doctors and nurses of Mercy Hospice, donning some of the hospice's second-hand store's wares.

Australia is likely to ban Chelsea Manning - we are likely to let her in. Why are we taking a different tack to this compared to our Antipodean neighbours?

Abby Hartley lies gravely ill in a Balinese hospital, and her insurance company is refusing to help because her illness stemmed from a pre-existing condition. Southern Cross travel insurance chief executive Chris White joins us to explain exactly what a pre-existing condition is, and what you should disclose when buying travel insurance.

We know what is happening with confederate statues in the American south. Now the friendliest man in Hamilton, so-called because people pose with him in a variety of situations, Captain John Charles Fane Hamilton himself, has been defaced with red paint and his face battered with a hammer. His nose was smashed, among other indignities.

We know what is happening with confederate statues in the American south. Now the friendliest man in Hamilton, so-called because people pose with him in a variety of situations, Captain John Charles Fane Hamilton himself, has been defaced with red paint and his face battered with a hammer. His nose was smashed, among other indignities. Abby Hartley lies gravely ill in a Balinese hospital, and her insurance company is refusing to help because her illness stemmed from a pre-existing condition. Southern Cross travel insurance chief executive Chris White joins us to explain exactly what a pre-existing condition is, and what you should disclose when buying travel insurance. Two nights ago Te Puna Quarry Park had tens-of-thousands of dollars' worth of equipment stolen. Its founder Shirley Sparks, joins us to explain what's been taken, and the reaction of the staff and volunteers who work there.