Top Of The Morning News Digest

Wednesday, 8 July 2015, 1:03 pm
Press Release: NewsRoom_Plus

Top Of The Morning News Digest

* NewsRoom_Digest from 7 July 2015 available at Eveningreport.nz - see http://info.scoop.co.nz/EveningReport.nz

* RNZ 7am - Top 5 items for 8 July 2015

. Fonterra's first chief executive Craig Norgate, a man business colleagues describe as a visionary, has died at the age of 50. Mr Norgate, who became head of New Zealand’s biggest company when he was 36, died in Britain.

2. Snow and ice have closed a number of roads throughout the country, and the police are bracing themselves for a morning of weather-related crashes.

3. Table grapes imported from Mexico have been withdrawn from New Zealand supermarket shelves because of the discovery of black widow and other venomous spiders. The Ministry of Primary Industries have confirmed 10 spiders were found in two consignments of grapes, and it is investigating.

4. The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has launched a desperate bid to win fresh aid at an emergency eurozone summit, before his country’s banks run out of money. But, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel is saying there is no basis for reopening negotiations with Athens, and she warns there are only days not weeks left before Greece collapses.

5. A budgeting executive says that census data on the number of people living in boarding houses is just the tip of the iceberg. The data from the 2013 census showed that more than 2500 people were living in boarding houses at the time, about half of them in Auckland.

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