1Jeremy George McLaughlin, the man who murdered 13 year old Christchurch schoolgirl Jade Bayliss, is already planning his appeal after being jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 23 years. The case has also highlighted a strange failure in the deportation rules between Australian and New Zealand which allowed the convicted murderer to return to New Zealand after serving jail time in Australia for the murder of Phillip Vidot with no one being informed of his violent past.

2A group of small business owners have seen no returns for the money they spent on an audio-visual advertising campaign run by a company called Plasma-Tech. The advertisements should have been playing on a television screen inside the Whangaparoa Golf Club, but spot checks found that the TV was always turned off. What is going on?

3The Red Vented Bulbul has made the list of the Top 100 Most Invasive Species in the World. Five of them managed to get into Auckland from a boat and have made their home in the city, where they are causing havoc. The Conservation Minister has now offered a reward for information leading to their capture.