MetService has a red warning in place for the thunderstorms - which it says will move toward the area around Te Aroha and Paeroa at 7pm and be accompanied by torrential rain and hail.

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25 Dec: A person's been airlifted to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, after a quad bike rolled over around 2.30pm at Northland's Pouto Point

25 Dec: A Coromandel holidaymaker is still in shock after a shark attacked his kayak 'completely out of the blue.'

25 Dec: A light aircraft has crashed into an unoccupied house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: The Civil Aviation Authority's investigating after a light aircraft crashed into a house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: Two people have been badly injured after a car crashed into a tree in Tolaga Bay, north of Gisborne, early this morning

24 Dec: State Highway One through Northland's Waipu is blocked following a crash - leaving 5 people injured, one seriously

24 Dec: One person's died following a house fire in New Plymouth overnight

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Rugby League:
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Entertainment:
Brooks Nader slept with Gleb Savchenko on the first day they met 12:20

International:
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Cricket:
Empathy for the English cricket team from what may seem an unlikely source 11:57

Entertainment:
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Entertainment:
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Soccer:
Premier League football club Nottingham Forest are mourning the death of a club legend 11:06

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Jelly Roll has been pardoned over his robbery and drug convictions 10:50

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