Black Ferns make history with back-to-back Olympic gold medals, a shocking stabbing in northwestern England, and how to catch a glimpse of this week's meteor showers.
1 Black Ferns Sevens players celebrate after 'surreal' gold medal win
The Black Ferns Sevens players are in celebration mode after securing New Zealand’s first medal at the Olympic Games in Paris.
The team won gold this morning after overcoming a resilient Canadian side — winning 19-12 after trailing 12-7 at the halftime break.
They are now back-to-back Olympic champions, having also claimed silver in 2016. Breakfast spoke to Jorja Miller after the game, who was celebrating a gold medal at her first Olympic tournament.
2 'No evidence' heated tobacco products will help smokers quit – expert
A health expert says he is concerned there is "no evidence" to show people who use heated tobacco products will go on to quit smoking.
Yesterday, Associate Health Minister Casey Costello — who is also Customs Minister — said the Government would set aside $216 million it may need to pay for a 50% cut to the excise tax on heated tobacco products, where tobacco is heated to a vapour rather than burned.
3 Polkinghorne murder trial: Check on rope under the spotlight
An Auckland detective has described the moment a "tension check" was carried out on a length of rope at Philip Polkinghorne and Pauline Hanna's Remuera home — and has been quizzed about why the test wasn't filmed.
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4 'Always our princess': Girls aged 6, 7 and 9 victims of dance class horror
Three young girls killed in a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class in northwestern England were identified overnight as police questioned the 17-year-old suspect arrested after the attack that wounded 10 others.
5 The best pie in New Zealand finally goes to a South Island bakery
For the first time, a baker from the South Island clinched the award for New Zealand's best pie.
Arlyn Thompson beat out more than 500 bakers and over 5000 pie entries with her slow-cooked Sumatra-style beef pie to win the Bakels NZ Supreme Pie Award for 2024.
ONE SET OF METEOR SHOWERS TO COME
Two meteor showers are set to light up New Zealand skies tonight as Earth passes by a cloud of comet debris.
Astrophysicist Nick Rattenbury told Breakfast this morning that it isn’t an unusual event, but having two meteor showers at once increases the chances of spotting something special.
ONE WAIT MANY CAN NOT AFFORD
New research pinpoints why it's getting harder for people to see a GP — and the Covid-19 pandemic is not the only reason, writes Jackie Cumming.
Kiwis’ first point of contact for healthcare – their general practice – is increasingly harder to reach, to the detriment of the overall health system.
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