Dan Cleaver News Today

Michael Bracewell takes a hat-trick as New Zealand enjoy a comfortable 88-run win over Ireland in the second of three Twenty20 internationals in Belfast.

Northland has locked in a summer in the red zone, with gathering limits set to stay in place across the rohe. For businesses, it's another burn on top of being cut off from much of the country, with the region's nearest neighbours, Auckland, in lockdown for months on end. But others are relieved the toughest restrictions are staying in place - hoping it will slow any spread of Covid in the north. Our reporter Sam Olley and cameraman Sam Rillstone have this story from the Bay of Islands.