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Health professionals are warning backlogs due to lockdown are causing a rise in cancers that could've been detected months earlier. After two years of lockdowns, the Ministry of Health says the backlog for regular breast screening has risen to 50,000. And skin cancer specialists says they're already seeing an increase in patients with more severe cancer due to delayed appointments. Louise Ternouth reports.
A teenager has completed a mammoth feat - rowing 1000km around the top of New Zealand. Nineteen-year-old Ben Mason's spent three weeks at sea raising more than $20,000 for the Breast Cancer Foundation. It's a cause close to his heart, after it took his mum's life when he was six years old. Reporter Louise Ternouth with camera operators Marika Khabazi and Nick Monro were there to see him reach dry land.
Why the TranzAlpine train across the South Island is truly one of NZ's great journeys Newshub 9/02/2021 © Provided by Newshub Out of all the places I visited around New Zealand last year, there is one experience that truly sums up the 'do something new' message that's become the slogan for domestic travel around Aotearoa. The TranzAlpine, operated by The Great Journeys of New Zealand from Christchurch to Greymouth, is a five-hour long smorgasbord of amazing scenery. After we departed Christchurch and the train wormed its way inland, hugging the Waimakariri River, we were treated to the st...