Midday Report Essentials for Friday 14 March 2025

In today's episode, parole proceedings for convicted double murderer Scott Watson have had to be abandoned, and a new date set, after the hearing ran out of time, Half of all buildings in South Dunedin are at risk of flooding from rainfall, with the risk to still increase massively over the next 75 years, Te Matatini has released 53 waiata performed at this year's festival, Fish of the Year is "o-fish-ally" back for 2025 with the Orange Roughy in the lead as voting nears its end, and in World Watch we hear from Scotland's first Muslim MP who has marked the sixth anniversary of the 2019 Christchurch terror attacks in the UK parliament.