Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include a divers close call with a very big shark, a woman out of pocket after a Facebook "free trial" and the war on stench continues in Wanganui.
Kim Bade was happily spear fishing underwater when he felt "this nip" on hishand and when he looked around there was a 3 metre shark looking straight at him.
A 62-year-old Stratford woman is more than $180 out of pocket after she signed up on Facebook for a free trial of beauty products.
Robert Alexander Gardner moved in with a woman after he finished a 13-month prison stretch and then stole her bankcard and withdrew $2096 of her earthquake payment over one boozy night.
Top trending topics on Twitter in NZ at noon were: #HarmonizersAreEpic, #nzlead, #SkipDeserves300K, New Zealand, Auckland, Japan, Wellington
