NZ@Noon: Grenades lobbed into home

Members of the armed offenders' squad head towards a Whangarei house. Photo/Michael Cunningham.

Stories making headlines around the region include a bullied Tauranga doctor gets paid, local dairies in Hawke's Bay going to extreme lengths to sell highs and grenades being thrown into a Whangarei home.

An elderly Whangarei resident hunkered down in her lounge chair, locking the windows and doors, as police armed with guns and grenades surrounded a neighbouring house.

An elderly Masterton couple warn other pensioners about an insulation rip-off.

Raymond and Rosalind New looking at the CSC endorsed Gold Card that enabled them to have their home insulated for free.

A Tauranga doctor, who claimed he was bullied, gets compensation.

Suburban Hawke's Bay dairy owners are going to extreme lengths to illegally sell psychoactive substances.

In Wanganui a man who was overpaid on his unemployment benefit did not tell social workers he had a job because he was 'barely earning enough to survive'.

A visit by a celebrity chef to Rotorua and has helped raise $30,000 for the hospice.

New Zealand celebrity chef Jo Seagar (right) during a fund raising night for the Rotorua Hospice. Photo/Supplied