NZ@Noon: Medical marvel eyeing Olympics

Jaydene Nepia. Photo / Andrew Warner

Making headlines around the regions today: disgruntled tenants in the North and and an unlikely athlete defies all odds.

A former Rotorua teenager, written off by one doctor before her birth, is lifting above her weight and is now on track for the Olympics.

Several tenants of rented properties in Whangarei face an uphill battle trying to recoup thousands of dollars from a property management company that failed to lodge their bond.

A Wairoa sales person has been fined $500 for selling cigarettes to a 13-year-old girl in a Hawke's Bay District Health Board sting.

Expensive specialist equipment including a dermatoscope used to diagnose skin cancer has been stolen from doctors' bags by burglars who have twice broken into Masterton Medical.

Aussie comedian Heath Franklin - also known as his comic creation "Chopper" - hits town to perform at the Wanganui Opera House on Thursday, November 6, with his Repeat Offender tour.

And finally, Tauranga's One Love Summer Festival line up scheduled for Waitangi Weekend 2015 has been announced and features top Kiwi musicians.