<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>1:06 radio new zealand news read by neil billington the wanganui boyfriend of a nineteen year old oxford university student has been charged with her murder <,> john tanner a twenty two year old classics student was charged in the oxford magistrate's court with strangling rachael maclean <,> before his arrest tanner told the police he last saw rachael when she saw him off on a train to nottingham on april the fifteenth he was arrested in nottingham after more than twenty four hours of police questioning he's now being remanded in custody until may the ninth but does not have to appear in court again personally until may the thirtieth there was no application for bail the police have described the case as most unusual and say the exceptional circumstances will be apparent when all of the facts become known <,> rachael's body was found on thursday evening at her <&>2:00 lodgings in argyle street cowley oxford <,> thames valley police were criticised for taking so long to look under the floorboards in rachael maclean's lodgings which she shared with three other women students <,> the police say they did not say <.>they DID say they did not have sniffer dogs because of economy cuts and couldn't rip up people's houses every time someone was reported missing <,> rachael maclean's mother joan says tanner had asked her daughter <&>pronounced as daughtee to marry him but she told him she was not yet ready to settle down <,,> a ground and air search has resumed for a tramper missing for a week in the midcanterbury bush there's growing concern for the safety of the twenty one year old wellington man colin james bolitho was last seen at the watch dog hut on the clyde river last sunday it's thought he'd had little food and inadequate clothing for the conditions the police have sent out an urgent appeal for any trampers and shooters who've been in the upper rangitata area to contact them if they have seen the missing man <&>3:00 <,,> police are again patrolling duck shooting ponds in canterbury in a bid to head off potential trouble between shooters and animal rights supporters <,> the save animals from exploitation group has served notice it intends taking its protest against this sport to the mai mais this season <,> the police are concerned someone may get hurt if a confrontation erupts where firearms are legally in use <,> kay fellows representing the protest group says they're also scared at the prospect of personal injury but are prepared to risk it to make the point <,,> rebel national m p gilbert miles has told the government it has to start listening to the people he says the country is in dire straits and people want some answers mister miles says the way the national party is going it's possible a third party like the democrats will win a couple of seats eighteen months from now we've got to start thinking about how we're going to win the next election and we have to answer to our constituents why we did certain things we've <&>4:00 heard over ONE million people in this country that have taken some form of cut are they going to vote at all gilbert miles says because the national party has such a large number of m ps it runs the risk of not listening to the people who put them there and they have a right to be heard <,> hundreds of thousands of people who survived bangladesh's worst cyclone now face the twin menace of hunger and disease as relief supplies trickle into devastated areas <,> the official death toll stands at one hundred and twenty five thousand <,> up to ten million people almost a tenth of bangladesh's one hundred and fifteen million population were left homeless when the killer cyclone packing winds of two hundred and thirty five kilometres an hour hit the densely populated coast for nine hours on monday relief officials say communications with the disaster areas have been cut off preventing an accurate damage assessment <,> the death toll is likely to rise as rescue <&>5:00 teams reach offshore islands still partly submerged in the bay of bengal which officials say is one of the worst hit areas <,> rain and high winds generated by squalls in the aftermath of the cyclone have hampered relief efforts <,> helicopters unable to land are dropping relief supplies to the islands and rough seas are preventing boats from ferrying supplies <,,> iraqi troops have now abandoned military positions most of the way to the kurdish town of dahuk about forty kilometres south of the first safe haven set up by allied forces for kurdish refugees <,> the evacuation clears the way for allied troops to extend southwards from their forward position which in the past week has already advanced ten kilometres the allies have told the iraqis to withdraw from within a thirty kilometre radius of zacho thousands of soldiers from nine western nations have already secured the town of zacho and a strip of territory along the border as far as the town of amadia they plan to bring tens of thousands of the <&>6:00 kurdish refugees there from squalid camps in the mountains of the iraqi turkish border <&>6:04