Karl Pearce speaks last year at the opening on an art exhibition that included a work featuring his son, Braden. Photo: RNZ / Jimmy Ellingham
RNZ reporter Jimmy Ellingham joins Kathryn to talk about concerns over a delay to the opening of Palmerston North's Hospital mental health ward. The father of a 19-year-old patient who died in a suspected suicide at Palmerston North Hospital's mental health ward is worried that a replacement facility will not open for more than two years. Karl Pearce's son Braden died on 30 October, 2021. Residents in Fielding are taking to installing their own flood barriers amid concerns of a repeat of devastating flash floods a year ago. And Palmerston North's library has been taking books to immobile readers for 50 years.
