Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

I have a hero of the week this week. In the wash up from the local body elections, and although very excited about the country's newest and youngest Mayor 23-year-old Ben Bell of Gore, which is quite an achievement - my bouquet goes to Rotorua's new Mayor Tania Tapsell.  Absolute go-getter, smart, considered, hardworking and really passionate about her city. She’s the sort of Mayor you feel happy for, irrespective of any political direction, just because they feel like they’ve earned it.  They deserve to be where they are, they’re in it for the right reasons. Not platitudes and empty words, but for the real and right reasons.  She’s gone hard all along on emergency housing and it speaks volumes she got voted in because that’s exactly what the people of Rotorua are focused on right now.  It was a travesty of former Mayor and Labour stalwart Steve Chadwick to allow emergency housing to get so bad in Rotorua. She’s left an absolute headache and a nightmare for Tapsell to try to undo.  But within her first week i