The brother and sister of a NZ man missing in London flew to the UK last night vowing to do whatever they could to help search for him.

The army will tomorrow join police in the search for Christchurch woman Emma Campbell, who has been missing since May 1.

Police are confident a man who leapt into the Waikato River in Cambridge after failing to stop his car last night has made it ashore.

An Aussie climber has been trapped on Aoraki/Mt Cook since Thursday with a suspected collapsed lung.

Two crewmen died of suffocation and another was critically hurt in a log ship's hold at Marsden Pt wharf yesterday.