Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz

The news has been breaking all over the place this week. In fact, there's been so much breaking news that you could say it's broken beyond repair.

The two largest pieces of news breaking were that:
1. Rena didn't break (at time of writing).
2. Justin Bieber's voice did.

I know this second piece of news is really beyond the realms of breaking news and teeters on the cusp of earth shattering.

The whole world let out a collective gasp on hearing that Bieber's vocal chords had cracked through the puberty barrier and rasped their way into adulthood.

The news was gleefully announced on television as if it was the most important thing to happen in show business since the invention of popcorn. Everyone seemed excited and will, in years to come, remember exactly where they were and what they were doing the moment they first heard the news breaking that Justin Bieber's voice was breaking.

Later of course, the conspiracy theorists will try to tell us that the voice breaking was faked by NASA. Except for Ken Ring, who will forecast that Bieber's voice will break again – and it might be a good time to leave town just in case. Remember, this is the guy who insisted another big quake was going to hit Christchurch in September. Of course he was very close; a big ship hit Tauranga in October.

Parking puzzle

In other breaking news, astute reader Tim has popped up on the RR radar with a daring suggestion regarding the museum proposal for Tauranga. This issue has been largely forgotten in the public's mind in recent times, due to the large amount of more pressing breaking news happening around us.

Tim says that Cliff Road is a silly place for a museum; there isn't enough parking there now, so what will happen if there's a museum?

Good point Tim, although, Ken Ring is probably forecasting a surprise amount of random parking will occur about the same time.

Failing that, the museum committee working on the proposal may have some ideas and we hope to bring you these answers later in another breaking news column.

Meanwhile, Tim has suggested that the museum be put into the former Foodtown building, up by 13th Ave, which is currently the base for the Rena crisis management team.

Here at RR we think that is an excellent idea to consider and would be pleased to hear readers' reactions.

Repeat performance

In other breaking news, the nation has deftly switched gear from rugby world cup fanaticism to election mode, with some rousing political debate happening.

Although, by the look of the polls, it may be a case of not an election campaign, but a Re-election campaign, since Key and co seem so far ahead, the result is something that even Mr Ring has a 90 per cent chance of guessing right.