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5:08 AM.To the UK, where the nation is preparing for the funeral of The Duke of Edinburgh. Ellie Jay spoke with our correspondent Alex Cadier in London. Audio

5:50 AM.Nathan Rarere asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Sport and Recreation Grant Robertson if he thinks the inclusion of Pasifika teams in Super Rugby is overdue. Audio

5:44 AM.In a move considered by many to be long overdue, two teams from the Pacific Islands will compete in next year's Super Rugby competition. New Zealand Rugby announced yesterday the inclusion of Moana… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.And as we've done every Thursday for the last little while, we'll hear now from one of the fantastic reporters from the Local Democracy Reporting Programme. This week the LDR crew is in Auckland to do… Read more Audio

5:30 AM.The Indian Premier League cricket has kicked off.. and one of the stars of the commentary team is former Black Cap Simon Doull. Nathan Rarere talked to him just before we went to air, and asked how… Read more Audio

5:22 AM.It is offically less than 100 days until the Tokyo Olympics starts and we are trying to speak with as many Olympic athletes as possible in the lead up. Yesterday Nathan Rarere caught up with Rugby… Read more Audio

5:13 AM.Conservationists are dumbfounded as to why anyone would travel to Muriwai's much-loved gannet colony with an air gun and slaughter eight birds. Police are investigating who is responsible for the… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.First Up this morning we head to Europe, where Denmark has just become the first European country to bin the Oxford Astra Zeneca covid vaccine completely. Our Europe correspondent Catherine Walbridge… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.Carterton residents are being told they must continue to boil their water more than a month after E.coli was found in the water supply. An on-off boil water notice has been in place since March the… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.Each week we like to introduce to you to one of our many new members of parliament. This week it's the turn of ACT's Karen Chhour - one of nine new MPs brought into the house on ACT leader David… Read more Audio

5:31 AM.The criteria for recruiting vaccinators to administer the Covid-19 jab has been expanded to include physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians ... even speech language therapists. The… Read more Audio

5:22 AM.Once a year there's a window of time when Hops across the country is being harvested and brewers can make a 'fresh hop beer'. Hops are notoriously fickle once they've been picked so there's a real… Read more Video, Audio

5:16 AM.What's life like on a cannabis patch? Will eating hemp seeds make you high? To find out, our reporter Tom Kitchin talked to East Coast Cannabis company worker Ben Goodman just out of Ruatoria. Audio

5:11 AM.A new show written during lockdown explores familiar relationships, gender norms and intergenerational conflict. Showing for two weeks at the Basement theatre in Auckland's CBD, First World Problems… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We'll begin in Australia, where it's suspected a second person has had an extreme clotting reaction to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Joining Nathan Rarere from her nest high above Brisbane is our… Read more Audio

5:51 AM.In the past 48 hours we've learned two MIQ workers who have contracted Covid-19 have not yet been vaccinated. National's Deputy leader Shane Reti told Nathan Rarere that's not good enough. Audio

5:41 AM.From midnight Sunday, New Zealanders will be able to go on an overseas holiday for the first time since our borders were closed a year ago. Nathan Rarere spoke with Air New Zealand boss Greg Foran… Read more Audio

5:32 AM.We head to Samoa now where the two main political parties remain neck-and-neck after the weekend's election. Provisional results over the weekend had the the incumbent Human Rights Protection Party… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.This morning on TradeMe, listings include Joe Moody's 100th Crusaders game jersey and for musician who has everything, a coffin shaped guitar. But first, TradeMe's Ruby Topzand tells producer Jeremy… Read more Audio

5:18 AM.New Zealand's top athletes sought psychological support in record numbers last year. One year on, a leading psychologist says athletes and coaches are suffering sleepless nights, trouble making… Read more Audio

5:13 AM.In our New Zealand made segment this week, what kind of coffin do you want when you die? Ross Hall makes personalised caskets for everyone's different interests. He spoke to our reporter Ella Stewart… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We begin in the United Kingdom, where we are joined by our correspondent Henry Riley. Audio

5:51 AM.Last week we heard from a woman battling cancer who had to pay 64-thousand dollars to get the treatment she needs, with around half of that cost going to adminstering the medication because our DHBs… Read more Audio

5:42 AM.New Zealanders stuck in India are feeling abandoned by the Government after all flights were suspended from midnight last night. First Up has been contacted by numerous people desperate to come home… Read more Audio