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5:05 AM.Anita Purcell spoke to Ellie Jay about the latest in Europe. A citizen in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of spying, a prominent journalist has been shot in the Netherlands, President Putin has… Read more Audio

5:53 AM.Celia Hay, the Director of the New Zealand School of Food and Wine, speaks to Nathan Rarere about the understaffed hospitality industry and how most hospitality students have already been snapped up.

5:47 AM.Restaurants across New Zealand have been forced to close their doors as Covid-19 border restrictions cause understaffing in the hospitality industry. The industry is calling for urgent visa… Read more Audio

5:37 AM.Striving for success is a goal for many .. but what about the goal of being The Greatest Of Them All? Well, earlier this year a young British man decided to give M&M stacking a go and walked away a… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.Some of the country's restaurant owners are urging the government to let more hospitality workers into the country First Up has spoken to operators who have shut shop due to the lack of staff, and… Read more Audio

5:15 AM.A new study has found that older New Zealanders are starting to care more intensely about climate change and are increasingly accepting that humans are behind the crisis. Over 56-thousand Kiwis… Read more Audio

5:09 AM.We cross the ditch to Brisbane correspondent Pam Corkery, to get the latest on the Australian news. Audio

5:48 AM.Quarantine-free travel will resume with Western Australia and Northern Territory from midnight Friday, and New Zealanders from New South Wales and Queensland will be able to fly home despite those… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.The morgue in Fiji's capital city Suva is reported to be filled to capacity, and the funeral service which runs it says they're bracing for more Covid-19 deaths.

The country reported 352 new positive… Read more Audio

5:32 AM.While the world's sporting heads will be turned toward Tokyo in two and a half weeks, some of the country's future Olympians continue to ply their trade around the world. One such athlete is… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.This week on TradeMe's cool auctions - the opportunity for lunch and a tour of parliament with ACT leader David Seymour . But first, TradeMe's Millie Silvester tells producer Jeremy Parkinson about an… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.From eating a rock, to a sock.. to chowing down on a pack of sewing pins... and a puffer fish. Southern Cross has released a list of its most unusual pet insurance claims of 2020. The insurer paid out… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.In the UK, Boris Johnson has announced the government will lift most of the remaining Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th, that's despite a backlash from the government's own scientific advisers who… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.The pause on trans-Tasman travel has been lifted for four Australian states overnight despite parts of the country still grappling with worrying Covid-19 outbreaks. Yes Australians from South… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.How effective is sunscreen? With 500 New Zealanders dying from melanoma every year.. it's something Consumer NZ wants to find out. But each SPF test costs $5000 and they have to be conducted in labs… Read more Audio

5:33 AM.It's just 18 days until the Tokyo Olympics begin and one of the youngest athletes on the New Zealand team is 20-year-old Kanah Andrews-Nahu It will be the first Olympic Games for the weightlifter who… Read more Audio

5:26 AM.A look at the fruit and vege market, our minister of fruit and veggies, Glenn Forsyth spoke to Nathan Rarere. Audio

5:15 AM.An Australian virologist warns New Zealanders not to be so complacant as the Delta variant of Covid-19 sparks widespread outbreaks across the ditch and around the world. The highly transmissable… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.To Samoa now where the country is waiting to see whether outgoing Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi and key members of his government will be arrested for contempt of court after allegedly… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.Put June 24 in your diary for next year.. it will mark the first Matariki public holiday. The arrival of the star cluster also known as Pleides or Subaru marks the start of the Maori New Year The… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.Guy Heveldt speaks to Nathan Rarere for the last time before he goes to Japan for the olympic coverage. Wimbledon tennis court so slippery that multiple players are falling Serena Williams injures… Read more Audio

5:32 AM.Ski fields are starting to open around New Zealand and in the middle of Te ika a Maui, the ski fields of Whakapapa and Turoa are ready for business, Travis Donoghue, Chief Operating Officer of Ruapehu… Read more Audio