First Up for Wednesday 22 May 2019

5:54 AM.A cheese-making family from Hamilton have walked away with two of the top prizes at the NZ Champion of Cheese Awards. Meyer Gouda Cheese won the Countdown Champion of Champions award for best… Read more Audio

5:50 AM.Media were welcomed into Christchurch Hospital's new Acute Services Building yesterday, for a first glimpse inside the country's largest and most expensive hospital project to date. Construction has… Read more Audio

5:40 AM.Alan Halse, director of CultureSafeNZ, which supports people experiencing workplace bullying, says in years of lobbying the Government, the organisation has been 'absolutely ignored." Read more Audio

5:35 AM.A listener has noticed that a lot of companies which own buildings sell them to specialist investment companies and then lease them back...wouldn't it be cheaper to hold on to them rather than pay… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.There were cheers - and some tears - as the Pike River mine was re-entered yesterday, nearly nine years after disaster struck. 29 men headed out to work on the 19th of November 2010, and didn't return… Read more Audio