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First Up for Monday 13 July 2020

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 10 July 2020
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  • Fieldays goes digital for the first time in its history

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    5:50 AM.From Mystery Creek to the global stage. Covid-19 stopped Fieldays from physically taking place last month - so event organisers decided to make history by taking the Southern Hemisphere's largest… Read more Audio

  • Rotorua Stockcar club under pressure to drop Confederate flag as club symbol

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    Rotorua Stockcar club advertisement (2018)

    5:43 AM.Pressure is growing on the Rotorua Stockcar Club to drop the Confederate Flag as one of its symbol. An on-line petition against the club using the flag now has more than 1000 signatures. Wellington… Read more Audio

  • Hawke's Bay farmers show council valuable crop lands

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    5:37 AM.A small group of Hawke's Bay farmers are putting pressure on the local councils to ensure urban development doesn't destroy valuable crop lands. Richard Gaddum, who has a cattle farm in Havelock… Read more Audio

  • Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth

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    5:23 AM.Our Minister of Fruit and Veges, Glenn Forsyth updates us on the good buys on the produce markets. Audio

  • Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and family have Covid-19

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    FILE PHOTO: File picture of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan waving to fans in Mumbai, India, December 13, 2018. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

    5:07 AM.In India the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 is growing on average by 25,000 a day. India last week passed Russia to now sit third on the list of countries behind only the US and Brazil. But… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 10 July 2020
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 14 July 2020
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