First Up for Tuesday 25 August 2020

5:08 AM.Indira spoke with our correspondent Henry Riley in the UK where Boris Johnson seems determined to get children back to school. Audio

5:12 AM.It's all hands on deck at the Auckland City Mission, close to two weeks after it was announced the city would be going back to alert level 3. Demand for food parcels trebelled during the first… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.How does winning an auction for lunch with a public servant sound? No, not Jim from Gliding On - the Cancer Society reckons Dr Ashley Bloomfield is a more appropriate 2020 lunch companion. As Ruby… Read more Audio

5:34 AM.Masks should be compulsory attire for a night out to a restaurant or bar according to a leading public health professor. Otago University's Nick Wilson says the government's policy to make masks… Read more Audio

5:43 AM.A father whose son died during the Christchurch mosque attacks will be one of the last to give his victim impact statement during the sentencing this week. Fourteen year old, Sayyad Milne was shot in… Read more Audio

5:47 AM.While the government has been scrambling since March to get disadvantaged students devices and internet access for online learning during the lockdown, one South Auckland Principal has found a way to… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.Auckland will remain in Level 3 lockdown until midnight Sunday, when the supercity will join the rest of country at Alert Level 2 However, mass gatherings will still be restricted - meaning groups of… Read more Audio