First Up for Thursday 21 April 2022

5:48 AM.We'll get a good idea of how much the cost of living has actually gone up by later today when the much-anticipated consumer price index for the March quarter is released. It will come as no surprise… Read more Audio

5:38 AM.After reading about an elderly man who was skipping lunch because he couldn't afford it, North Canterbury woman Julie Lamplugh felt she just had to do something. She came up with a simple idea but one… Read more Audio

5:27 AM.It's Thursday so we're going to be looking around the Motu and chatting with our Local democracy reporters, and this morning we're talking to Brendon McMahon from the Greymouth Star. Audio

5:16 AM.Forty years ago this month, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. The South Atlantic archipelago has been British territory since 1833 but Argentina has never stopped staking their claim to the… Read more Audio

5:12 AM.To Europe now, where the Russian deadline for people to leave the beseiged city of Mariupol has passed. For more on this and other stories out of Europe, Nathan Rarere was joined from Sweden by our… Read more Audio