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First Up for Monday 16 May 2022

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 13 May 2022
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 17 May 2022
  • Tree of the Year: get your vote in for fave tree in Aotearoa

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    A cork oak tree on Vanya Maw's farm

    5:53 AM.Every year The Bird of the Year competition splits marriages and puts strains on friendships ... battlelines are drawn between the likes of the people that like Kea .. and those idiots that vote for a… Read more Audio

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  • US: racially motivated white teenager shoots dead 10 people

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    Oxford High students stand holding candles during a vigil after a shooting at Oxford High School at Lake Pointe Community Church in Lake Orion, Michigan.

    5:47 AM.Staying in the US now, where a teenager has been arrested and charged in what authorities are describing as a racially motivated attack which killed 10 people at a supermarket in the city of Buffalo… Read more Audio

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  • Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth

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    Mushroom farm neighbours sick of 'cow poo   putrid' smell

    5:26 AM.Autumn is definitely in the air and to make the most of your vegetable buying you need to take advantage of in season goods which we'll find out about from our Marquis of the Mushroom - it's the… Read more Audio

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  • Pakistan: suicide bombing in Waziristzan

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    Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan (second from right) at a rally in Islamabad in support of his ruling PTI party.

    5:17 AM.To Pakistan we go where RAT tests are about to be used more at the border - up until now they've only been used randomly.. And former Prime Minister Imran Khan is still fighting to be re-elected… Read more Audio

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  • Ukraine:Sweden joins Finland applying for membership of NATO

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    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, centre, US President Joe Biden, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other leaders at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on 24 March, 2022.

    5:06 AM.We begin this morning in Europe where Finland has announced it will join NATO.. which won't please Russia's President Vladimir Putin. With Nathan Rarere from Kyiv in Ukraine is Newshub's Lisette… Read more Audio

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  • Previous Episode: Friday, 13 May 2022
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 17 May 2022
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