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First Up for Monday 25 March 2024

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 22 March 2024
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 26 March 2024
  • Gisborne mayor on 2 deaths at huge brawl at 21st party

    crime
    Raewyn Hurinui lives on Gisborne's Lytton Street, and said the deaths came as a shock.

    5:53 AM.Two men are dead and three are critically injured after a huge brawl in Gisborne on Saturday night About 100 people were involved in a massive fight on Lytton Road in Elgin. Police have launched a… Read more Audio

  • Left over school lunches to help feed community prevents crime

    food education
    Owen Cooper says the foodbank supplies food to as many people as possible, but sometimes there just isn't enough to go around - that's where the school lunches come in handy. He says he gives them 'a school lunch or two' instead of turning people away empty handed.

    5:47 AM.A woman living in a West Auckland caravan park says having access to leftover school lunches is helping to curb crime. Residents of the park say access to the the food means they don't need to steal… Read more Audio

  • Gloriavale members stuck in timewarp of 50 years ago

    life and society arts
    screen shot from Escaping Utopia documentary

    5:38 AM.The director of a three-part Gloriavale documentary says members of the isolated West Coast community "live like life is frozen in an oppressive communist regime in the 1970s". Justin Pemberton's… Read more Audio

  • Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth

    food
    Cromwell has a well-earned reputation as the fruit bowl of New Zealand.

    5:23 AM.It's the last time we'll be speaking with the Minister of Fruit and Veggies for a few weeks with Easter.. Glenn Forsyth is with us now. Audio

  • Russia responds after 137 people killed by ISIS at concert hall

    world
    People mourn at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall, a day after a gun attack in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on March 23, 2024. Camouflaged assailants opened fire at the packed Crocus City Hall in Moscow's northern suburb of Krasnogorsk on March 22, 2024, evening ahead of a concert by Soviet-era rock band Piknik in the deadliest attack in Russia for at least a decade. Russia on March 23, 2024, said it had arrested 11 people - including four gunmen - over the attack on a Moscow concert hall claimed by Islamic State, as the death toll rose to over 100 people. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)

    5:16 AM.Mondays mean Europe correspondent Dr Anita Purcell-Sjölund joins the programme from Sweden Audio

  • US: can't pay his fines, Trump to sell social media company

    world
    Trump Tower, home to the Trump Organisation, stands along Fifth Avenue on June 30, 2021 in New York City.

    5:10 AM.Newshub's North America correspondent is Mitch McCann and he's on the job from New York City. Audio

  • UK: Catherine, Princess of Wales drops bombshell news of cancer

    world

    5:05 AM.We begin this Easter week in the UK - joining us with the latest on the cancer diagnosis of the Princess of Wales, it's our correspondent Ellie Jay. Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 22 March 2024
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 26 March 2024
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