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First Up for Thursday 22 May 2025

  • Previous Episode: Wednesday, 21 May 2025
  • Next Episode: Friday, 23 May 2025
  • RNZ money correspondent on Budget 2025 expectations

    money

    5:52 AM.RNZ's Money correspondent Susan Edmunds guides us through budget day Audio

  • UK PM does winter payment reversal after controversial cuts

    world

    5:46 AM.The British government has backtracked on its winter fuel payment policy, Ellie Jay joins us from London Audio

  • Taranaki boasts giant 30 year-old fungus near Eltham

    animals local council

    5:24 AM.Taranaki reporter Robin Martin goes mushroom hunting and tells us about a YUGE schnapper. Audio

  • Ceasefire between Pakistan and India still holding

    world

    5:14 AM.A bus attack in Balochistan has killed a number of children, Anas Mallick reports from Pakistan Audio

  • Previous Episode: Wednesday, 21 May 2025
  • Next Episode: Friday, 23 May 2025
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