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5:20 AM.Celery juice is the latest health trend taking over social media - users are claiming its benefits include healing eczema, psoriasis, acne and more. Is it a miracle drink or is it hype? And have you… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 AM.Twelve years ago UK businessman Des Brennan bought a small potted ivy cutting into his office to brighten up the work space. It's since taken on a life of it's own - trailing up the walls and along… Read more Audio

5:55 AM.First Up's gig guide for the weekend with Holly Osmond from Roots Bar in Takaka. Audio

5:54 AM.A farmer impacted by Mycoplasma Bovis is calling on other farmers to reach out for help, even if they are afraid. It comes as two senior rural support workers, hired to help farmers cope with losing… Read more Audio

5:53 AM.One of the regular features of First Up will be hearing from people who are up and about like us in the early hours of the morning. Earlier in the week our producer Ellie Jay visited Auckland zoo… Read more Video, Audio

5:45 AM.The longest running theatre performance on the West End was based on a real life crime which took place in Britain at the end of the 1940s. But unless you've been to London, most of us will never get… Read more Video, Audio

5:35 AM.First Up answers your questions about business. What is the TWI - the trade weighted index? Business reporter, Nona Pelletier with the answer. Audio

5:27 AM.Glenn Forsyth with a report from the fruit and vege markets - today it's Avocados.. Audio

5:09 AM.Australians head to the polls in just over a week, our producer Lydia Batham spoke with Australian political journalist Patrick Lion about the campaigning so far. Audio

5:56 AM.A mother who lost two sons in a police pursuit earlier this year, has lodged a complaint with the Health and Disability Commissioner saying the Christchurch DHB failed her family. Juanita Hickey's… Read more Video, Audio

5:55 AM.Should pensioner housing tenants be allowed to keep pet birds? For residents at a pensioner housing block in Whanganui it's all a bit up in the air. Residents knew they weren't allowed to keep cats or… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.The Royal newborn has a name Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor Prince Harry and Meghan fronted cameras at Windsor this morning and gave the world its first glimpse of their new baby. Indira talks… Read more Audio

5:40 AM.If you love bacon with your breakfast we've got some not so good news unfortunately. Our breakfast bacon's likely to get more expensive - as the pork industry in China battles African Swine Fever. To… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.First Up answers one of your questions about business. Today - Why has Trade Me left the share market? Read more Video, Audio

5:27 AM.Economist Miles Workman talks about the Reserve Bank cutting the Official Cash Rate yesterday. Audio

5:10 AM.Long-serving National MP Nick Smith was named in Parliament yesterday - one of the most severe punishments a Speaker can hand out. Dr Smith has been suspended for one day, which means he's barred from… Read more Audio

5:50 AM.In the Te Rapa district of Hamilton - Fonterra tanker drivers know that every evening their biggest fan will be waiting for them on a dairy farm on Reid Road. Fonterra's milk tankers are Andrew… Read more Video, Audio

5:45 AM.Even though we are just about to finish up for the day it's still dark outside and there's lots to see in the night sky, Dr Ian Griffin, director of the Otago Museum talks about what you can see. Audio

5:37 AM.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed a baby boy yesterday at 5:26 in the morning London time. The couple have marked themselves out by having quite a different relationship with their subjects… Read more Audio

5:26 AM.An addiction specialist has told First Up the government should look to increase the purchase age of alcohol to the one proposed for cannabis. Yesterday the government released draft legislation that… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.It's long been thought social media has a negative effect on teenagers happiness - but a large new study from the UK has found that's not the case. Scientists from Oxford University examined data on… Read more Audio

5:55 AM.Hundreds are expected to march in Wellington this morning calling on the government to fund more lung cancer medications. Lung cancer is New Zealand's biggest killer - more people die from lung cancer… Read more Audio

5:40 AM.Hundreds are expected to march in Wellington this morning calling on the government to fund more lung cancer medications. Lung cancer is New Zealand's biggest killer - more people die from lung cancer… Read more Video, Audio