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While most of the country has been experiencing tempestuous weather, the climate in capital city has been calm According to MetService, the month of June was Wellington's calmest in eleven years.

The Snowdon Mountain Railway has been taking visitors up Yr Wyddfa for nearly 130 years. It had been closed since the end of 2019, but is now taking passengers up Wales' highest mountain again.

A growing number of people are discovering that they are autistic in adulthood, leaving some wondering what life would have been like if they'd been diagnosied earlier. A new study has investigated whether getting a diagnosis at a younger age is linked to a better quality of life as an adult.

Cold south-westerly winds sweeping north out of the Southern Ocean has brought heavy snow to areas of the lower South Island Bruce Eade runs a 550 head dairy farm near Tapanui in Eastern Southland, and he says it's the biggest snowfall he's seen in 10 years.

It's been 50 years since Prime Minister Norman Kirk sent the HMNZS Otago and it's 242 crew off on a mission to protest nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll, in French Polynesia. This Friday will be a ceremony to officially recognise the men's sacrifices, many of whom have been left with serious health issues due to radiation exposure.

Sports commentator Bryan Waddle joins us again for a wrap of the latest sport news from the weekend and looking ahead over the next week or so.

Russia's government is moving to demonstrate it still has control over the country, following a brief mutiny by one of the country's most powerful military groups. Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin flew to Belarus in exile on Tuesday (June 27), after his fighters protested of the Russian Military's handling of the Ukraine conflict. Ukraine hopes the chaos caused by the mutiny attempt will undermine Russian defences, as it presses a counteroffensive to recapture occupied territory. Dr Jack Watling is the senior research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the world's oldest and the UK's leading defence and security thinktank. Originally from New Zealand, he has spent periods of time since this war began on the ground with the armed forces in Ukraine, and has won international media awards for his analysis.

Muso Finn Johansson steps out of his makeshift recording studio to bring us his favourite tracks of the week. Tonight, he joins us from Ireland.

Cricketers, on the verge of scoring a century, are often described as being in the 'nervous nineties' - a new study uses data to sort fact from fiction.

Dan Slevin joins the show with his weekend viewing recommendations.