If you ask most teenagers what they're doing for the summer holidays, it's likely the answer is going to the beach or hitting the mall. But for 75 young musicians, they're hard at work practising in a week-long programme run by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. The goal? To perform in a concert at the Auckland Town Hall tomorrow.

A road safety charity says more than 20,000 people are ignoring calls to get their warrants of fitness rechecked, despite being warned of faulty checks. The Transport Agency suspended more than a dozen inspectors or garages late last year for issuing dodgy certifications. Since then just 4,070 have been reinspected with only 40% passing on their first go.

The Honorary Consul General for Ireland is calling on New Zealand media organisations to apologise for assuming a family of unruly tourists are all Irish. Five members of the group, whose nationalities have not been verified, have been served with deportation notices after causing trouble around the north of the country in the last few weeks.

And in news just to hand - Theresa May survives to fight another day - the British prime minister has stared down a no-confidence vote in her government in Parliament. British MPs have just voted in the past 10 minutes. Natalie Powell, our UK correspondent has the results.

A widowed teacher with an autistic son is among those pleading for an answer on whether her parents will be allowed to join them under a shelved immigration programme. Zoe Jiang, of Wellington, says she does not want to be forced onto benefits to look after her six-year-old boy Zac, while her parents are locked out of helping her. Our immigration reporter, Gill Bonnett, has the story.

RNZ Summer Report presenters Chris Bramwell and Craig McCulloch sample a different beer every day with Steph Coutts from Craft Beer College in Wellington. Today's tipple: Cucumber Hippy Berliner, by 8 Wired Brewing.

The group of hapu pushing forward with the stalled Ngapuhi treaty mandate has formed a new working group - as calls for the mandate to be pulled altogether continue.

A visit by Australia's prime minister to Vanuatu and Fiji this week is the first by an Australian prime minister in decades. The trip follows the Australian government's Pacific "Step Up" announced just over a year ago and observers say it's an effort to show Australia is taking the Pacific seriously. Mr Morrison is scheduled to arrive in the Vanuatu capital Port Vila today - in what's also being seen as a push to stem China's growing influence in the region. RNZ Pacific's Sally Round filed this report.

Work on one of the most critical parts of the Pike River Mine recovery operation is due to start today, with an entry possible next month. The Pike River Recovery Agency is expected to start purging the mine tunnel of explosive methane and filling it with nitrogen - essential to preventing an explosion.

About three-thousand junior doctors will continue striking today in what they say is a bid to protect safer working hours in public hospitals. Those taking industrial action are part of the Resident Doctors' Association, which represents resident medical officers throughout New Zealand. But - it's not the only union that junior doctors can join. The Specialty Trainees of New Zealand was set up as an alternative to the Resident Doctors' Association in 2017.