Five Things You Need To Know As You Wake Up: Kulula and British Airways flights suspended

Monday morning, back at it with your fave Breakfast radio trio. 

We have five of the top stories you should know before you get the day started. 

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Russia has targeted Peppa Pig in retaliation for the economic sanctions that have been imposed following the invasion of Ukraine. 

A court has ruled that the cartoon character's trademarks can be used by Russian businesses without punishment - and there are fears that brands belonging to other Western companies could be stolen, too.

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The Springboks and Tatjana Schoenmaker were the big winners at the SA Sports Awards held in Durban on Saturday night, with Siya Kolisi using the platform to highlight gender inequality. 

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Two women from Texas were sentenced after pleading  guilty to buying an 'Obscene amount of cheese'. 

The charges relate to food stamp fraud after using the benefits systems to obtain more than $1.2-million worth of cheese, beans, coffee, and mashed potatoes, which was then sold and transported across the border to Mexico.

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A start-up spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is planning to dig the world’s deepest hole to show the potential of tapping into terawatts of renewable geothermal energy almost anywhere on Earth. 

Quaise Energy wants to drill down to depths of 20km, where the Earth’s crust has a temperature of around 500°C.

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South Africa's civil aviation regulator grounded Comair's planes indefinitely on Sunday, saying the airline had not adequately addressed safety issues, in a move that also affects passengers of low-cost airlines Kulula and British Airways.

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