1Two independent reports have revealed serious concerns about delays in implementing the recommendations from the Gisborne cervical cancer enquiry.
2The Ministry of Health is very worried over waiting times in Christchurch for Heart surgery.Norman Thompson
3The preliminary hearing into the shooting of Steven Wallis has heard claims that Constable Keith Abbot was at a police function where alcohol was served only hours before Mr Wallis was shot dead.
4Business News
5The Australian Government is becoming embroiled in a row over claims made during last years election campaign that asylum seekers threw their childrn overboard off Christmas Island
6Australian Refugee controvery
7Wellington Police say that they now believe that a woman who went missing from her home shortly after Christmas has been killed and her body disposed of.
8The attempt to salvage the log carrier the Jodie F Millenium off Gisborne suffered a blow today after one of the cables connecting it to a tug snapped.
9The US secretary of State Colin Powell says that the Palistanian Leader Yasser Arafat has accepted responsibility for the shipment of arms intercepted by Israel last month.
10Most of the sixth day of a double murder trail taking place in the High Court in Palmeston North is being taken up with evidence of the financial and insurance affairs of the Lundy family.
11As widely expected the former broadcaster Ian Fraser has been appointed Chief Executive of TVNZ.
12The Christian Heritage party has appointed the head of the Womans Refuge Merepeka Rokawa Tait as its Deputy Leader.