1Work and Income may have to review 15,000 cases of beneficiaries which were forced to repay welfare benefits after the Government aduit report revealed that it may have wrongly forced them to pay back the money.

2The two teenage girls who may hold the key to the death of a Waitara man have been found in Palmeston North and are now helping the police with their inquiries.

3The Ministry of Fisheries say an undercover investigation of the illegal poaching of rock lobster and paua has showen that Asian crime gangs are involved in illegally exporting the shellfish.

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5The Rugby Union says that it is making considerable progress towards eliminating sponsership clashes at stadiums as it pulls out all the stops to restore New Zealand as a rugby cup sub-host.

6Four young grave robbers have been jailed by the Wellington District Court.

7Motorists, homeowner and golfers are clashing on Auckland's North Shore as urban sprawl pushes house and highways nearer to fairways.

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9The United Nations's Secretary General Kofi Anan has appealed to the Israelis and Palestinians to stop fighting and resume peace negotiations.

10In the next three years there will an extra four hundred million dollars will spent on primary health care in a move the Government says will give at least 300,000 people on lower incomes cheaper health care.

11Fiji's Foreign Minister is urging New zealand businesses to invest in his country as he says it has suffered in the wake of the May 2000 Coup.

12The Government can now push through its ban on transfering animal cells or tissue to humans, after the Green Party have had their fears alleyed and they will now support the legislation.

13An American woman has been found guilt of trying her five children in a bath despite her lawyers argument that she was insane at the time.