1Health Officials are warning that around 25,000 woman using two brands of an oral contraceptive to see their Doctors after the pills were linked with an increased risk of blood clots.

2A Government comissioned report is warning that dirty emisisions from vechicles are killing an estimated 400 people over thirty per year.

3Large scale drug raids in the upper north island have seen nearly a hundred people arrested and more than one hundred thousand dollars of illegal drugs confescated.

4Business News.

5Strict controls for electricity lines companies are on their way with the commerce comission releasing a discussion paper detailing a preliminary plan for their introduction.

6Industrial action in Australia has forced the cancellation of dozens of flights from New zealand and has left Australian domestic airtravel in chaos.

7News and Sport.

8The Auckland City Council is being accused of hard nose and inhumane treatment of some of its pensioners by some of its own councillors.

9A Indonesian Court has found three East Timorese militiamen not guilty of murdering a New Zealand peacekeeper, Private Leonard Manning, in East Timor two years ago.

10The fate of Telhban and Alquada detainees held in United States Navel base in Cuba should become clearer in the next few days, when the Pentegon will reveal details of the Military tribunal.

11An alarming number of rape and sexual violation complints in Hastings in the last few weeks have almost all involved victims under the age of twenty.

12Scientists have hatched a plan to double the population of one of this countries endangered native birds.

13Rain and gale force winds have lashed Wellington preventing the start of the second New Zealand and England cricket test.