1An investigation is underway into how confidential medical notes identifying mental health patients came to found on a street in Invercagill.

2Evidence of top level division of New Zealand Post has emerged in a leaked document.

3In Australia disturbing video footage of protests inside the Kurtin Detention centre have been broadcast on natiowide television.

4Auckland foodbanks are struggling to cope with the numbers of refugees and new immigrants living below the poverty line and needing help.

5Business News.

6In France more than 100, 000 people have again demonstrated against the Presidential election success of far right politician Jean Marie Le Pen.

7News and Sport.

8Over 6,000 past and present BNZ workers could be in for a windfall after the Court of Appeal gave the green light to the $40 million dollar payout of surplus superannuation funds.

9The opposition has put the Government under pressure over its coalition arrangements after the weekend expulsion of Jim Anderton and five other MP's from the Alliance.

10A controversial proposal to dredge and blast parts of the Hauraki Gulf is being gien final aproval by the Minister of Conservation, Sandra Lee.

11There is confusion between a New Zealand childrens charity and a German luxery car maker over a visit by the former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

12Utilities companies and local bodies are meeting in Wellington in an effort to reduce the number of time the countries streets and road are dug up.