1The man who kidnapped 8 month baby Kahu Durie originally planned to kidnap her mother Donna Hall.

2Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Committee is calling on the Auditor General to invesigate New Zealand Post overseas subsidery Transcend.

3Business News.

4The Governor of the reserve Bank has resigned after 14 years of being charge of the countries purse strings and will be seeking nomination as a National list candidate.

5News and Sport

6Significant change to industrial law are back on the politcal agenda. National has released its policy and is pledging substantial changes to the industrial relations act.

7A criminally insane fugitive from Australia will appear in court in the next few days over a crucial decision over whether he is dangerous to be held under a compulsory treatment order

8In the middle east more talks to resolve a three week stand-off Palestinian militants holed up in the Bethleham Church of the Nativity and beseiging Israeli troups have broken off without agreement.

9A residential programme and day reporting centres are measure to tackle serious youth offending.

10The Directors of the Maori Television service say they are satified that the process that they went through to recruit the Canadian Businessman John Davey as the Chief Executive was both robust and correct.

11In a test case in the High Court in Wellington a woman is alledging the state is responsible for the sex abuse and cultural deprevation she suffered as a state ward more than 30 years ago.