1The newly appointed Chief Executive of the Maori Television Service has been sacked. Controversy had surrounded the appointment of Canadian, John Davey with questions raised over his qualifications.

2Mediation talks over the secondary teachers pay dispute have ended with no resolution in sight.

3A Treaty of Waitangi policy announced by the National Party today has drawn immediate criticism from the government and scepticism from some Maori quarters.

4Business News.

5The newly appointed Chief Executive of the Maori Television Service has been sacked. Controversy had surrounded the appointment of Canadian, John Davey with questions raised over his qualifications.

6A survey of public servants calls into question the "gliding on" image of work shy bureaucrats.

7News and Sport.

8The hearing regarding a case of a Australian mentally unwell fugative has been ajourned in the family court in Auckland.

9In the Middle East dozens of Israeli tanks have swept into the divided West Bank city of Hebron opening fire with heavey machine guns, killig two people and injuring several others.

10A woman who is sueing the Government for over two million dollars over the abuse she received as a foster child in the 1970s has told the High Court in Wellington that being taken from her parents was the worst exeprience of her life.

11Plans to give more recognition to one of New Zealands most reknown artists have sparked vehment criticism from a Dunedin art dealer saying Francis Hodgekins deserves more.