1Labour Party leader David Lange is angry tat Post Offices have not remained open over the weekend to allow late electoral roll enrollments.

2Election campaigning began in earnest today with candidates and their supporters hitting the streets. However one Labour candidate's campaigning caused some inconvenience to his own party leader David Lange.

3Five New Zealanders have been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

4A police officer and a Republican guerrilla have been shot dead in a confrontation in Northern Ireland, however there is some doubt about exactly how the Republican fighter died.

5British Police say a striking miner has been killed on picket duty outside a power station in Yorkshire. He was struck by a truck while trying to prevent coal being delivered to the station.

6Controversial Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has been sentimentally farewelled at his Liberal Party's convention in Ottawa ahead of his retirement from politics.

7Snow has hit large areas of South Africa and there is concern that damage to crops could lead to food shortages in some of its neighbouring countries.

8Three people have been killed and seventeen injured in explosions on an oil tanker at Milford Haven in Wales.

9Dunedin's National Poisons Centre has experienced a marked drop in the number of inquiries about solvent abuse including glue sniffing. However there has been a big rise in other poisons, especially medicines left lying around the home.