1Federation of Labour (FOL) President Jim Knox has launched a strong attack on the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS Alliance) at the Pacific Trade Union Forum in Fiji tonight.

2Finance Minister Roger Douglas has released previously confidential Government reports relating to July's devaluation, which show that former Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon ignored two years worth of Treasury and Reserve Bank reports advising him to devalue the dollar.

3Prime Minister David Lange has concluded his visit to Britain with a call to businessmen in the United Kingdom to invest in New Zealand's future.

4Smash and grab raiders have stolen $2.5 million worth of gems from a London jewelers today,

5Three Soviet cosmonauts are due to return to earth sometime in the next few hours, after a record 238 days in space.

6The Government has amended the rent-freeze regulations to close loopholes that have allowed some landlords to increase their returns.

7Groups monitoring the ale of alcohol are angry that supermarket chain Woolworths is selling imported low-alcohol beer. The Temperance Alliance and the Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council believe it will encourage young people to drink, and fear this is the beginning of a campaign to have alcohol available for sale in supermarkets.

8Six people were hospitalised after a fire broke out in waste magnesium at an Auckland factory today.

9Farmers in Otago and Southland say they have lost 110,000 spring lambs in the cold snap which has ravaged the area over the past few days. Heavy snow blanketed the central North Island overnight, blocking the Desert Road and stranding a number of vehicles.

10According to former New Zealand Attorney General Peter Wilkinson, Zimbabwe could become a major political and economic force in Africa. He believes outsiders should not be especially concerned about developments in Zimbabwe, and while Prime Minister Robert Mugabe is walking a knife-edge towards a one-party Marxist-Leninist State, he has brought stability to Zimbabwe.

11Waitutu Forest covers some 45,000 hectares of south eastern Fiordland and is part of the Fiordland National Park. However. conservationists and prospective developers are at war over the future of the forests, with the Maori landowners wanting to mill the timber, and environmentalists equally determined to preserve the unique block of virgin forest.