1Prime Minister David Lange says he is hopeful that South Pacific Forum leaders will adopt the proposal for a South Pacific nuclear free zone tomorrow.

2The Public Service Association's (PSA) annual conference opened in Wellington today with President Colin Hicks claiming that the public service is in crisis.

3Air New Zealand estimates a repair bill of several hundred thousand dollars after two of its aircraft were damaged on the tarmac at Auckland Airport today.

4One of New Zealand's biggest heroin drug raid has turned up 300 grams of heroin and led to the arrest of thirteen people around the country.

5The New Zealand Geographic Board has decided that Mount Egmont will in future be known as Mount Taranaki.

6New Zealand Party leader John Galvin has reacted to an Eyewitness News item last night which he claims suggested the party was racist.

7Today marks the 40th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

8The treason trial of sixteen South African anti-apartheid activists has resumed in the South African Supreme Court.

9The campaign against homosexual law reform is gaining momentum with the arrival today of conservative Christian campaigner Reverend Lou Sheldon from California. Tomorrow he will begin a ten-day tour speaking out against the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. However, supporters of the Bill claim he has been brought to New Zealand to promote bigotry and hostility towards New Zealand gays.

10Today marks the 40th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three New Zealanders recall their visit to Hiroshima shortly after the bomb was dropped and how this experience has altered their lives.