1Tricot Report Relations between New Zealand and France are strained to breaking point following the release of the Tricot Report into the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. The report confirms that French spies have been operating in New Zealand, but has found no evidence that the French Secret Service or the French Government were behind the bombing. Interview with Prime Minister David Lange about the report.

2Rotorua Police believe a bomb was responsible for an explosion at a house yesterday which killed one woman and seriously injured another. They are treating the explosion as homicide.

3The Labour Government will make it politically very difficult for future governments to change the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate.

4Wealthy Wellington businessman Frank Renouf is to marry Australian socialite Susan Sangster next week.

5Trevor Tutu, son of famed Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has been detained for allegedly swearing at a police officer during a court case regarding school boycotts.

6Thirteen year old Samantha Smith, the American schoolgirl whose wish for peace led to a Presidential invitation to visit the Soviet Union in 1983, has died in a plane crash.

7A thirteen year old haemophiliac who contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) from a blood transfusion has been barred from school.