1Federation of Labour (FOL) President Jim Knox has wound up the Labour Party conference with an attack on the Government's economic record.

2The Opposition has called for the Government to take action to bring down interest rates.

3State servants are to receive an 8% pay rise, which will take effect on November 7th. A stop work meeting of several thousand State servants, planned for next week, has now been called off.

4Share prices fell considerably today.

5Negotiations remain deadlocked in the Auckland bus drivers' pay dispute, meaning Aucklanders will still be without bus services tomorrow.

6Around 250,000 beachfront residents have been forced to flee from their Florida homes for a second time in three days, to escape Hurricane Eleanor.

7Prime Minister David Lange has increased pressure on France to hand over the three Secret Service Agents, charged by New Zealand Police with the Rainbow Warrior bombing.

8Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer says he will not be negotiating the Government's anti nuclear policy when he invites the United States to send a warship to New Zealand.

9The National Council of Churches has deplored what it describes as "the intolerant attitudes and extortions" being used by some groups opposing homosexual law reform. The Council has disassociated itself from any actions or attitudes that persecute homosexual people and passed a resolution supporting the decriminalisation of homosexual acts.

10Wellington businessman Frank Renouf married Australian socialite Susan Sangster at his Paraparaumu beach house this evening.