1Seven people were killed today when a light aircraft crashed onto farmland at Koromiko.

2Police investigating the ammunition find on the French ship Ile de Lumiere have today arrested a 29-year old French crewman.

3A dramatic and tense battle for line honours is underway in the second leg of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. NZI Enterprise and Atlantic Privateer are neck and neck as the yachts approach Auckland.

4United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev have both pledged themselves to peace in television addresses made to the people of each other's nations.

5Nurses at most of New Zealand's psychiatric hospitals are either on strike or are preparing to take strike action over a breakdown in their pay talks.

6Searchers are continuing to search dense bush near Owaka in Southland for two young girls, missing since yesterday evening.

7Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi today warned the United States and Israel that aggression against this country could spark off a war that might engulf the entire world. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has accused Libya of being "a state which deals in crime".

8Spain and portugal have officially joined the European Economic Community (EEC). However, there is concern that their entry to the EEC could place further strain on its farm support system, which already produces huge quantities of surplus foodstuffs.