1Post Office The announcement earlier this year that the Government was to increase postal charges and the fees for telephone services caused consternation among the public, given the Post Office's enormous profit last year. Now plans are afoot to streamline the Post Office, and that almost certainly means dividing it into three separate businesses - postal, telecommunications and banking divisions, run autonomously. Is this a prelude to selling them off to private enterprise? Discussion and viewer talkback with Postmaster General Jonathan Hunt.

2The latest Government stock tender results shows interest rates have fallen slightly, in line with market predictions.

3The bodies of three kidnapped Britons have been found on a mountain highway near Beirut. They were allegedly shot dead in retaliation for United States airstrikes on Tripoli and Benghazi earlier this week.

4A bomb was discovered at London's Heathrow Airport just before it could be taken aboard a Boeing El Al 747. A woman has been arrested, but the real culprit appears to be her Arab boyfriend, who had placed explosives in his pregnant girlfriend's hand luggage without her knowledge.

5Former colleagues of an English police officer have paid tribute to her. Yvonne Fletcher was killed two years ago by a shot fired from the Libyan People's Bureau while on duty at an anti-Gaddafi demonstration outside.

6United States President Ronald Reagan has repeated his hope that New Zealand will soon return to "its traditional role as a responsible ANZUS partner".

7A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

8Post Office The announcement earlier this year that the Government was to increase postal charges and the fees for telephone services caused consternation among the public, given the Post Office's enormous profit last year. Now plans are afoot to streamline the Post Office, and that almost certainly means dividing it into three separate businesses - postal, telecommunications and banking divisions, run autonomously. Is this a prelude to selling them off to private enterprise? Discussion and viewer talkback with Postmaster General Jonathan Hunt.

9A brief listing of the New Zealand and international news headlines.

10Post Office The announcement earlier this year that the Government was to increase postal charges and the fees for telephone services caused consternation among the public, given the Post Office's enormous profit last year. Now plans are afoot to streamline the Post Office, and that almost certainly means dividing it into three separate businesses - postal, telecommunications and banking divisions, run autonomously. Is this a prelude to selling them off to private enterprise? Discussion and viewer talkback with Postmaster General Jonathan Hunt.

11The bodies of three kidnapped Britons have been found on a mountain highway near Beirut. They were allegedly shot dead in retaliation for United States airstrikes on Tripoli and Benghazi earlier this week. There are reports that gangs are combing the Lebanese capital searching for Westerners to kill.

12A bomb was discovered at London's Heathrow Airport just before it could be taken aboard a Boeing El Al 747. A woman has been arrested, but the real culprit appears to be her Arab boyfriend, who had placed explosives in his pregnant girlfriend's hand luggage without her knowledge.

13The United States Department of Defense has today released the first pictures of the air raid on Libya.

14This week marks the 25th anniversary of the failed American Bay of Pigs invasion.

15United States President Ronald Reagan has repeated his hope that New Zealand will soon return to "its traditional role as a responsible ANZUS partner".