1Trains are once again operating on the North Island main trunk line, for the time being, at least. This follows a rift within the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) after Union Secretary Don Goodfellow was quoted as saying members of the travelling public could "go to hell".

2A police and Navy investigation is under way in Nelson, following the death of en elderly visitor to the Australian submarine HMAS Orion.

3The Labour Party's Auckland conference came close to alienating supporters of the State of Israel today. Attempts were made to pass remits requiring the New Zealand Government to recognise the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and to condemn the Israeli Government for its allegedly racist and oppressive laws against non-Jewish inhabitants.

4Britain has ordered the expulsion of three Syrian diplomats following an attempt to blow up an Israeli airliner at Heathrow Airport last month. Spain has arrested ten suspected terrorists, including two who say they were paid by Libyan authorities to attack American businesses.

5The European Community (EEC) has decided to suspend all fresh food imports from Eastern Europe in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The accident at Chernobyl has sparked anti-nuclear protests in Western Europe, some of them violent. However, Soviet media is reporting that the situation is rapidly being brought under control. The official death toll is now four.