1Prime Minister David Lange has written to Di McLean, the wife of a Marton farmer, to apologise for his earlier letter containing a handwritten note calling her a "fraud".

2The Soviet Union says the Chernobyl nuclear crisis is finally over, but a top Russian physicist admits that at one point there was a real chance of catastrophe at the plant. The first television images of the area inside the eighteen mile exclusion zone have been released.

3The headmaster of the mainly Polynesian Onehunga Primary School has confirmed the incidence of what the Race Relations Conciliator has called "white flight" from schools with a more mixed ethnic population.

4Complicated legal matters have kept and counsel in chambers today at the beginning of the trial for the murder of Auckland woman Maxine Walters.

5Prison inmate Dean Wickliffe has ended his hunger strike after 29 days. His case is to be re-heard by the Court of Appeal.

6New Zealand's two biggest stock firms, Wrightson NMA and Dalgety Crown, today announced a cut in farm lending.

7The Government has failed to get the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) to drop its attempts to get a worldwide boycott on New Zealand lamb in protest at the live sheep trade.

8Syria has ordered three British diplomats to leave the country in retaliation for the British expulsion of three Libyan diplomats from London.

9Efforts are being made to calm tensions between Israel and Syria which have been threatening to lead to direct military action.

10The Railways strike is over, but although operations returned to normal in most parts of New Zealand today, not everything is as it was before.

11New Zealand has a national shortage of physiotherapists, and long term hospital patients are suffering the most.

12The mystery owners of a $150,000 lottery ticket have finally claimed their prize.

13The University of Otago is launching a contest aimed at the new generation of computer users. A $2000 national computer art contest aims to take originality from young and old.

14The Prince and Princess of Wales are continuing to bedazzle the Japanese public.