1Prison inmate Dean Wickliffe has ended his hunger strike after 29 days. His case is to be re-heard by the Court of Appeal.

2The 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.

3Prime 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".

4The 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.

5Former cancer therapist Milan Brych has had charges of fraud and perjury against him dropped by police. Brych is to be granted parole from a prison in California in four months time, and is expected to be deported to New Zealand.

6The Soviet media reports that three officials have been punished by the Communist Party for underestimating the scope and seriousness of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The 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.

7The Government has completed phase one of its Great Qango Hunt, and will abolish fifty-six advisory bodies and councils. This will leave more than 800 quasi-autonomous non-Governmental organisations. But another sixty bodies have been listed for closer scrutiny.

8Seven Black South Africans have died in another weekend of violence.

9Nine people were injured and at least forty arrested in another violent protest outside Rupert Murdoch's print works in Wapping.

10Around 300,000 people demonstrated in New York in support of the right of Jews to leave the Soviet Union.

11The first New Zealand book on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is about to be released and seems certain to provoke controversy. Written by an Auckland AIDS researcher, the book contains standard advice on AIDS prevention, but it also takes some swipes at Health Department policy on the disease and makes some controversial claims about children carrying the AIDS antibodies.

12The Labour Party held two regional conferences last weekend. From Wellington came a string of anti-Government remits which prompted Prime Minister David Lange to explain the absence of Ministerial speakers by suggesting they would only have given the remits more importance than they deserved. However, the Auckland conference was prepared to give the Labour Government some support. A look at some of the divisions between the Labour Party and the Labour Government.