1Prime Minister David Lange believes that more than two and a half thousand farmers will have to walk off their farms this year

2A protest against live sheep exports is threatening an earlier agreement between exporters and unions.

3The New Zealand dollar is struggling to recover from a rough night on overseas money markets.

4Police have thrown a security cordon around Auckland's Mount Eden Prison tonight after two remand prisoners climbed onto the prison roof and refused to come down.

5Auckland Coroner Stephen Osborne says there is a groundswell of public demand for the mandatory seizure of vehicles driven by drunk drivers.

6Prime Minister David Lange hinted tonight that the Government will be looking for much closer defence ties with Australia when it unveils its Defence Review later this year.

7Greenpeace has been given the go-ahead to sink the Rainbow Warrior off Matauri Bay, despite calls from Transport MInister Richard Prebble to make the vessel a national monument.

8Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has announced that he will make a televised address to the country in a few hours. It is assumed he will be addressing the subject of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. More Soviet officials have begun talking openly about the severity of the radiation threat, what is being done to mitigate the situation, and what remains to be done.

9The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRFU) has taken the first steps in dealing with the rebel rugby players currently touring South Africa as the Cavaliers. The Council has told players to urgently seek clearance to play in South Africa and to seek a statutory declaration that they are not being paid for the tour. Players not in New Zealand next Monday will not be eligible for All Black trials. The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) has changed its policy on South African tours as it faces the prospect of its top players heading to South Africa as part of a rebel team later in the year. In defiance of Australian Federal Government policy, the ARU says it will consider all invitations from South Africa.

10Television Violence (Part Two of Three) There is a growing conviction that there is a direct link between violence on television and growing violence in society. This item analyses the results of a specially commissioned Heylen poll which looks at what New Zealanders think about the amount of violence on television and whether the amount of screen violence is increasing or decreasing.