1Opposition leader Jim Bolger has denied a New Zealand Listener article that implies that new National Party President Neville Young advocates a Capital Gains Tax.

2Labour MPs voted today to send the Government's plans to reform the country's industrial relations system to a Caucus committee for further consideration. The move is being regarded as the start of a campaign to preserve the existing structure.

3A study into New Zealand's long-term energy future has concluded that nuclear power is a definite possibility.

4Soviet television has shown pictures of the first nuclear reactor at Chernobyl being restarted, five months after the disaster that killed 31 people.

5Brierley Investments Limited (BIL) will announce its annual profit to New Zealand investors later tonight.

6India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has survived an apparent assassination attempt in New Delhi.

7Members of the Police Diplomatic Protection Squad did not tell their superiors when sensitive security information about Prime Minister David Lange went missing in Wellington last week.

8The ,long process of getting the Tasman Pulp and Paper mill at Kawerau back into operation began today, following a ten-week shut down.

9The key Drivers' Award talks look to be near agreement, with an increase of 5% to 6% likely. Meanwhile, talks on the key Metal Trades Award have broken down.

10New Zealand's technical institutes and polytechs have made the largest ever single purchase of personal computers in New Zealand.

11The Soviet Union has made it clear that it wants arms control in Europe to be at the top of the agenda at next week's meeting between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and United States President Ronald Reagan in Iceland.

12The United States has seen a new addition to its nuclear weapons force - the Rockwell B-1 Lancer - a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber.

13Three million people are facing starvation in southern Sudan, but rebels have repeated their threat to shoot down relief planes and attack overland relief convoys.

14For the first time in fifteen years, today a steam locomotive puffed along the main line near Christchurch to mark the anniversary of the epic Christchurch to Dunedin trip of 1898.