1Labour backbencher Jim Anderton has expressed anger at Finance Minister Roger Douglas, who he has labelled a "union basher" and "a man who is trying to rewrite history to justify his own policies".

2Three men appeared in the Christchurch District Court today, charged with the truck bombing murder of Dennis Murray Drinkwater ten months ago.

3Parliament took the unusual step of sitting on a Saturday today, because the Government is taking urgency on several key Bills.

4Seventy people are thought to have been killed in East Berlin when Soviet airliner TU134 crashed while approaching the Schoenefeld Airport.

5A number of anti-apartheid activists have been rounded up by South African security forces following the imposition of new censorship regulations.

6A concealed gun at the entrance to Otago Harbour is about to become a major tourist attraction. The gun is a relic of the Russian invasion scare of last century.

7Space age war games were underway today at Auckland's new Laser Battleground but for more conventional military action, visitors were welcomed at the Papakura Military Camp's open day.

8Residents of Ruatoria are stunned and angry following two arsons which destroyed the town's fire station and badly damaged a Church on the local Marae.