1The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) carried out an aerial survey of the outer Cook Islands, struck by Cyclone Sally. Amateur video has emerged of the conditions in Rarotonga during the cyclone.

2Violent crime has increased by nearly 50% in the last decade, according to the Justice Department's submissions to the Government Committee of Inquiry into Violence.

3Police are looking for two men who robed the Albany Post Office branch of around $45,000 this morning, leaving the Postmistress bound and gagged. Meanwhile, in Christchurch today, a man took $6000 at gunpoint from a suburban Post Office.

4Former British Prime MInister Harold MacMillan was buried in a humble village churchyard today.

5South Africa's Opposition Party says it will ignore the country's latest censorship laws as they prepare for the upcoming all-White elections. Meanwhile, the suburb of Woodstock in Cape Town, regarded by some as a model for peaceful race relations, is being threatened by South Africa's continued policy of apartheid.

6It has been confirmed that Petrocorp's new gas field in Taranaki is a producer.

7A Russian seaman, seriously ill with acute appendicitis, prompted a major helicopter mercy mission last night, to get him airlifted off a fishing trawler.

8The Greenpeace Antarctic expedition ship left Lyttelton this evening, en route to Ross Island, where the group hopes to establish a camp.

9Work has begun on a new terminal at Wellington Airport to provide operating facilities for Ansett New Zealand.

10Cyclone Sally has destroyed most of the Cook Islands' export food crops and the islands' economic future looks bleak. Hopes now rest with tourism as an income earner to help restore the Cook island economy.