1Police MInister Ann Hercus has admitted in Parliament that a wager was behind a mock raid on a guarded plane in the Chatham Islands.

2The Ministry of Transport (MOT) will not be taking any action against Prime MInister David Lange or the pedestrian he hit with his car in Wellington last week.

3The final boundaries for the next election were released today, with both major parties claiming significant advantages.

4Prime Minister David Lange and Opposition leader Jim Bolger have traded verbal blows over the Government's anti nuclear policy and the future of the United States' Operation Deep Freeze Antarctic Base in Christchurch.

5Interest rates have soared to record levels.

6Police have made a huge drug haul in the Coromandel town of Waihi today. Twenty people have been arrested, and they expect to make more arrests in the 24 hours.

7Salvage experts have successfully righted the British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise off the coast of Belgium. Divers are tonight recovering dozens of bodies.

8Long serving British Conservative Party MP Harvey Proctor is to face charges over spanking sessions with young men.

9Northern Ireland is being hit by a new wave of violence. The funeral for a top member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was put off for the second day running, when Belfast police clashed with mourners.

10Police are being taken off Auckland's streets to act as prison wardens for new inmates locked out of Mount Eden Prison. However, prison officials say that overcrowding at Napier Prison is even worse than the situation at Mount Eden.

11The High Court has issued an interim injunction, halting the one hour daily strikes by firefighters in the lower North Island.

12The withdrawal of New Zealand troops from Singapore was top of the agenda when Prime Minister David Lange met Singapore's Foreign MInister Suppieh Dhanabalan at Parliament today.

13Australian Prime MInister Bob Hawke warned today that any Pacific nation dealing with Libya is making a "grave mistake". His warning comes amid increasing concern that LIbya is trying to extend its sphere of influence in the Pacific.

14A spy scandal is developing around the new United States Embassy in Moscow. The Americans say the building is riddled with KGB bugging devices and are refusing to move in. They are also refusing to allow the Soviets tom move into their new Embassy building in Washington DC until the problem is solved.