1There are persistent reports that the Government intends to introduce a mini-Budget, but it seems unlikely to happen until early next year.

2The latest unemployment figures show that the number of registered unemployed fell by over 3,500 in the past month.

3Two year old Hamilton boy Regan Chibnall is currently undergoing check-ups at Brisbane's Royal Children's Hospital while he waits for a liver transplant.

4A man was killed in a helicopter crash north of Christchurch this afternoon, This is the third fatal helicopter crash in five days.

5The British Government has defended its High Court bid to stop Wellington's Dominion newspaper from publishing further extracts from Peter Wright's controversial book Spycatcher.

6A West Auckland Maori Trust has resorted to legal action to recover $48,000 it loaned a local strawberry grower under the Government-funded Mana Enterprises Scheme.

7The Gisborne High Court was told to today that frustration and pressure to get results led a group of police detectives to become involved in kidnapping, assault and a subsequent cover-up while trying to get to the bottom of the Ruatoria arsons.

8There is a mood of optimism at the arms talks in Geneva as United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze meet to finalise the terms of the agreement.

9A joint documentary by Television New Zealand (TVNZ) and Independent Television (ITN) in Britain about French nuclear testing in the Pacific, has caused stir in the European Parliament, even before its screening.

10The High Court has thrown out an $11 million defamation case brought by Wellington-based Maxicrop plant food distributors Bell Booth against the Ministry oof Agriculture (MAF). On Television New Zealand's (TVNZ) Fair Go programme in April 1985, MAF claimed that Mexicrop did not work, an assertion with which Judge Ellis agreed.

11The multi-million dollar Kupe Group is facing legal action after it had an Auckland cafe demolished, as the cafe's owners were battling successfully in the courts to remain in the Kupe Group owned premises.

12A Northland woman who was left disfigured after being mauled by four dogs, is shocked at the District Court's handling of the case.

13The growing number of younger women suffering from cervical cancer has led to demands for establishing a national screening programme.

14Around 7000 police and troops in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland have been conducting a massive search for Irish Republican Army (IRA) weapons caches.