1Secondary school teachers are threatening to take industrial action over the Government's blueprint for the changed education system, Tomorrow's Schools.

2A pilot was killed today when his top dressing helicopter crashed near a primary school.

3The Government today accused Opposition leader Jim Bolger - or one of his staff - of having caused last week's run on United Building Society.

4Unemployment has risen dramatically in the last quarter, but the Government says it has no intention of pulling back from its economic strategy. A look at the situation in the small Canterbury town of Temuka, where 25% of adults eligible to work are currently unemployed.

5Sixty workers lost their jobs today at the Kiwi Bacon factory in Auckland. However, the company have taken some steps to help ease the pain of redundancy for their workers.

6Dan Quayle's future in the United States Presidential race is becoming more tenuous each day. Today the Republican Vice Presidential candidate has found himself at the centre of a sex scandal.

7The machete murder of a Tongan man in Otara in April may produce in one of the most expensive trials to come before the High Court, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal aid for the eleven accused.

8A 21 year old English tourist has survived a 500 metre plummet down the side of Mount Ngauruhoe.

9The managing director of Burberry Finance, recently placed into receivership, has been seriously injured in a road accident.

10Polish authorities have begun arresting striking workers and a number of activists from the outlawed Solidarity trade union movement.

11Television coverage is being used as a bargaining chip in the troubled America's Cup challenge in San Diego.

12Dan Quayle's future in the United States Presidential race is becoming more tenuous each day. Today the Republican Vice Presidential candidate has found himself at the centre of a sex scandal. A look at how his alleged past indiscretions have been satirized in song.