1Parliament was in an uproar today over a Parole Board decision to parole double killer Brian Ronald MacDonald in February 1989 after he has served only eight years of a life sentence.

2New Zealand's ports are grinding to a standstill as harbour workers continue industrial action. Tension reached a peak in Lyttelton today.

3European Farm Ministers will meet next week to consider the proposed agreement between the European Community (EEC) and New Zealand over dairy and meat sales.

4Cabinet can not agree over how much of Air New Zealand should be sold and whether any buyer should get more than 25% of the airline.

5Cuba has released the Tampa Seahorse, the ship carrying New Zealand's America's Cup yacht to New York, from the Cuban port of Moa, where it was forced to dock by a Cuban Navy gunboat.

6Steinlager I has clinched victory in the Round Australia Bi-Centennial Yacht Race.

7A security van was hijacked during an armed robbery in Christchurch today.

8John Victor Evans, one of the men linked with failed mortgage company RSL Finance has over his interests in the Waitomo Country Lodge and today protestors picketed the Lodge, saying Evans still owes them money.

9The Broadcasting Corporation (BCNZ) has applied to the Broadcasting Tribunal for a warrant to set up a Maori radio network.

10Christchurch Prisons are suffering from the worst overcrowding in their history.

11Conservationists have won a five-year battle to have the Rakaia River covered by a National Conservation Order which will control the way it is used for irrigation .

12Police arson squads are investigating the cause of fires that have raged through more than 3000 hectares of bush near Sydney.

13Congressional investigators in the United States say Panamanian strongman General Manuel Noriega is a major shareholder in an international bank implicated in Colombia's cocaine trade.

14With the angora market collapsing, goats are once again being left to run wild, destroying the land as they go.

15An Auckland optician is selling the most expensive p[air of glasses ever to come to New Zealand.