1A group of prisoners have rioted at Addington Prison in Christchurch today, but were overcome by smoke from their own fire and were forced to give up.

2Transpac Holdings, though to be New Zealand's biggest road transport company, will continue to trade despite going into receivership today.

3Plans by Fletcher Challenge to buy the New Zealand Steel mill at Glenbrook have been blocked by the Commerce Commission.

4Deposed Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos face the prospect of a fifty year prison sentence after being indicted by a United States Grand Jury for allegedly looting the Philippines Treasury and defrauding American banks.

5There is still some confusion over how many people are missing after a Greek cruise liner, packed with British schoolchildren, sank after colliding with a British freighter.

6A block of shops in central new Plymouth was destroyed by fire early this morning.

7Around 200 Mongrel Mob gang members have turned up for their hui in Wellington this weekend, which police say has thus far been relatively quiet. There have been two arrests at a Black Power gathering on the other side of town.

8Five people have already died on New Zealand's roads so far this Labour Weekend.

9The fate of the three whales trapped by ice in Alaska has become a superpower issue. The Soviet Union has offered to send an icebreaker, but scientists are pinning their hopes on a United States helicopter carrying a huge block of concrete to smash up the ice.

10Pollen island in the Waitemata Harbour has been handed over to the new Auckland Port Company for development, despite being home to a rare ant and an extremely endangered species of moth.

11Transvestites have held their first New Zealand conference in an effort to reduce the discrimination and persecution they face.

12Whitebait have been in such short supply on the West Coast this season, that locals are having to find unique ways to make each fish go further.