1Analysis of the latest Eye Witness - Heylen political poll which shows Labour gradually regaining some of the support it had previously lost to National. It also revels that two months into the job, Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer is increasingly popular with voters.

2Six months after they disappeared, and despite their bodies still not having been found, police have charged a Paremoremo Prison inmate with the murder of Swedish tourists Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen. The charge against David Wayne Tamihere creates New Zealand legal history - the first time someone has been charged with murder when no bodies have been found.

3The National Business Review (NBR) has been sold to overseas business interests.

4After eleven days idle, New Zealand's four container ports could remain closed well into next week in protest at the Government's new Port Reform legislation.

5Social workers say the fatal stabbing of a five year old West Auckland girl by her mentally ill mother highlights their concerns about the service they can offer, the training they receive and the resources they have available to them.

6A patient with a broken leg waited 15 hours at Middlemore Hospital last night, to be told that his operation was cancelled because there was no blood available. This is the latest example of increasing pressure on hospital resources and staff leading to delays in treatment.

7South Africa has released a number of its high profile political prisoners, but not Nelson Mandela.

8A leading Australian economic commentator and consultant claims New Zealand is out of step with the rest of the world in going as far as it has in allowing cheap imports to invade the country. Neville Norman maintains that the Government needs to be encouraging the development of local industry in New Zealand.

9Will public sympathy for those wrongly accused of child sex abuse leave genuine victims more vulnerable in the future? A close look at the way Taranaki is handling the situation.