1A large region of Auckland is facing quarantine after three male Pacific Fruit Flies were found in a garden in Otahuhu. A desperate search is now underway by the Ministry of Agriculture (MAF) for more flies, especially any females. If any are found, a full-scale emergency will be declared.

2Independent Newspapers Limited (INL) has given striking workers an ultimatum. If all journalists do not return to work tomorrow, the company will close the Auckland Star. However support for the striking workers is growing throughout the country as more and more journalists walk off the job in solidarity.

3Meteorologists have admitted they failed to recognise in advance the seriousness of the storm that hit Taranaki this week causing widespread flooding and damage. Federated Farmers says such an admission makes a powerful argument for Government flood relief in Taranaki.

4New Zealand Tonight New Zealand headlines in brief: including; 1. An Auckland man uncovered two hand grenades in his basement while spring-cleaning. 2. The Greenpeace ship Gondwana arrived back in New Zealand today from the Antarctic, where it has chased whaling boats and raiding fishing vessels. 3. Baby Jessica, who was abandoned in an Otara park seven weeks ago as a newborn, may soon have a permanent home.

5Britain has responded angrily to the hanging of Farzad Bazoft, a British-based Iranian-born journalist, in Baghdad after being convicted on charges of having spied for Israel and Britain.

6World News Tonight World headlines in brief: including; 1. German and Czech leaders have faced each other in Prague to discuss the political upheavals in Eastern Europe. 2. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been handed enormous power which he plans to use to push through a radical reform package. 3. Visitors are flocking to an Ohio park where Buzzards are making their annual pilgrimage.

7Independent Newspapers Limited (INL) has given striking workers an ultimatum. If all journalists do not return to work tomorrow, the company will close the Auckland Star. This is one former employee's account of receiving his redundancy notice from a computer after thirty years service.

8New Zealand Police are being buried under mountains of paperwork. Why so many forms?

9Although Dire Straits' lead singer Mark Knopfler has been working on other projects recently, the band is never far from his mind.

10The Terrible Tenors from Minnesota have a very unique way of celebrating St Patrick's Day. How does New Zealand's Irish community celebrate?

11Exceptions have been made in the World Frog Jumping Contest to allow larger meat-eating species to participate under special conditions.