1Crisis talks at the Beehive tonight between four Cabinet Ministers, the Police Association and the Public Service Association [PSA] (representing prison officers), have just broken up with moves towards a compromise reached.

2Government MPs have been talking ad nauseam about inconsequential trivia this evening in an effort to prevent the introduction of a Private Member's Bill by Opposition MP Bill Birch calling for a public inquiry into immigration.

3An anti mining protest on the Coromandel Peninsula has ended in confrontation and arrests.

4Rebel inmates remain in control of parts of Strangeways Prison tonight. Only one death has been confirmed.

5Finance Minister David Caygill has promised New Zealanders a simpler and cheaper tax system.

6Three more cases of Legionnaires Disease have been discovered in Christchurch. All three people worked in Transport House where four cases were found last month.

7The first tests for poisonous formaldehyde gas in Christchurch homes have been completed and the results show all of the homes tested contain excessive levels of formaldehyde. The culprit appears to be the composite flooring used in their construction.

8Lithuania has begun informal talks with Moscow, but at the same time the Soviet Union has tightened its grip by partially closing Lithuania's border with Poland.

9Israel is denying Arab claims that a newly-launched satellite is a spy craft carrying equipment to monitor military activity.

10The sub-sonic Stealth Bomber was officially unveiled in the United States today.

11Former Philippines First Lady Imelda Marcos has been accused of treating Filipino public funds "like a piggybank" in her court trial today. Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi is Marcos' co-defendant.