1The Labour Party's Industrial spokesman Eddie Isbey appears to have let the cat out of the bag on one of Labour's economic planks. Isbey says he is favour of calling an economic summit In the style of Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's 'consensus politics', involving the Government, employers and unions to look at wage and price guidelines and to discuss a social contract between the Government and wage earners.

2Labour Party Finance Spokesman Roger Douglas has admitted that he made an error in circulating an economic paper which seems to support devaluation of the New Zealand Dollar. Labour has since been forced to announce that they will not devalue the dollar if they become Government.

3Waipa MP Marilyn Waring is receiving plenty of support through the post, despite being blamed by Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon for the snap election.

4An asbestos problem that has gone unnoticed for almost fifty years has sparked a cancer scare in the fertiliser industry. The commonly used fertiliser Serpentine has been found to contain asbestos and now Serpentine miners are showing signs of early ling disease.

5The three month long British Coal Miners' strike has seen fierce confrontations today. Thirty Police officers have been injured and more than 100 people arrested in hand-to-hand battles.

6Two human embryos being kept frozen at a medical centre in Melbourne have raised unheard of legal and ethical questions. The embryos belonged to an American couple who have since died in a plane crash, and now there are questions over what should be done with them. Are they the legal heirs to the couple's fortune?

7Four Iranian Airforce officers who hijacked a military plane have surrendered to French Police after being refused political asylum.

8United States Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger has described a new claim that the Korean airliner shot down by the Soviet Union in September 1983 was on a spying mission as "a total set of lies".

9Could the snap election deprive some people of the vote? The rush to enrol to vote has pushed the number of eligible voters to a new record and there has been chaos at Electoral Roll Headquarters in Wellington as staff try to deal with the rush to enrol.