1A special Eyewitness News Heylen political poll contains several dramatic surprises. Labour has gained support; National has lost support; and Labour Leader David Lange has become more popular with voters. A detailed look at the poll results.

2Social Credit leader Bruce Beetham has launched his party's election campaign this evening in Hamilton.

3Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon has played downa challenge from Labour leader David Lange to release the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on the New Zealand economy. Lange says this would provide an independent and reliable assessment of the country's real economic prospects.

4Labour leader David Lange released his party's law and order policy in Masterton tonight, highlighting more community Police stations and more Police to combat crime.

5The Labour Party's proposed social accord between unions and employers if it wins next month's election has drawn a critical response from Minister of Labour Jim Bolger.

6New Zealand Party leader Bob Jones says he has been told by a senior Labour Party official that the Labour Party intends to float the exchange rate.

7The Government says it will boost New Zealand's international tourist image with an injection of a further $2 million into the Fund for Overseas Marketing.

8There has been an angry reaction to the news that the Social Welfare Department has decided not to pay the unemployment benefit to Marsden Point expansion workers who were sacked while they were on strike and then re-hired earlier this month.

9Britain's striking coal-miners are tonight preparing to blockade steelworks across the United Kingdom to force a showdown.

10Iraq is said to be bracing itself for a last-ditch Iranian assault involving up to half a million Iranian soldiers.

11Former United States Vice President Walter Mondale remains optimistic about becoming the Democrat challenger for the United States Presidency.

12The Broadcasting Corporation announced its allocation of free campaign air time to the political parties today and both Social Credit and The New Zealand Party have reacted angrily to the way time on radio and television will be split.