1Auckland Police are appealing for information regarding an iron bar used in last week's armed hold-up of the Mangere Bridge Post Office.

2Prime Minister David Lange is arriving in Auckland tonight following talks in New Caledonia with five separate pro-independence groups.

3Three opponents of the South African Government are continuing their sit-in at the British Consulate in Durban. However three others have been seized and arrested.

4Police in Czechoslovakia have placed a cordon around the West German embassy in Prague to try to put a halt to East Germans seeking asylum there.

5The American space shuttle Challenger flew over New Zealand a few minutes but could not be seen without special equipment. Today the astronauts were preoccupied with repairing their imaging dishes today after a fault.

6Norway scrambled two F16 fighter jets today to head off an American airliner carrying 200 passengers which had drifted 800 kilometres off course, almost reaching Soviet air space.

7A report prepared for the Minister of Customs says that Customs Officers do not like having to watch X-rated movies in order to determine whether the material is indecent or not, saying they do not believe they should be the defenders of public morality.

8A full-scale replica of Stonehenge may be built in an effort to save the 4000 year old monument from further damage from the 800,000 tourists who visit the monument each year.