1A Post Office report outlining plans to split the Post Office into three separate trading corporations has been criticised as "superficial . . . damaging, undesirable and in some cases, unnecessary".

2Reports say that four people have been killed and nine injured in a bomb explosion aboard a Trans World airliner above Greece. The bomb ripped a large hole in the plane's fuselage and two women, a man and a baby were sucked out. The pilot landed the plane successfully at Athens Airport. Although retaliation for the United States' clash with Libya in the Gulf of Sidra was expected, the bomb blast has taken American officials by surprise.

3The Reagan Administration has rejected a call by leading antI apartheid campaigner Bishop Desmond Tutu to impose immediate punitive economic sanctions against South Africa.

4A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

5Doctors' Fees General practitioners (GPs) have called for an increase in their basic consultancy fee, triggering an angry response from the Minister of Health and Minister of Finance. Interview and talkback with the President of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA).

6A brief listing of the New Zealand and international news headlines.

7Doctors' Fees General practitioners (GPs) have called for an increase in their basic consultancy fee, triggering an angry response from the Minister of Health and Minister of Finance. Interview and talkback with the President of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA).

8A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

9Reports say that four people have been killed and nine injured in a bomb explosion aboard a Trans World airliner above Greece. The bomb ripped a large hole in the plane's fuselage and two women, a man and a baby were sucked out. The pilot landed the plane successfully at Athens Airport. A previously unknown Palestinian group, the Arab Revolutionary Cell, has claimed responsibility for the blast, saying it is in response to American military action against Libya. However Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been quick to distance himself from the attack, saying he opposes the bombing of civilian targets.

10The situation in the Middle East is the subject of new talks between the United States and Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has met with United States Vice President George Bush where he put forward new ideas for reviving the Middle East peace process.

11There are signs of increasing tension between Israel and Syria over the Golan Heights.

12Greenpeace has targeted the huge Sellafield nuclear power plant on the English Coast as a protest of its dumping of nuclear waste into the ocean.