1Solvent Abuse Glue has become the cheap thrill of the street kids, their way of realities of broken home, unemployment and the general aimlessness of youth. Glue, or solvent, has replaced cigarettes as the 'guilty pleasure' of choice. The long term effects of solvent abuse are still not clearly understood, but informed medical opinion suggests nerve damage, sight and hearing defects, brain, liver and kidney damage, as well as the immediate danger of asphyxiation or death while in a drug-induced state. Who is to blame - the kids, their parents, the police or the Government? What should be done about this problem - lock up the sniffers, prosecute shopkeepers or ban glue? Discussion and viewer talkback with two people on the front line of the fight to tackle solvent abuse.

2The Soviet Union says the Chernobyl nuclear crisis is over. It wants to restart the other three reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power site. The first television images of the area inside the eighteen mile exclusion zone have been released.

3A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

4News Limited of Australia, owned by newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch, has been granted permission to increase its shareholding in Independent Newspapers Limited from 22% to 40%. Meanwhile, there has been more picket line violence outside Murdoch's new printing plant at Wapping in London.

5A memorial service has been held in Bradford, marking the Bradford City stadium fire a year ago, in which 56 people were killed and 265 people suffered injuries.

6The Princess of Wales, currently on tour in Japan, has come face to face with a 200 kilogram sumo wrestler.

7Solvent Abuse Glue has become the cheap thrill of the street kids, their way of realities of broken home, unemployment and the general aimlessness of youth. Glue, or solvent, has replaced cigarettes as the 'guilty pleasure' of choice. The long term effects of solvent abuse are still not clearly understood, but informed medical opinion suggests nerve damage, sight and hearing defects, brain, liver and kidney damage, as well as the immediate danger of asphyxiation or death while in a drug-induced state. Who is to blame - the kids, their parents, the police or the Government? What should be done about this problem - lock up the sniffers, prosecute shopkeepers or ban glue? Discussion and viewer talkback with two people on the front line of the fight to tackle solvent abuse.

8A brief listing of the New Zealand and international news headlines.

9Solvent Abuse Glue has become the cheap thrill of the street kids, their way of realities of broken home, unemployment and the general aimlessness of youth. Glue, or solvent, has replaced cigarettes as the 'guilty pleasure' of choice. The long term effects of solvent abuse are still not clearly understood, but informed medical opinion suggests nerve damage, sight and hearing defects, brain, liver and kidney damage, as well as the immediate danger of asphyxiation or death while in a drug-induced state. Who is to blame - the kids, their parents, the police or the Government? What should be done about this problem - lock up the sniffers, prosecute shopkeepers or ban glue? Discussion and viewer talkback with two people on the front line of the fight to tackle solvent abuse.

10A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

11The Soviet Union says the Chernobyl nuclear crisis is over. It wants to restart the other three reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power site. The first television images of the area inside the eighteen mile exclusion zone have been released.

12A crowd in Soweto has stoned a police officer who came to take away the bodies of three youths who ere killed there.

13Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor has testified before the United States Senate sub-committee on AIDS. She became involved in the campaign to prevent the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) following the death of her close friend, fellow actor Rock Hudson.

14Although there is still no cure in sight for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), a new treatment being tried out on children is working to prolong their lives.

15An elderly Californian woman has received back the combat medals and faded photographs of her son, who was in the Marines and killed during World War Two. The medals were stolen from her home 36 years earlier.