1Former Opposition Leader Jim McLay is expected to announce that he is standing down from Parliament at the next election.

2After the first session of the Commonwealth Leaders' meeting in London, the seven leaders have agreed that South Africa's progress on abolishing apartheid has been inadequate. They will spend the next two days trying to agree on a plan of actions to take against South Africa. In London, the conference has entered its second day with all eyes on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

3The North American lamb market is growing and is proving lucrative to New Zealand. Therefore the financial troubles of DevCo, the company that sells all New Zealand lamb in the North American market, are hitting hard and affecting sales. An emergency management team have been brought in to restructure the company.

4Prime Minister David Lange has accused Auckland doctor Michael Cooper, and other members of the New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) of deliberately trying to dismember the Government's social policies.

5A Government Advisory Committee on infectious diseases has rejected the use of the cheaper, low dose vaccine in controlling Hepatitis B as it is not convinced it is effective.

6A Labour Department report released today predicts that 25% of Northland's workforce could be unemployed within the next year or so.

7A Court of Inquiry report released today concludes that correct mining procedures could have saved four miners killed in last year's Reefton coal mine disaster.

8The clean up continues at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. At least 28 people died in the meltdown, with hundreds or even thousands more likely to die as a result of exposure to radiation.

9Christchurch lawyer Neville Young has been elected as the new President of the National Party. A look at the last minute campaigning of the three main contenders for the party presidency.

10Christchurch lawyer Neville Young has been elected as the new President of the National Party. Now the party is trying to re-establish what it stands for. What is the National Party's basic philosophy? The leadership says it is a liberal-conservative philosophy based on the freedom of the individual and getting the State out of people's lives. Where does it stand on the world stage?

11Analysis of the National Party conference, including the remit discussion on abolishing the Ministry of Women's Affairs.

12Christchurch lawyer Neville Young has been elected as the new President of the National Party. Studio interview with Young about his plans for the National Party's future.

13Analysis of a Trans-Tasman offer for New Zealand Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) bank shares.

14A Government Advisory Committee on infectious diseases has rejected the use of the cheaper, low dose vaccine in controlling Hepatitis B as it is not convinced it is effective.

15More political changes are likely in Egypt as the nation's fifty million people face up to their country's financial crisis. Egypt is on the brink of bankruptcy despite years of United States aid.