1A new round of price cuts has begun, with Air New Zealand announcing that weekend Auckland to Sydney flights will be cut by 50% during November. Some return fares to Perth are also being reduced. it is expected that other airlines will soon follow suit.

2Mount Cook Airlines is meeting growing opposition in its bid to start a direct Auckland to Queenstown flight on Jetlink, using chartered Boeing 737 aircraft. Locals are concerned at potential noise levels.

3A ten-year old Tauranga boy is being hailed a hero after he ran several hours through steep dense bush to get help and then led rescuers to his badly injured father deep in the Coromandel Forest.

4Seven Boy Scouts have just been lifted out of the Silver Peaks area by helicopter.

5The New Zealand Navy fisheries patrol boat HMNZS Hawea today rescued six people from a catamaran in trouble off the coast of Warkworth.

6New Zealand traffic officers are hoping Labour Weekend will end quietly on the roads. The road toll currently stands at six, less than half that of last year.

7British newspapers are reporting that the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party (and best-selling author), Jeffrey Archer paid a prostitute to leave the United Kingdom in order to avoid a scandal.

8At least five Black South African miners died when a lift plunged down a ventilation shaft at a gold mine near Johannesburg.

9A Thai airliner made an emergency landing in Osaka last night after a mid-air explosion, which injured forty people. It is believed to have been caused by a mechanical failure.

10The Australian skipper of the trawler Southern Raider, fired on and sunk by the French Navy earlier this o=month says it was a case of mistaken identity.

11As a result of pressure from the Thatcher Government, the City of London Stock Exchange will undergo some unprecedented changes this week. For the first time in centuries, foreign investment companies will be allowed to compete in the British market.