1Domestic consumers are expected to bear the brunt of power blackouts if electricity workers carry out their planned industrial action at the end of March.

2Finance MInister Roger Douglas has labelled New Zealand's health system as "inefficient" and "losing touch with the poor" has appointed a group of finance and health specialists to consider how the health system can be overhauled.

3The British Court of Appeal has ordered that a seventeen year old intellectually handicapped girl be sterilised for her own good. The decision sets a legal precedence in Britain. Currently in New Zealand, there is a drive to allow the courts to make similar decisions in individual cases.

4Bad weather is hampering the operation to salvage the sunken British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise off the port of Zeebrugge.

5Financial experts from ten firms are to contest each other in The Great Investment Race, a competitive time trial to turn a starting price of $100,000 each into as much as possible in six months. The prize, which is all the profits made, will go to children's charities.

6New Zealand's 1728 state coal workers were informed by letter today whether or not they will have a job after April 1st. The new Coal Corporation is to shed around 800 staff. Those who are to lose their jobs will not be allowed to return to the mines. 484 workers have been dismissed in Huntly, a town that already has a high number of unemployed residents. The Government has informed miners who have retained jobs, that if they turn down a position with the new Coal Corporation, they will not receive any severance pay. Interview with the Chairman of the New Zealand Coal Corporation (CoalCorp), John Perham.

7Interview with an anti-nuclear activist, whose nomination last year for the position of Bishop of Wellington, upset many Anglicans in New Zealand.

8Beds of Queen Scallops, found off the Otago Coast, could provide work for trawlers and new processing plants.

9Worldwatch Figures show that crime in Britain has reached an all time high, with offenses being committed every eight seconds in England and Wales. Two reports: 1. Analysis of the statistics and possible reasons for the crime wave 2. The changing role of the British 'Bobby' (police officer)

10Worldwatch The spy row over American Jew Jonathan Pollard has led to bad blood between the United States and Israel.

11Worldwatch All Americans who have had a blood transfusion in the eight years prior to automatic testing (1977-1985) are being encouraged to take AIDS tests.

12Worldwatch A new lotion is purporting to be the cure for baldness in men.

13Worldwatch Animal liberationists in Australia object to duck hunting - 150 dead birds were dumped outside the State Cabinet.

14Worldwatch Australian animal lovers have dumped 150 bird carcasses outside a meeting of the Victoria State Cabinet, to highlight the shooting of protected birds during on the first day of the official duck hunting season. The dumping of animal carcasses in Victoria and other Australian states, follows a refusal by the Supreme Court to stop this year's shooting season.

15Worldwatch Conservationists in Scotland are trying to stop tree-planting in Caithness Flows, one of the last wild areas of Britain.