1A formal complaint has been made to Energy Minister Bob Tizard after a Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reporter was struck at several times during a meeting outside Parliament today between Tizard and a group of Huntly miners, disgruntled at the job losses being inflicted on their town.

2Education Minister Russell Marshall has told those state servants who are likely to lose their jobs due to corporatisation of the state services, that they should consider retraining to become teachers.

3Government departments that have not been corporatised are to face a severe pruning of their operating budgets in an effort to achieve 10% spending cuts.

4The British House of Lords is expected to make a final ruling on whether a mentally handicapped seventeen year old girl should be sterilised for her own good.

5Bad weather is again hampering salvage workers trying to raise the sunken British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise off the coast of Belgium.

6Headline News 1. Unemployment figures dropped 2800 last month 2. Controversial commune leader Andy Narain is back in Masterton 3. The Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has increased its interest rates on first mortgage house loans by 1%.

7A meeting between mine workers, the Federation of Labour (FOL) and the Government over the voluntary severance row is continuing in the Beehive tonight. A background to the dispute,

8Today the Morling Royal Commission of Inquiry into the conviction of Michael and Lindy Chamberlain wound up.

9A plan is to be unveiled tomorrow to build a tunnel under the Waitemata Harbour, linking Auckland's North Shore with Auckland City. However, some are concerned that it does not provide for rail, and others prefer a second harbour bridge.

10Worldwatch Two workers have been contaminated by radioactive material at the Lucas Heights research laboratories in Sydney. However, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) says the amount of radiation that leaked during a fire last night would have "insignificant consequences for the public".

11Worldwatch The British Labour Party has toned down its anti nuclear defence policies even further, now saying it would not order American cruise missiles out of the United Kingdom, as long as talks continued between the Superpowers for a ban on all medium range nuclear weapons in Europe.

12Worldwatch A bomb, apparently intended for Philippines President Corazon Aquino, has gone off a day early at the country's leading military academy. Meanwhile, President Aquino has ordered all private armies in the Philippines to disband.

13Worldwatch Roman Catholic officials say the Vatican is in financial trouble and the Church will appeal to the world's Catholics to help out with the cash crisis. However, questions are being asked about the Vatican's money dealing.

14Worldwatch A report on how one wealthy South African family is breaking down the barrier of apartheid in one of the country's most exclusive public schools.

15Worldwatch United States President Ronald Reagan restated today that he was not aware of all the facts regarding the arms for hostages deal with Iran. He is mentally preparing for his first televised news conference in four months, which will take place tomorrow.

16Worldwatch Michael Deaver, a former White House aide, and personal friend of the President Ronald Reagan and the First Lady, was today charged with five counts of lying to Congress and a Grand Jury. This is likely to undermine President Reagan's effort to improve his public image and restore his credibility. Two other former White House aides, John Poindexter and Oliver North, have today been granted limited immunity, so they can testify before Congress on the Iran Contra arms deal. Where did the money from the arms sale to Iran end up? Some claim some of the money may have even found its way to the Islamic kidnappers holding American citizens hostage in Lebanon.

17Worldwatch United States President Ronald Reagan has narrowly won an important Senate vote over aid to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.