1. BILLION - annual rate of inflation has dropped to a twenty year low of four point seven percent AND Dairy Board forecast that export earnings will rise by over a billion dollars this year..FROST/GOUGH..00:2:15. DICKENS - economist says the fall in the annual rate of inflation is a real achievement..DICKENS/BECKFORD..00:2:58. BANKER ADD - David Caygill is pleased with the figure but concerned interest rates seem to be stuck at their present level..MACAULAY/BECKFORD. HAWKE - latest Australian trade figures are due out soon and its widely predicted that they'll show a massive jump in the trade deficit..
2. CTU - annual inflation rate is an important factor in each years wage round..HARRIS/SHARLAND..00:2:40.
3. HEADS & WEATHER
4. CONTROL - high level govt sources say Treasury has overstepped the mark in dropping the Australian National Line from the shortlist of bidders for the Shipping Corporation..PEREIRA..00:1:38. PICKET - on the Tui is still preventing it being unloaded in Auckland. HEWITT/HIRST..00:1:54. PICKET TWO - ship's officers threatening to go on strike at the end of the month..SHARLAND..
5. DOCTORS - Junior doctors say industrial action may be necessary to maintain health care standards in public hospitals..SIDEBOTTOM/HOWARTH..
6. TALKY TALKY - PSA still planning further power strikes next week.. NEWSAM..00:1:54.
7. CLIMATE CHANGE - investigation into the implications of the Greenhouse efect on NZ has entered its second phase and the interpretation of the date and scenarios made by a scientific committee over the last year is now underway..KOPP..00:3:07.
8. TOURISTS - Hotel Corp says it doesn't have the resources to check whether overseas travel operators are overcharging tourists coming to this country..CELLESEN/NOWLAND..00:1:41.
9. NEWS & SPORTS
10. INAUGURAL - thousands of well-heeled Americans are swarming into Washington for the costliest presidential inauguration in American history.. LAWN WRAP;..00:2:07. INAUGURAL TWO - thousands of homeless people will NOT be eating at the Jockey Club or at the 1500 dollar-a-plate dinner at Union Station..SCHNEIDER..00:3:52.
11. HEADS & PAPERS
12. AUSSIE ECONOMY - as we've been reporting, it's been an encouraging week for the Govts economic policies..MCQUILLAN..00:2:35.
13. FOREST - implications of the Treaty of Waitangi on the govts plans to sel its commercial forestry assets will be thrashed out later this week..RATA/GEE..00:2:11.
14. PROJECT EXPORT - Marketing companies and exporters in Hawkes Bay are considering a four million dollar plan to extend Napier Airport's runway. FOLEY/ROSS..00:1:50.
15. SCOTT - sixty three thousand students will today receive their school certificate results..SCOTT/RODENBURG..00:2:16.