News, sport and weather.
Taiwanese squid boat aground at Owhiro Bay; National Party constitutional row - Minogue; industrial disputes - Marsden point, Kawerau; USA butter mountain dumping; rescue of rafters on Motu River; inquiry into Rural Bank loan to John Spencer; legality of breath testing; lax security at Parliament; retailers worried about slow Christmas sales; lifting of Martial Law in Poland; South African raid into Lesotho; Bulgarian secret; 3rd anniversary of NATO deployment of cruise missiles & demonstrations at Greenham Common; plane crash in Newcastle; cricket - Victoria vs NZ; ‘Nationwide’, interview with Kiri Te Kanawa; University making documentary on violin playing.
TODAY TONIGHT
Methanol tank collapses in high winds at Port Taranaki; 47 people arrested in Wellington in crackdown on crime; commemoration of Abel Tasman discovering NZ - astrolabe at Cape Foulwind; Alfred McArthy & wife drowned at Pauatahanui in their car during flooding; Sir David Beattie opening Hospice; Wellington mayoral candidate Helen Ritchie; haggis hurling in Palmerston North Square; Palmerston Nth Centrepoint Theatre has not folded yet; Wellington provincial rugby team returns from overseas tour; Bas Tubert on officer cadet graduation at Waiouru including woman graduate Kathryn Goudie.