1. GISBORNE - life slowly returning to normal..HANDFORD LIVE..00:02:51. TE PURU - residents continuing to clean up after creek water poured through houses..MOOSHER/GREGORY..00:01:57. FORESTERS - counting cost of this week's storm..ELLIOT/GILL..00:01:44. FARMERS - Federated say Cycloe already looks like the worst natural disaster to hit farming community IN YEARS..chamberlain/newsam..00:03:06.
2. HEADS & WEATHER
3. STATE SECTOR - Beehive meeting between the CTU and the govt..JACKMAN RODGER/BURGESS/PREBBLE..00:04:04.
4. STORM STRIKE - many public servants and teachers in storm-battered parts of the country will not be taking part in any industrial action..RODENBURG..00:02:39.
5. SUPER TUESDAY - George Bush virtually assured of the Republican Presidential nominiation..LAWN/BUSH/DUKAKIS ACTUALITY..00:01:36.
6. HIJACK - Tass says a Soviet stewardess and three passengers are dead after an attempted hijack..HARRIS..00:01:37.
7. NEWS & SPORT
8. POVERTY - deputation of Bay of Plenty people met Colin Moyle to discuss the slump hitting the horticultural sector..FISHER/LOWDON/MOYLE..00:03:06.
9. JACOB - fundraising appeal has been launched to send a five year old boy to Australia for a bone marrow transplant..SHARLANT/WRAP/WALOOCK..00:02:02.
10. HEADS & PAPERS
11. CLOTHING - NZ industry reported to be reeling from an import of cheap garments from Fiji./HARDING/FOLSER..00:02:19.
12. ABORTION - two doctors working at the Auckland Medical Aid Trust Hospital have been censured for their part in performing an abortion on a woman who kept changing her mind. KINGSTON/WRAP/BARRY-MARTIN..00:02:26.
13. SHIELDS - Margaret says she can understand that state sector women are cynical about the govts motives in setting up a new equal pay and opportunities working party..FISHER/SHEILDS..00:02:21.
14. SINGH - Karpel reported to have been -rearrested soon after a court ordered his release from jail..NETTLESHIP..00:01:19.
15. SQUIRM - following yesterday's appeal for live earthworms, thousands of them have been unearthed..CAVILL/NCKENZIE..00:01:45.