1. VIDEO SUSPECTS - support gathers for police videoing of suspect interviews.. STAPLETON/WILSON/PEREIRA..00:04:00.
2. INTEREST RATES - Consumers Institute claims that lending Institutions aren't doing enough to reduce their interest rates.. RUSSELL/PLUNKET..00:02:03.
3. RAE WESTON - call for Sir Ron Brierley to step down as chairman of the Bank of New Zealand. if his company is bidding for the Bank.. WESTON/PLUNKET..00:02:06.
4. BUDGET - Australia's treasurer will bring down the national budget tonight.. DOBELL..00:01:37.
5. HEADS & WEATHER
6. WAITANGI - tribunal turns down claim from Noati Kahu people against plans to build sewage ponds on ancestral land.. LATTIMER/GEE..00:02:15.
7. SALARIES - Universities told they can pay up to 25 percent more on top of existing pay scale for get and keep the academic staff they need.. HALL/SHARLAND..00:02:26.
8. PPTA - Minister of Education is likelty to be in for a testing time when he attends the annual conference today. CHAPMAN/RODENBURG..00:01:57.
9. COALCORP - rejects Opposition claims that the award of mining licences to the Corp will boost its assets in advance of privatisation.. NEWSAM..00:01:56.
10. WHALES - geologists have dug up the skeletons of about 20 baleen whales in North Otago.. FORDYCE/GEE..00:02:24.
11. BEATRICE - The Duke and Duchess of York have announced that their daughter is to be called Beatrice Elizabeth Marv.. CHALKLEY..00:01:22.
12. NEWS & SPORT
13. MURUROA - is now thirty years since France started testing.. TIM MARSHALL..00:02:59.
14. FIJI AID - Coalition for Democracy in Fiji and the govt are at odds over a decision to send a NZ aid mission to Fiji.. WILDE/PEREIRA..00:02:25.
15. HEADS & PAPERS
16. CAYGILL - has criticised hospital boards which are complaining about inadequate funding.. CAYGILL/BARTLEY..00:03:06.
17. PARENTS - National organisation of Parents Centres says its time health administrators started taking notice of the consumers of the services they provide.. EAGLES/RODENBURG..00:02:20.
18. KING - of Tonga has met Māori leaders at a private hui to seek support for a proposed Polynesian Community bloc.. KING OF TONGA/FOLSTER..00:02:26.
19. WEATHER - Meteoroligical Society condemns latest cutbacks in staffing at the MOT.. MCGREGOR/CHAPPELL..00:02:51.