1. BANK - the Reserve Bank and Treasury are reported to be in conflict. ZOHRAB/VERSCHAFFELT..00:03:10.
2. TRAIN CRASH - goods train derailment at Taupiri, in the Waikato, last night. may have averted a serious accident involving a passenger train. WOOD/HOWARTH..00:02:41.
3. QANTAS - strong speculation in Australia that Qantas is still very much in the running for a stake in Air New Zealand..JOHN STEWART..00:01:13.
4. ANIMALS - people who mistreat animals may soon lose the right to own pets..WELLS/HANNAN..00:01:45.
5. HEADS & WEATHER
6. INDUSTRIALS - a number of industrial rows continue around the country today..PERFECT/HANNAN..00:02:30. STEVE MARSHALL - deputy director general of the Employers Federation..LIVE..00:04:37.
7. MOORE - Deputy finance minister says he has high hopes of establishing a compact with the union movement, after seeing a discussion document released by the Council of Trade Unions..MOORE/PERASON..00:02:31.
8. THORN - Clothing Workers Union says the decision by Lane Walker Rudkin to set up in Fiji is another nail in the coffin of the clothing industry..THORN/HANNAN..00:02:01.
9. PAKISTAN - Pakistan Peoples Party led by Benazhir Bhutto has emerged as the biggest single group in parliament but looks unlikely to gain an overall victory..BRODIE..WWC..00:01:04.
10. NEWS & SPORT
11. SCHOOL CERT - exams start today and the next two weeks will see 69 and a half thousand students sitting exams in a total of 29 subjects..SCOTT/RODENBURG..00:02:17.
12. SANCTIONS - the govt is considering further sanctions against South Africa MARSHALL/BARTLEY..00:01:57.
13. POLISH CARDINAL - the head of the Catholic Church in Poland Cardinal Josef Glemp flies home this morning after a short visit to New Zealand. MELVILLE..00:01:24.
14. HEADS & PAPERS
15. FIJI - expected to monitor the responses of New Zealand and Australia to its decision to suspend the interanl security decree which contained tough arrest without trial provisions..FOLSTER..00:01:45.
16. BLAKELY - environment secretary says the lack of coordinated rules covering hazardous substances makes further disasters such as the ICI fire almost inevitable..BLAKELY/NEWSAM..00:01:59.
17. MATIU - denies he had any formal discussion with the PM about doing a deal on Māori fishing rights..RATA/GEE..00:02:12.
18. PEACE CENTRE - a "think-tank" devoted to studying peace issues opens today at Auckland University..WHITE/KOPP..00:01:36.
19. BIG MAC - Fast food merchants McDonalds are going to be reducing or eliminating the use of artificial additives and colourings in their products..LLOYD/PLUNKET..00:02:00.
20. NICHOLSON - point of clarification to a story we ran yesterday..