3 NEWS. 05/08/1999

Hillary Barry, John Campbell

‘It’s Plain English’ - Taxes become the first critical election issue: fear tactics by Treasurer Bill English; Labour Finance Spokesman, Michael Cullen claiming tax attack.

‘Mushroom Cloud’ - Health minister Wyatt Creech in Australia: meeting on GM labelling of food and irradiated food.
‘Sydney Spill’ - A massive clean up under way on Sydney Harbour, was the oil spill sabotaged from an Italian tanker.

‘Fatal Floods’- torrential rain brought chaos in Asia and a landslide in the Philippines.

‘Plot Thickens’ - police have arrested the previous Minister of Public Works in a twist to Samoa’s murdered Cabinet Minister.

‘Tainui Name’ - Tainui have brought the name of Hamilton’s new sports stadium at 7M dollars.

Two of Britain’s top sports men find themselves in deep trouble over drugs.

The moment the stalk tried to arrive early, in the middle of a Wellington traffic jam.