1. LABOUR - Party's annual conference convenes in Dunedin today FISHER..00:02:13.
2. ECONOMY - National and NZI Banks independently warn that the war against inflation has not been won..VERSCHAFFELT/KARACAUGLU..00:04:04.
3. STORM - which has swept over much of the North Island has re-kindled memories of Cyclone Bola..NEWSAM/HEALEY..00:04:11. NAPIER - weather has been unkind to people in the Napier area too. FOLEY..00:00:55.
4. SOUTH AFRICA - mounting speculation that the release of Nelson Mandela has come a step closer..he's been moved to a private clinic...FROST..00:01:27. MANDELA - his lawyer says Mandela will have had no say in the move..REICH/AYOB..00:02:10.
5. CAR PRICES - prediction that there'll be only small increases in car prices in response to the weakening Kiwi dollar.. RUSSELL/PEARSON. 00:02:29.
6. POST - NZ Post says it may have to cut back its rural delivery services. if private sector document exchanges catch on. WILSON/PLUNKET..00:01:59.
8. CARD FRAUD - credit card holders are being warned of a new type of fraud involving confidence tricksters..JONES/VERSCHAFFELT..00:02:20.
9. PALMER ON RACE ACT - law under which the Auckland Star has been ordered to apologise for its Kill-a-White story is to be repealed.. PALMER/JACKMAN..00:02:01.
10. COALCORP - has announced its going to sell houses and land that it currently manages in Huntly...RIGG..00:02:11.
11. SHOOTINGS - fierce rioting in Belfast overnight..CHALKLEY WRAP..00:01:46.
12. DEMOCRATS - in the American Presidential election campaign, they say further signs of tension within the Democratic Party.. RUFF..00:01:08.
13. HIGH FIRE - Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society blames irresponsible high country lease-hold farmers for fires which blackened thousands of hectares of scenic mountain land near Queenstown..KOPP/SMITH..00:03:06.
14. BROADCASTING - heads are confident that standards wan't droo when self regulation is introduced..WAKEM/IMPEY/HANNAN..00:01:44.
15. VETERAN - of Dunedin's last Labour Party Conference 40 years ago has returned for this year's conference..FLYNN/EVANS..00:02:05.