Checkpoint. 1995-08-18

Details begin to emerge about accident which killed seven climbers on world's second highest mountain, K2, near the Pakistan-Chinese border/DANIEL LAK pre-rec
Controversial Stratford Power Station now looks as if it may not get built because of arguments over whether it can be connected to the National Grid/BRUCE THOMSON of ECNZ LIVE
Annual conference of the National party gets underway in Dunedin/JANICE RODENBURG live
1720 2.00 HEADS:
5.00 TODAY IN AUSTRALIA: main item; no flag burning to be allowed in Aus
Serious Fraud Office launches full investigation into what it says is wide-spread tampering with odometers in used car imports/CLARE PASLEY Motoring writer Peter Gill on above/LIVE
1737 3.00 SPORTS: Brian Waddle
1740 2.00 NEWS:
RNZN vessel "Tui" ties up in Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, and is now preparing for voyage to Muroroa atoll, to protest French nuclear testing/MARK CRYSELL
Attempts by Te Kuiti police to place restrictions on teenagers after dark have come under fire from youth advocacy organisations/LEIGH-ANNE WIIG
Major report looking at the way countries treat women says if women's work was accurately reflected in national statistics, it would shatter the myth that men are the main breadwinners of the world/CLAIRE O'BRIEN
2.00 BUSINESS NEWS:
1800 6.00 NEWS, TRAIL AND WEATHER
A well-known community group specialising in community mental health services is being accused by its own clients of abandoning them, and causing them huge emotional trauma and anxiety/MARY WILSON
12.00 MANA NEWS:
5.00 PACIFIC NEWS