TV3 NEWS. 20/10/2006

News, sport and weather.

A Parliamentary Committee is recommending that the drinking age be raised from 18 back to 20, and the issue will go to a conscience vote in Parliament. Plus some businesses are complaining of underhand police tactics in sending minors in to purchase alcohol from them. Ingrid Hipkiss (3 News); Ron Mark (Select Committee Chairman); Sue Bradford (Green MP); Beverley Lockhart (3 News); Voxpop; Alice Stafford (Surf Life Saver); Jessica Stringer (SADD); Caroline Nairn (Barista); Touzelle Bremner (Café Owner); Inspector Paul Dimery (Whangarei Police); Bradley Giles (Publican).

Wi Huata is back behind bars after he and wife/former ACT MP Donna Awatere Huata lost their appeal against their fraud conviction.

The stand-off between Housing New Zealand and the family of a deceased tenant of a State House is apparently over.

National MP Bob Clarkson is claiming he was assaulted by Labour MP Trevor Mallard.

The Diplomatic Protection Squad will up their security around Prime Minister Helen Clark when she attends the Pacific Forum in Fiji, following rumblings of a possible coup there.

The teacher at the centre of a row over Muslim women using veils has lost her claim that she was discriminated against.

A look at the queue for State Housing in New Zealand, and one family in particular. Ofa Sosefo (Housing New Zealand Tenant); Dr Michael Baker (Wellington School of Medicine); Graham Bodman (Housing New Zealand).