Wedding plans are interrupted by a death in the family.
RF Dildefield's Diana, next on ABC.
Next on Minder.
Arthur's off to the races and Terry's left holding the dog.
The dog? Muggle's a dog?
It's got four legs, a tail and it barks. It's a dog.
Later Arthur gets cornered and Terry gets physical.
Back your stone, alright?
And Sergeant Chisholm and Rycott clash head on following the same lead.
Why are you going here?
Mr Chisholm, Mr Rycott. Do you need a witness?
Minder, 8.30 Monday on ABC.
Scores of rebel dairy farmers were dragged from a roadway in Shepperton today
and two were arrested as they tried to blockade Melbourne's milk supplies.
Tanker drivers are crossing picket lines under heavy police protection
so milk is getting through, but the farmers who are demanding higher prices
for locally produced milk say they will not give in.
Tonight the farmers plan to blockade the milk factories with concrete and equipment.
A spokesman for the dairy farmers says they'll even cut electricity
and water supplies to the plants if necessary.
The Nuclear Disarmament Party has been left in tatters following a major split
during the party's inaugural national conference.
First Australian Senator-elect Jo Valentine and four former Senate candidates
walked out of the conference yesterday and told a Melbourne news conference
this afternoon they no longer represented the Nuclear Disarmament Party.
Ms Valentine now describes herself as the Senator for Nuclear Disarmament.
She says it is too early to say if another party will be formed,
but she says the Nuclear Disarmament Movement will be regrouping.
From tomorrow screening tests to detect the AIDS virus will be available
in Victoria and New South Wales.
In Victoria all blood used in hospitals will be tested for AIDS
and State Health Minister Mr White says the introduction of the test
should allay the fears of people who have blood transfusions
or regular treatment with blood products such as haemophiliacs.
The test will involve taking a blood sample for analysis
and will be available free of charge.
Boxing and Commonwealth lightweight champion Barry Michael has accepted a challenge
to fight the world junior lightweight champion Lester Ellis.
Ellis extended the challenge on Friday night after retaining his
International Boxing Federation title in Melbourne by knocking out
Filipino Rod Sequinon.
The two parties will meet tomorrow to discuss details.
And the weather, it will be fine, warm and mainly sunny throughout Victoria tomorrow.
Melbourne's temperature range 11 to 26 degrees.
The National with Australia's leading news analysts. Richard Koppel with the people who make the news.
Max Walsh analyzing the issues behind the news.
Barry Cassidy reporting the day's political events in Canberra.
And Robert Gottliebsen analyzing financial events and the power brokers behind them.
630 weekdays, weekends at 7. The National.
Next on Rumpel, the respectable couple accused of running a house of ill repute.
We don't like it being called a house of ill repute, Mr. Rumpel.
That isn't nice. We call it a friendly house.
Defense is threatened by the code of the old boy net.
One does not sneak. It's against McCurrn.
And will Rumpel finally be elevated to the head of chambers?
To our new head of chambers.
Leo McCurrn is Rumpel after The National, 7.30 Tuesday on ABC.
The book Diana by I.F. Delderfield is currently available at the ABC shop and all good bookstores.
The last survivors of a vast and ancient Stone Age culture.
Testament to the Bushmen. Next on ABC.
On Tuesday night, a news and information special.
As Four Corners goes to air, the Treasurer will be giving Parliament the final details of his billion dollar bid to balance the nation's books.
Four Corners and The National are combining resources for a comprehensive coverage of the mini budget.
We'll bring you a full analysis and Treasurer Keating, fresh from the floor of the house, will debate with his opposite number, John Howard.
And while we're waiting for the Treasurer, we've a revealing report on the clothing industry.
Australian women spend a small fortune on high fashion, but don't be fooled by the gloss.
From boutiques to discount houses, the rag trade is cutting its cloths with bargain basement labor.
If you were to make a cheddar for 50 cents, he'd turn around and say, look, I've got Vietnamese people doing it for 35 cents.
That's Rags Without Riches and the mini budget special, Tuesday night.
Hello again from Edwin Maher.
And it's now feared the death toll from the fire which destroyed a grandstand at a football ground in northern England yesterday could go as high as 50.
At least 41 people are known to have died and 150 were injured in the blaze at the Bradford Club ground.
The fire started just before halftime.
At first, fans in the stand thought more smoke bombs were being detonated, part of the carnival atmosphere surrounding the league champions last match.
But within a few minutes, the 70 year old wooden grandstand was ablaze from end to end.
People were trapped between the burning roof and the burning floor.
The victory party had become a major football disaster.
Vehicles parked outside the ground were burned out.
Many who tried to escape at the back of the stand were trapped.
They couldn't get down through the flames to the pitch and they couldn't get to the street because, as the club chairman admitted, the gates and turnstiles were locked.
A Washington report says a secret American operation set up to make strikes against extremists was disbanded earlier this year
after an unauthorised car bombing killed 80 people in Beirut.
The Washington Post quotes informed sources as saying that President Reagan had approved the covert action last year,
directing the CIA to train and support counter-intelligence units.
The paper said the Reagan administration quickly cancelled the operation after a Lebanese hit squad detonated a car bomb
outside the home of a militant Shiite without authorisation from the CIA.
The Consumer Affairs Department is investigating reports of an imported whiskey-based lolly available to children at milk bars.
The whiskey liqueur sweet is recommended for people with colds.
Although there are many sweets on the market with alcoholic content,
the department is concerned that these particular lollies may have an alcohol content of 2%.
Finally, a brief look at the weather and for Victoria, mainly fine, Melbourne heading for a top temperature of 22 degrees.
The National, news reported by Australians with the facts Australia needs to know.
In Washington, Richard Paltrowman.
Peter Kouchman in Asia.
Peter George in the troubled-torn Middle East.
Reporting events and current trends throughout Europe, Mark Colvin.
Jeff Sims in London.
Ian Cross covering the United Kingdom.
And in New York, Paul Lockyer.
Weekdays at 6.30, weekends at 7.00. The National.
There are about 300 million families in China, and each of them, because of the population explosion, is rationed to one child.
So it has to be a boy first time.
What happens when the coin comes down tails, and the one child that the state allows them turns out to be a girl?
The pressures for population control.
Extraordinary insight into China today in the Heart of the Dragon, 7.30 Thursday on ABC.