Top Stories for Thursday 21 February 2019

Govt rejects suggestions its bound by former Nat's Huawei deal; Three UK converative MPs cross the floor; Last 250 Tasman fire evacuees about to hear if they can go home; Te Matatini kicks off with Te Reanga Morehu o Ratana; The country will finally get to see what the Government's Tax Working Group has come up with later this morning; NZer Troy Skinner faces life in US prison on kidnapping charge.