• This issue of the Free Press is the only one that hasn't faded over time. It's on unusually high-quality paper and was printed by workers occupying the Briant Colour Printing plant in London. The company unexpectedly announced it was going into liquidation but the workforce refused to accept it. They locked out the management and continued working inside.

• The main news in this issue is that Liverpool council spent £2,000 on a model of the proposed Civic Centre but decided not to put it on display — for fear of the public's reaction. The Free Press found out where the model was stored and sneaked in to photograph it (pages 1 and 12)

• This issue also looks at the vast amount of office space (existing and yet to be built) and how Liverpool council is helping speculators to find tenants for them (pages 6 and 7)

Other items…

• The authorities have confiscated more transmission equipment belonging to Merseyside's pirate radio broadcasters (page 12)

• Criticism of the Army's effort to recruit unemployed teenagers after a Kirkby youngster becomes the hundredth British soldier to be killed in Northern Ireland (page 3)

• Council tenants continue struggle against rent rises as Labour party caves in (pages 1 and 4)

• Derek Humphry, author of the book "Police Power and Black People", says lawyers have "knocked the guts out" a chapter about alleged drug-planting by officers in Liverpool (page 6)

• Life inside Walton jail: interview with a former prisoner (page 9)

• The authorities have confiscated more transmission equipment belonging to Merseyside's pirate radio broadcasters (page 12)

• The council has agreed to pay the Post & Echo £730,000 for its old building (page 10). See previous story in issue 4.