• Liverpool's Lord Mayor, Alderman Robert Meadows, is in a tussle with the council over compensation for a partially-completed building owned by his firm, which is to be demolished under a redevelopment plan (page 1).

• Trade unions are alarmed as 24 building workers are charged with conspiracy after picketing during a strike (page 1).

• A Nigerian man with a wife and son in Toxteth is not being allowed back into Britain after travelling to Nigeria to visit his sick father (page 1).

• Tesco is fighting a legal battle to avoid installing disabled facilities in a cinema it is constructing above a new supermarket (page 3).

• The new official camp site for gypsies/travellers will have less than half the space needed (page 4).

• Council tenants organise against rent rises (page 4).

• Civic Centre project likely to be abandoned (page 5).

• Campaign against sewage dumping in Liverpool Bay gains momentum (page 4).

• Women's liberation group opposes plans to abolish family allowances (page 6).

• Planning department report considers the possibility of free public transport (page 6).

• Occupants of five "deplorable" slum houses owned by former Lord Mayor Charles Cowlin are to be rehoused. The council bought the properties for demolition because they are on the route of the proposed inner city motorway (page 10).

• Long interviews with two trade unionist about the failure of a sit-in at Lucas (pages 6 and 7).

• Background on disputes at Ford's car factories (page 8).

• Despite a nationwide "dole by post" scheme, Giro cheques are not being sent to unemployed people in deprived areas because of fears that the cheques might "go astray" (page 10).

• The Mersey Magnet, a freesheet owned by the Post & Echo, has been filling up space with fictitious lonely hearts adverts (page 10).

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