• This issue has a major investigation into behind-the-scenes property deals involving the former Fisher Bendix factory in which Ivor Gershfield, a Swiss-based financier made £1 million profit (pages 6 and 7).

• Police refuse protection for black family threatened by white youths (page 1).

• Discharges from sulphuric acid factory cause concern in St Helens (page 4).

• Questions about a £457,000 loan from the council to Venture Housing Association which has several councillors on its committee (pages 1 and 10)..

• A bizarre brochure from Liverpool's public relations department encourages people to move to the city with promises of "first class" education for children and detached houses "at prices you can afford". It quotes one family as saying they now have space for two cars after moving from London (page 5).

• A loans firm based in Liverpool, Excalibur Broking Group, is charging people to work for it (page 2) .

• On page 8, the Free Press mocks the Echo's habit of treating fires that cause minimal damage and no casualties as newsworthy. One issue of the Echo had eight separate reports, including an armchair, bedding and a light fitting that caught fire..

• There are follow-ups to several stories reported in previous issues about landlord and Liberal councillor Michael Hefferon (issue 14), the council's purchase of Alderman Meadows' uncompleted property (issue 12), fire safety in Lewis's store (issue14) and Jimmy Rogers who had accused police of planting drugs on him (issues 1 and 4)..

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