• Seven witnesses describe how an arrested man was beaten by police outside a pub in Kirkby. The man, John Lannon, later spent six days in hospital with a punctured lung, a broken rib, facial injuries, severe bruising and abrasions (pages 1 and 10).

• Prominent Liverpool councillors have welcomed news of a proposed £50 million "trade centre" development scheme. The Post & Echo has also hailed it as "imaginative". When conacted by the Free Press, the man behind the scheme, Gerald Zisman, claims to have worked on ",amy major projects" but declines to name any of them. His business headquarters is a semi-detached house in Kingston, Surrey. (pages 6 and 7).

• A blow-out at the Synthetic Resin plant in Speke spews chemicals on 110 cars parked nearby, causing them to change colour and need a re-spray (page 8).

• Update on rent rises for council tenants (page 2).

• Test bores on the Kirkby ski slope have found it contains wood, bricks, colliery waste, sand and ashes – confirming earlier reports (issues 16 and 17) that it is a pile of rubbish (page 5). It has also emerged that a second prominent councillor, Bill Marshall, had a home extension built by George Leatherbarrow. Marshall says he paid for the extension – in cash (page 1).

• Photos show the arrest of nine protesters outside an Army recruiting office. All were later cleared of obstruction charges (page 6).

• Industrial tribunal decides Marks & Spencer's sacking of Jimmy McGovern (issue 19) was fair but says the firm was wrong not to allow him to state his case or be accompanied by a union representative (page 10).

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