• The Speaker of the House of Commons has ruled that the Free Press article about Eric Ogden MP (issue 21,page 9) is a possible breach of parliamentary privilege -- which means it will now be considered by the Privileges Committee.

Meanwhile, the Free Press has received a letter from the clerk of the committee enclosing a booklet about breaches of parliamentary privilege. It says the committee has never accepted "truth" or "fair comment" as a defence in privilege cases, though "fair comment" can be raised "by way of mitigation of the offence" (page 2).

• Gas central heating systems in Liverpool's council houses and flats are not being repaired and maintained properly. The contract for most of this work was awarded to a small company called Castle Metal Products whose owner is a former business partner of council leader Bill Smyth (pages 1 and 12).

• George Leatherbarrow, the builder at the centre of the Kirkby corruption affair, has been told to stop work on 124 council homes that his firm has been building in Whiston. "Irregularities" have been found in the contract that Leatherbarrow negotiated with disgraced council architect Eric Spencer Stevenson (page 12).

• Part two of Andy Wiggans'political history of football is on pages 6 and 7.

• A reply to last month's article about use of the Lump in the construction industry is on page 4.

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