• The House of Commons Privileges Committee has met and it refused to even consider the complaint from Eric Ogden MP against the Free Press (page 5). In effect, he had been asking the committee to decide whether the article was defamatory or not, and they advised that in future MPs who thought they had been libelled should sue through the courts instead of bothering the committee.

• All 14 defendants accused of conspiring to seduce troops from their allegiance to the Queen (issues 17 and 18) have been acquitted after an eleven-week trial (page 8).

• A woman teacher at a Catholic comprehensive school in Kirkby has been told she cannot become head of the English department. The school's governors blocked her promotion because of an "incident" with another teacher which "offended against Catholic principles". Her offence was marrying another teacher when she had previously been married and divorced (page 1).

• Magistrates fined a man £15 because his three daughters were not attending school. He had been sending them to school every day but the school turned them away because they were not wearing uniforms – which their father said he could not afford to buy (page 3).

• A small item on page 2 announces the establishment of Liberty Hall, a club "for people who are interested in politics but don't wish to belong to a political party". It will be held on Sunday evenings for talks, discussions, music and films.

• Higher fares and reduced services: what's going wrong with the buses? (page 9).

• Government cash helps bakery break strike (page 12).

• The third and final article in Andy Wiggans' political history of football is on pages 6 and 7.

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