• Page 1: Council leaders have denounced the Free Press story (issue 2) about the City Planning Department's warning of a housing shortage, describing it as "vicious", "unwarranted" and "abhorrent". They appear more concerned about the leaking of the planners' report than its alarming contents. Meanwhile, in a crackdown on leaks, the Town Clerk summoned all Planning Department staff for a lecture about "loyalty".

• This issue has a further leak: that the cost of the new Civic Centre project has risen from £10 million to £17 million and — again — councillors have not been informed (pages 1, 6 and 7).

The Free Press campaigned against the Civic Centre and in the end it was never built. The plan was to gather all council departments into a single massive building, though the need for it was never clearly established. Some argued it would be better to decentralise with more neighbourood offices.

As costs rose, councillors pressed ahead with the project, but the Planning Department turned against it, warning that it would not support the council's plans if there was a public inquiry.

• On page 6, the two founders of the Musicians' Liberation Front write about their efforts to get a better deal for musicians: "The image of the new pot-smoking straightforward manager is quite erroneous, he is just as lacking in scruples as his cigar-smoking predecessor."

• Free Press reporting on environmental issues focused mainly on the dumping of sewage and chemicals into Liverpool Bay and further out in the Irish Sea. A story on page 6 describes the activities of two companies whose ships dump several hundred tons of chemical waste every week.

• Following repeated allegations of police planting drugs on black men, there's news that officers' desks and drawers are now being subjected to spot checks for illicit substances (page 3).

• The third extract from The Little Red Schoolbook is on page 8. This one has advice for pupils wishing to complain about a teacher.

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