• This issue takes a critical look at reporting on "scroungers" by the mainstream press (pages 1, 6 and 7).

• Page 2 has a report on police activities investigating the Free Press for possible contempt of court.

• There's a spate of senior police officers retiring or moving on. They include the superintendent in charge of the Task Force ("the jeep-borne heavies who made it unsafe to walk the streets at night") and two officers involved with club and pub licensing (page 5).

• The Free Press has received a reply to a letter it sent to the General Pinochet, the Chilean dictator. The paper had asked what the regime was going to do about Gladys Diaz, a prominent journalist who had been detained without charge for almost two years. Similar letters had been ignored in the past but on this occasion the regime replied saying she would be allowed to leave the country (page 8).

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