• Copies of this issue were seized by Women's Liberation activists objecting to an advertisement for an anti-abortion rally. The copies were later returned with the advertisement (on page 4) obliterated. More details here. This issue also reports that Lynwood Nursing Home, the privately-run clinic with excessive charges for abortions (see issue 6) has been bought by a charitable trust (page 3).

• The government has ordered Liverpool hospitals to reduce the number of beds because the city has more of them than the national average. It also has sickness rates above the national average (pages 1, 6 and 7).

• The Dingle area of Liverpool has been chosen by a group of local authorities to become the sewage capital of the North-West (pages 1 and 2).

• The City Council's support for Liverpool airport looks like money down the drain (page 6).

• The new Equal Pay Act has loopholes that could prevent women from earning as much as men (page 4).

• A Kirkby family has a recording of a police officer saying he hit a 14-year-old boy (pages 6 and 7).

• A loss-making property firm has bought the Fisher Bendix factory (page 10).

• Latest on the Realmdeal saga (page 5).

• New series: the "wit and wisdom" of George Cregeen, editor of the Echo (page 2).

• The seventh (and last) extract from The Little Red Schoolbook questions the value of exams and marking. Marks, it suggests, can tell you more about the teacher than the student (page 8).

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