• Two separate stories in this issue highlight concerns about major employers transferring work abroad. Documents discovered by clerical workers at Ford show the company is running down production of its Capri car at Halewood and focusing on production in Germany (pages 6 and 7). Meanwhile, Dunlop has been shedding jobs at its Speke factory (which is now one-third empty). The company denies planning to concentrate production in the Far East where labour is cheaper, but the unions are sceptical about its denial (page 4).

• Pirate broadcasters with portable transmitters are playing a cat-and-mouse game with officials trying to seize their equipment. The Free Press talks to "Bob" and "Dave", the men behind Radio Free Liverpool (pages 1 and 9).

• Purle Waste Disposal has been fined £500 after being caught sneakily dumping sewage and chemical waste including propylene dichloride into a stream in the Cheshire countryside (page 5).

• Charles Wakstein, a lecturer in the mechanical engineering department at Liverpool University, has been sacked in mysterious circumstances. The university is unwilling to tell Dr Wakstein or anyone else exactly why he has been dismissed (page 4).

• Several landlords renting accommodation to students are using a loophole in the law to prevent the tenants having fair rents set by rent tribunals. Legally, the students are not tenants because the landlords insist on a contract signed by parents which only grants the students "use" of the property (page 4).

• Jimmy Rogers, who accused the police of planting drugs on him, has received a letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions saying there is not enough evidence to justify criminal proceedings against the officer concerned (page 4). The letter is almost identical to the one received earlier by Lennie Cruickshank who had made a similar complaint (issue 7, page 10).

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