Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.

A long-married husband leaves his family for a barmaid.

A man fights council plans to demolish his home to make way for a new bypass.

An amateur operatic society is preparing a Gilbert and Sullivan production, and someone new is needed for the role of Jack Point - but who will break this to the veteran who's always done it?

A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.