Partwork/today's splash/cocaine

We have completed the design of our 48-page partwork "North Wales from the Air" which will be published section by section in the Daily Post next week. I think it looks superb and I hope you will agree. Thanks to deputy night editor Wendy Jones for putting it together.
Our short video publicizing the supplement has received thousands of hits already so it appears that there will be a lot of interest in next week's editions. Just a reminder too that there is a token collect for a free print (a glorious view over the Menai Straits all the way up to the Great Orme). And all the pictures in the supplement will be available for purchase.
A story from North Wales with national significance dominates our front page today. It is quite ridiculous that the Home Office should instruct North Wales police to let suspected illegal immigrants they arrest go off on their own with a map showing them how to get to an asylum centre in Liverpool.
The comments about this issue by Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, in the Commons yesterday, were feeble and get a well deserved thumping in our leader column today. I hope (and expect) that the national papers will follow up this story over the next few days.
We are currently working on a story about cocaine use in North Wales which we plan to publish in the next few days. A misleading and far from complete version of the story has already appeared on the chief constable's website after we approached his press office for comment.
Feel free to read this then read the correct version in the paper. We will raise some very important questions about the extent to which the use of this class A drug is growing in our society. We have some interesting information about how cocaine is creating a little known but deadly health risk, especially for young men. I hope that our investigation will raise the profile of this important issue. But if it makes just one person think twice about consuming cocaine, then it will have been worthwhile.