A caravan bought for £20 standing on a patch of waste ground can seem like heaven after a year in the Sherrif Street flats. That was the McCann family's verdict when they moved to the corner of Hadddington and Norththumberland Roads in January this year..

DUBLIN City and County Councils are spending a total of £25 million in a mammmoth plan to save the Liffey. The Government granted much of the money after the Water Pollution Act of 1977 gave local authorities power to carry out mecessary improvements in their own areas. The plan invollves a new drainage and treatmet works, a new sewerage tunnel, pumping station, and ancillary works. All this will come into operation in the early eighties.