The 1986 Downing Street papers showed that Willetts returned to the fray the following year.
The Panama Papers showed that the Aliyevs and their accomplices controlled assets worth $490m via offshore accounts.
Travel papers showed that Muriel and her husband had travelled from Belgium to Iraq overland by car from Turkey.
The Panama Papers showed that people invest in housing, then sequester the profit in shell companies, avoiding Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
It said papers showed that on 17 July 1974, a test exposed Tahiti to 500 times the maximum allowed level of plutonium fallout.
Court papers showed that he continued to draw a salary from the firm even after he stopped working there in 1999.
Court papers showed that the McCourts took $108 million in personal distributions from the team between 2004 and 2009, almost half for personal mortgages and real estate.
The Ministry of Defence was forced on the defensive too, after the papers showed that two of Gaddafi's sons were invited to visit the SAS headquarters in July 2006.
Ángel Gurría, the secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, said the release of the Panama Papers showed that there was no room for complacency in the international effort to crack down on tax evasion.
Priestley wondered: "Had we exiled Lancashire and the north-east coast?" A year or so ago newly released government papers showed that simply cutting Liverpool off – to sink or swim – had indeed been suggested in the 1980s.
The papers showed that Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, a member of the panel, met with three dozen energy industry representatives but with no consumer or conservation groups in preparing the national energy strategy last year.
