Our front page report that the Ocean Hotel in Saltdean will not, after all, be used to house asylum-seekers angered Stuart Tuck.

He explains: "As a concerned citizen who helped with the Saltdean for Tolerance and Respect campaign, which aimed to foster a welcoming spirit for people fleeing persecution and war, I am dismayed you only gave prominence to the anti campaign, which admittedly was vociferous and angry.

"Don't you owe it to your readers to represent all shades of opinion, not just the loudest and those on the vote trail?"

Perhaps, Mr Tuck, but those who backed the asylum-seekers had had plenty of space in the paper before this final decision, our report of which quoted those directly affected by it - namely the residents, the local MP and councillors and the hotel management.

I notice you live in Brighton, not Saltdean.

D Cook, from Portslade, disliked our report on April 3 of Education Secretary Charles Clarke's opening of a new extension at Portslade Infant School.

It stated how Mr Clarke was barracked by anti-war protesters and was accompanied by a picture showing this, rather than the official opening ceremony.

D Cook says the opening was surely "that rare commodity of good news" but we chose to focus on the protest.

"I have no argument with the protesters but surely six people waving a couple of placards was NOT the bigger story here?" he or she says.

"Was this an attempt to inject a little controversy into the occasion?"

No it wasn't. The majority of the story was actually about the opening, not the protest, while the picture was an excellent news picture and more interesting than a boring old one of a ribbon being cut.

Besides, had we ignored the protest I am sure those involved in it would, quite rightly, have complained.

Patricia Ginman, developments and publicity manager of the Keep Sussex Skating Association, was upset by our report last Friday of a 7,000-signature petition being handed to Brighton and Hove Mayor David Watkins by Councillor David Smith at a meeting of the city council.

The report failed to mention either that the signatures had been collected by the association or that the handover happened on April 3. Sorry.

Our report on Thursday last week about the planned growth of Burgess Hill market said it was hoped to moved it to the town's Martlets shopping precinct.

Unfortunately, the accompanying picture was not of the precinct but the Market Place shopping centre.

As a resident of the town and user of both the above, I naturally know this but, sadly, I was on holiday last week!

Tony Booker asks why there was no report of Albion's superb victory over Reading in The Argus on Monday April 7. "I felt deprived," he says.

The answer is simple - the match was played the previous Friday night, instead of the usual Saturday afternoon, and so a full report and pictures appeared in The Argus the next day as well as the Sports Argus as usual.

And finally, my thanks to Gabrielle Vincent, from Brighton, who laughed at the headline on a story on March 9 which said "West Pier dealt bitter blow by Nobble group". Yes, Nobble instead of Noble, which it should have said.

She asks: "I found it very amusing. Was this a misprint or deliberate?" Of course it was the former although I get your drift, Gabrielle.