Punter Derrick Frost says he enjoys The Argus and is an avid reader of our racing pages but is sometimes "driven up the wall" by unnecessary mistakes.

Such as the time (on January 6 but he "forgot to write until now") when we published the runners and riders for Lingfield races but the selections didn't match up.

"How do your staff allow this to happen?" asks Derrick, of Pulborough. "On many occasions, the selections are so muddled it really is hard to believe what they get up to."

Mind you, he continues: "I cannot complain too much as there are times when you get it right and I win (not always, though; wish it was)."

He helpfully includes a copy of a betting slip for a 44p outlay that won him £1,177.24p. That's a lot of compensation for our errors, Derrick, but we will try harder in future.

John Gillett, of Littlehampton, was bemused by our Did You Know? item last Saturday stating that some wetland rabbits had evolved flat feet in order to move more easily.

He asks: "Could we be told how these rabbits have achieved this? Then some of us could evolve wings to move around more easily!"

Don't mock, John, for the item was absolutely true - courtesy of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Arundel, which knows about these things!

Apologies to The Albion pub in Church Road, Hove, which we stated in last Friday's If It's On... served steak, chips and mushy peas (it doesn't) and offered food in the evening (in fact, it's only during the day) and roast dinners on Sundays (it doesn't). Can we come back in now please, landlord?

In later editions that same day our story about the Government's decision to reject a merger of Balfour Infants and Junior Schools in Brighton attributed a quote from the governors of the junior school to the governors of both schools. Sorry and many thanks to the junior school governors' chairman Stan Hooper.

Monday's evening edition story about the jailing of nightclub killer Shane Manville wrongly attributed quotes about his victim, Anthony Evans, to court witness Eleni Kasparis. In fact, this evidence was given by another witness. We apologise for the mix-up.

Thanks to Jim Robson, who spotted our story on Saturday about the theft of a disabled woman's C-reg Ford Escort in Hove incorrectly said it had a rear mudguard missing.

"On a 1985 Ford Escort?" he exclaims. "If you had said a 1955 Ford Popular I might have understood. Rear mudguards are usually seen on pushbikes or motorbikes. Perhaps you meant a rear mudflap or bumper? Newer cars have rear wings, not mudguards." Many thanks, Jim.

Still with cars, we managed to spell Portslade Mercedes dealers Rivervale as Riverdale in Wednesday's Extra when we printed a picture of the firm's handover of 12 people carriers to the new Rendezvous Casino at Brighton Marina. Our apologies.

Finally, Renton Reeves says PC Guy Etherton must be older than he looked in our picture of him on Monday when we reported he had made 22 arrests from his bike. Why? Because the story referred to Sainsbury's in St James's Street, Brighton.

"It should have read Safeway," says Renton helpfully, adding: "I should also mention The Argus has a habit of saying North Road when it means North Street." Many thanks, Renton, and I can confirm PC Etherton is indeed just 25 as the story said.