Location, location, location. It is not just an obsession with estate agents. Newspapers always want to know where people live, too.

That way we know whether a story is for us or a lead for the Bolsover Bugle.

So it's a natural progression to claim as our own those newsy people with a link to Sussex.

In Weekend we described writer Keith Waterhouse, who lived here for several years, as an ex-Brightonian.

Ridiculous, wrote R F Osborne, from Brighton. A Brightonian, he said, is a person who is born and bred in Brighton, which rules out Waterhouse, Lord Bassam and, indeed, most of the people now running The Argus.

"You would not describe a person as a Cockney simply because they moved to within the sound of Bow Bells."

As a Moonraker myself (born in Wiltshire), I think you may have a point there.

Next, trouble with verbs. Peter Bailey, from Brighton, told me he was surprised a sub-editor on the Argus could confuse to lay and to lie.

In a headline we said vehicles could lay idle in depots.

Over to you, Peter. "To lay is a transitive verb in which the action passes to an object while to lie is intransitive. Therefore a vehicle could lay tarmac but not idle."

Peter didn't pull his punches. "This confusion is frequently encountered among those who have only a rudimentary grip on their own language." Ouch!

Thanks also to Graham Chainey, from Brighton, for pulling us up on that headline. And sorry we spelt your name wrong at the foot of your letter on the Opinion page in the same issue.

It was a dream come true for many Albion fans when the club went up to the second division at the end of their championship season.

Some might have thought it was just a dream when they saw our match form guide in Monday's paper.

We had the Seagulls at home to Blackpool in Division Three.

Not a nightmare. In our joy at the Seagulls' success we forgot to amend the page grid after the last campaign. We've got it straight now and Albion are in their rightful place but thanks to J Blackmore, from Crawley, and everyone else who phoned in.

We had Lord Bassam as a Government minister in our piece last Friday in which he put the case for a directly-elected mayor for Brighton and Hove.

Norman Davis, from Woodingdean, challenged this since Lord B was shunted out of the Home Office and is now in the Lords whips' office. But, I am assured, as he has a Government post he can still be referred to as a minister.

I might have known it. Last week I acknowledged we could not spell illiteracy - graciously, said Malcolm Blunt, from Brighton, but he pointed out on the next page we referred to a youngster who hit someone with a bottle as having "short died blond hair."

With all the talk of computer spell-checkers, he thinks the point is being missed. "Journalists of 40 years ago had no need of spelling checks, computerised or human."

However, he said, it may be some consolation that three of our national broadsheet newspapers did not have "the faintest idea where an apostrophe goes".

And he left me with this cheering thought: "Even those who can spell continue to read The Argus with a lot of interest despite any misspelling."