Our story revealing that TV presenter Nick Ross had been paid £5,000 to help launch the Anti Victimisation Initiative caused considerable comment.

Some of those involved didn't like the tack the story took and others questioned our ethics.

Yes, I admit the headline in the am edition, "Nick's £5,000 fee is a crime", was wrong and unfair and it was changed for later editions.

However, this paper's record in properly reporting racist, gay and domestic violence is second to none.

It cannot, though, be allowed to stop us reporting people questioning the use of public money to pay television stars to support an admittedly worthy venture. We wish the AVI good luck, nevertheless.

Joan Stanley was angered by our story on the same day about the fact that sheep culled as part of the control of foot-and-mouth were being buried at a landfill site near Warnham and could also go to a site near Small Dole.

She says: "The paragraph starting 'Prosperous Sussex . . .' shows your reporters have absolutely no awareness of the plight of the local farming community.

The plague is not just a source of copy for the media. It is destroying people's lives, eliminating bloodlines and could change the face of the land in this country. I expect more informed articles by a local paper which should present the voice of its community." Seems you have done it for us, Joan.

Mrs Pickles, of Hove, complained in a letter published two Fridays ago that she had been waiting a year for an electric wheelchair for outdoor use, despite having undergone a test and, as she put it, "lost count of the number of people who have come and gone".

I have now heard from Ann Dyson, manager of the Sussex Rehabilitation Centre based at Brighton General Hospital in Elm Grove, who confirms that her staff have been talking to Mrs Pickles for "some time" but access to her home is difficult, although they are still "open to discussions".

"I would like to stress," she adds, "that many people do have these wheelchairs for indoor and indoor use and currently 123 of our patients are using them.

"They are one of a range of aids available to help people with a disability and we do out best to ensure that patients get the equipment they need." Let's hope Mrs Pickles will soon be one of them.

Apologies to readers of our special supplement of pictures recording the visit of the Queen to Brighton and Hove. In two of the picture captions we refer to St Patrick's Trust in Brighthelm Church in Brighton when, of course, it is based at St Patrick's Church in Cambridge Road, Hove. Sorry, too, to the trust.

In a story on Wednesday, March 28, about candidates due to fight the Brighton Kemp Town seat at the General Election, we omitted the name of the Green Party's candidate, Hugh Miller.

A story in last Saturday's paper said a talent agency called Cyber 2000 was looking for four muscular men to appear in an orgy scene for a film being shot in Brighton called Mirror Image.

Cyber 2000 managing director Marc Wise has pointed out the men are required to play bodyguards and slaves to Cleopatra in a fantasy scene and no orgy takes place. He wants to make it clear Mirror Image is not a pornographic film.

Finally, Mr C R Mills, of Portslade, said he was disappointed not to find an Argus report of the swimathon in aid of cancer relief which he witnessed at the Prince Regent Centre in Brighton.

His grandson, Scott Walker, took part together with his Brighton Swimming Club colleague Shaun Challis and Ian Horner, of Brighton Dolphins, and more than 40 others.

"It was a great evening and I am my family were very proud of everyone who took part," says Mr Mills, but adds: "I was astonished by the lack of publicity and not a sign of the media or a photographer."

Me too, Mr Mills, because our award-winning chief photographer Simon Dack is an enthusiastic member of the Dolphins but he tells me he hadn't been told about this event so obviously we couldn't be there. Perhaps this mention will serve as belated congratulations to all involved.