Readers thought we must have found the secret of eternal life last week.

We said in the Comment column on Tuesday last week that babies born the previous day had "a good chance of seeing in the next millennium".

It should, of course, have said the next century.

Thanks for pointing out the error to Mrs R J Appleton and Steve Cook, of Brighton, Jason Smith, of Worthing, Mrs C Luke, of Hurstpierpoint, emailer Maureen Francis and 15-year-old Sarah Johnson, a pupil at St Mary's Hall, Kemp Town.

The error was also spotted by Johnny Muxlow, of Hove, who adds that he saw a reference to "Tomorrow's BAGS" in the greyhound card for Hove stadium that same day. "Baffling," he says. Well, not quite.

BAGS actually stands for Bookmakers Afternoon Greyhound Service - meetings which began in 1967 and at Hove in about 1983 and are something of a lifeblood for many tracks.

In a story about the Take-A-Break Club in Mile Oak appealing for volunteers, published on December 15, we printed the wrong telephone number. The correct number is 01273 381579. Thanks and apologies to club chairman Mr G Hampton.

Brighton and Hove's successful bid for city status failed on grammatical grounds, according to Francesca Barr, of Hove, who says we wrongly use the construction "Brighton and Hove is..." instead of "...are..." because they are two places.

Yes they are, Francesca. However, they are no longer separate towns but part of one city and therefore have to be referred to in the singular. Incidentally, we only brought in this change to our house style after the granting of city status.

While on the subject, I must apologise to Roy Banks, the Place To Be Face of 1937, who was accidentally missed out when we published the 100 faces in our AM edition on December 19. Sorry, Roy.

Mr E Scothern, of Brighton, was "appalled" at what he perceived as our criticism of police with the headline "party poopers" above our main front page story last Wednesday telling how they stopped an illegal rave event just moments before the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.

He says: "Will it now be editorial policy to condone illegalities in general or only those The Argus approves of?"

I take the point, Mr Scothern, but the partygoers whose champagne had to put on ice were unhappy, as the story made clear and the following day our Voice Of The Argus column called for both the police and rave organisers to get together to find a workable way of allowing raves to happen safely since they are clearly not going to stop happening.

There were NO fireworks at the New Year's Eve party at the Old Steine in Brighton contrary to our report of the event in some earlier editions last Tuesday, as pointed out by Caroline Siam, of Hove. The leftover fireworks will now be used at the Brighton Festival later this year.

In last Friday's paper, the story about Crowborough Town Council office staff Sylvia Jones, Gill Simmonds and Sue Emsley quitting said they had walked out when in fact they are serving their notice. Apologies to all three, especially Sue whose surname was also spelt incorrectly.

Finally, thanks to the reader who rang in to say we incorrectly referred to a registry office in our report of December 30 about wartime sweethearts Arthur and Frances Baldock's 60 years of marriage. Registry offices exist only in Scotland while in England they are, of course, called register offices.