Our report of the Battle of Britain church service held at St Martin's Church, Brighton, was enjoyed by Flt Lt Peter Norton.

The CO of the 226 (Brighton) Squadron, Air Training Corps says: "In a week in which the Prime Minister was slated for not attending a service, it was good to see that those attending in Brighton were mentioned and a pleasure to see a full church with many veterans from all services present as, in the past, this service has suffered from poor attendance."

Peter was slightly bemused, however, to find the comments of his colleague from 176 (Hove) Squadron, Flt Lt David Firth, put in his mouth and surprised to find reference to the Venture Scouts when we should have said Air Cadets.

"With no disrespect to the Scout movement, there is no connection between it and the Royal Air Force and they would not have been expected to attend," says Peter.

Some readers will remember my item a couple of weeks ago about whether a priest deprived of his position is defrocked or unfrocked.

David Greig, from Goring, writes to tell me that both are acceptable according to an English teacher friend of his who read the column and checked as far back as his books went.

David himself checked the Encyclopaedia Britannica which states defrock first appeared in 1581, followed by unfrock in 1644.

"You could have fooled me," says David, "as until now I was under the impression that unfrock only was correct." Anyone know better?

Our advertorial on St Leonards-Mayfield School in last Tuesday's Independent Schools supplement caused major embarrassment to new head Julia Dalton, whose picture was not used and instead one of a pupil was. Not only that, but we identified the pupil as Claudia Guitto when in fact it was Beatriz Damm, and she is 14, not 13, as we stated. Our humblest apologies to all, especially Mrs Dalton, for whom we are somewhere near the bottom of the class.

The caption under the picture of Lou Hanekom receiving the Brighton and Hove Club Darts League Ladies Summer Cup Trophy in Monday's paper stated that Ron Bransden is chairman of the RAFA Club, when he is in fact chairman of the Hove Royal British Legion Club, where the cup final was held. Thanks to league assistant secretary Tony Gunn for pointing this out.

Christine Emrys-Jones, who was pictured filling a car with petrol in last Wednesday's paper during the fuel "panic", points out that she was not panicking at all, as the accompanying caption might have suggested, but merely filling up her boss's car.

And finally, an old chestnut from Mark Britton, of Brighton, who asks why does Hove and Portslade MP Ivor Caplin's face appear in the Argus so much.

"I was astonished to find it twice in one issue," he moans. "We know what he looks like - similar to Oscar Levant but, alas, without the pianist's great wit."

Maybe not, Mr B, but perhaps Mr Caplin is often seen because he is a busy MP, carrying out much newsworthy work, as we would expect. Furthermore, I've heard him tell quite a good joke, although I can't vouch for his piano-playing. Ivor?