YESTERDAY'S Argus was a record-breaker. We had more than 500 jobs on offer in our regular Thursday supplement, more than ever before.

A New Year brings new opportunities, so when Sussex companies wanted skilled staff, naturally the Argus was first choice.

They know they'll get the right people. Not just through the paper, though. Every job is on our website, too. Just log on to wwwthisisbrighton.co.uk and see for yourself.

If you are looking farther afield, you can find jobs all over Britain through our site and its links to Fish 4, already the biggest national employment network on the Internet. As well as jobs you can look for a home or a car through Fish 4 and with more than 1.9 million listings altogether you will almost certainly find what you are looking for.

Remember too, you'll find national and local news on our site, a What's On guide, weather forecasts, on-line auctions, tourist and leisure information and much more.

So whatever you want, you can find it through the Argus and the Internet. It's the paper to read, and the website to visit.

We made a complete mess of a story just before Christmas about a young Brighton couple's problems with the gas fire in their new council flat. We reported it was leaking carbon monoxide gas since that was what we had been told.

When we put the claim to a Brighton and Hove Council spokesman we took the fact he did not deny it as confirmation it was true. In fact, the Press officer, who was still investigating the matter, took our reporter's word that the gas had been leaking as fact. That was why he said the council had been extremely concerned the fire had been given the all-clear.

Hands up. We didn't check thoroughly enough and went into print with a report that was wrong. Tests by a council engineer showed the fire was perfectly safe. We apologise for the error and are glad to put the record straight.

Last week, if you recall, I wrote about that splendid Bygone Brighton supplement full of the famous and infamous people of Sussex we published on the last day of the century.

And as you will have seen from Monday's paper, we had quite a few letters from you asking why we had left out So and So. Our original choice was very much the personal selection of our writers Paul Holden and Chris Hare.

This week we added the best of the rest, people such as actor Paul Scofield, actress Dame Flora Robson, Fred Collins, who ran the Skylark pleasure boats on Brighton Beach, and Henry Holden, who fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn with General Custer.

On Monday we also included mountaineer Julie Tullis after receiving a letter from Brian Cooper. If we had read his e-mail more carefully we would have spotted he had in fact written only to say we had spelt her surname wrong three times in our original supplement.

Julie, from Groombridge, died aged 47 in 1986 after becoming the first woman to conquer the world's second highest mountain, K2 in the Himalayas. She was killed when a fierce storm hit the climbing party.

Mr Cooper says the spelling mistake must have been upsetting to her husband, Terry, her children and the local climbing fraternity. Quite right, sorry for our carelessness.

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