Our report on Thursday last week following the conviction of teacher Jane Longhurst's killer Graham Coutts is attacked by Jolyon Western, from Brighton.

She says: "I have to question whether your hugely excessive coverage (nine pages) was really motivated by the desire to inform the public or appeal to the worst kind of appetites.

"The level of information about the gruesome details which those close to this young woman have had to suffer does little to further the public interest.

"I also question whether it helps or harms those people who have had to endure this horrific process and adjust to life without this gifted young woman."

While I appreciate your sentiments, Mr Western, we omitted much of the gruesome evidence that was heard in court by Jane's relatives, who were good enough after the case to thank the media for helping to capture Coutts.

The Argus is also among those media campaigning to have the vile web sites of the sort used by Coutts closed down and made illegal.

Meanwhile, Jasper Vincent and Paul Mayhew, who were quoted in one of the background stories as friends of Coutts, wish to make it clear we interviewed them after his arrest last year.

Mr Vincent says: "My views have changed. I wouldn't want anything to do with Coutts now."

And finally on this subject, my apologies to Alison Goodhew and two other readers who rang in to complain about the juxtaposition of the large picture of Carol Cleveland in a coffin and the turn on the Jane Longhurst story on Monday's page 3.

Abel Hadden, who represents the Sultan of Brunei, says our story on January 29 reporting His Majesty had bought 12 Rolls-Royces was untrue.

My apologies to the Sultan for the story, which was supplied to us by a reputable news agency and published in good faith.

Terry Wing, from Brighton, points out our listings in last Friday's morning edition wrongly announced the Sussex Beacon half marathon would take place on Wednesday. In fact the event will take place on February 22, starting in Madeira Drive, Brighton, at 10.30am. More details at www.sussexbeacon.org.uk Still with exercise and Kerry Taylor, manager of the King Alfred Leisure Centre in Hove, points out that theirs was the only gym in Brighton and Hove not to be featured in our gyms guide in Body & Soul on Tuesday last week.

"Being the largest wet/dry public centre in the city, it is rather disconcerting that we have been overlooked," she says. "We have a gym called Fitness Works, which offers fitness packages incorporating swimming and aerobics classes."

This is not be confused with the private Cheetahs gym, which is in the centre and leased from the council.

In our article last Friday about a row over East Brighton 4 You (eb4u) having an office in North Laine, Brighton, we incorrectly said the organisation was run by the Chichester Diocesan Housing Association. In fact, the eb4u's ICT co-ordinator project is run by the association. My thanks to Eric Harmer and Phil Doyle, who are chairman and vice-chairman of the eb4u board respectively.

And finally, our Numberwords setter Fred Ellis did it again last Saturday, mistakenly using 14 (M) instead of 24 (E) in the word "cereal". I am sorry to say this latest error, spotted by Brian Smith, from Brighton, has cost the compiler his job and from now on his Saturday puzzle will be replaced by the daily Code-Cracker. And before Mr Smith or anyone else feels guilty, Mr Ellis had been warned!