Edward Goring, from Ovingdean, wonders whether Lizzie Enfield made a mistake in her interview with Southern FM radio presenter Nicky Keig-Shevlin.

The article in The Argus Weekend on December 27 referred to the station's popular Name Game celebrity quiz and the long time it took listeners to guess the identity of Sir Steve Redgrave last year.

Mr Goring wonders whether Lizzie actually meant the actor Sir Michael Redgrave.

He says: "If it was not a mistake and in the unlikely event of there being a Sir Steve Redgrave with a voice distinctive enough to be used in the Name Game, please accept my apologies to all concerned and forward me a portion of humble pie."

The pie is on its way, Mr Goring. Sir Steve won gold medals in rowing at five consecutive Olympic Games and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Still with sport and Mr J Denham, from Hove, wonders why our evening editions over Christmas and New Year had race cards which didn't include the following day's runners as usual and instead had five-day declarations.

He says: "Quite honestly, this is really a waste of time as there are so many non-runners that it is impossible to narrow down possible winners.

"I assume something has prevented you now carrying this information. If this is the fault of the racing authorities, who are always banging on about encouraging race-goers, then I think they should be severely criticised."

The truth is, Mr Denham, that during the festive period the evening edition of The Argus had to be published a little bit earlier than normal and before the next day's runners had been declared.

Normal service was resumed last Friday. My apologies and may I wish you good luck with those bets.

Similarly, Peter Bailey wonders why the front pages of those editions said 'Holiday Special'.

"They were normal working days," he says, "or do you subscribe to the 'Shut Down Britain Movement' which is gaining ground and promotes the view that no work should be done between Christmas Eve and January 5?"

I can assure you, Mr Bailey, the only days we didn't produce papers were Christmas Day and New Year's Day (both holidays).

We introduced the earlier evening editions simply because there would have been far fewer people out there to buy The Argus later.

Like it or not, the festive period has become a long break for many people and businesses have to reflect that.

My apologies to Brighton Pavilion MP David Lepper who we managed to make both a Labour and a Conservative MP in our list of 2003 letter writers' names published in our New Year's Eve morning edition.

He is of course a Labour MP.

We also managed in the same edition to say the writers had been published in 2002 instead of 2003.

My apologies too to those writers whose names were left off the list altogether, especially Jim Marshall, from Hove, Roger Hudson, from Eastbourne, and Mitzi the cat (owned by Carole Irvine, from Brighton), who scolds me thus: 'You are a very naughty man.

'I had a letter published but you left my name off the list so I had a really ripping time with The Argus and then went to sleep on it.'