Miss A. Beard, from Southwick, accuses us of bias after we failed to report on the four-day Carden Park Festival in Brighton earlier this month.

She says: "About 9,000 people went through the gates and everybody I spoke to had a fantastic time. The Church of Christ the King in New England Street organised the event and it was very professionally done."

And the bias? Miss Beard explains: "The Pride event had a double page spread. The Carden Park event was wholesome and good, clean fun but it seems only flaunting homosexuality is acceptable in this city."

Which brings me to Karen Ashby, from Brighton, who didn't like our Pride coverage either - but for a different reason.

Karen, who took part in the parade, says: "It was full of colour, atmosphere and excitement with everyone having a great party but you opened The Argus and where was it all?

The biggest and best Pride ever (90,000 revellers) and you can't find a decent spread of colourful pictures. It might as well have been in black and white."

Sorry to anyone at either festival who felt the same.

Now two complaints about our coverage of last week's GCSE results. Carol Tuffin says we always print pictures of girls rather than boys celebrating their exam success. Her son was among pupils at Lancing College whose picture was taken by one of our photographers.

She says: "On the day of the results you published a photograph of girls at St Mary's Hall and the next day four photographs all of girls except one boy because he was kissing - yes, you guessed it - a girl. What a shame you consider girls' successes more important than boys'."

Well, not quite. The picture of your son and his classmates in fact appeared on the front page of our Worthing edition.

Meanwhile, a "Brighton parent" spotted that St Mary's Hall pupils were also pictured for the recent A level results and points out: "There are lots of other schools with successful pupils and not all of them pay thousands of pounds a year to achieve their success". Ouch!

Meanwhile, our real GCSE questions test on Wednesday last week included a maths equation that foxed at least two readers.

The printed question was 3X-3=2X-12=? What is X? The answer given was five.

Peter Palmer, from Eastbourne, says: "We often hear that in today's world values have changed but when I went to school the answer would have been X= minus 9. Perhaps that's why I failed my O-level (as it was called then) maths."

Ronald Reeve, from Shoreham (who left school in 1939), says there should have been two answers: 12 (3x5-3) and minus 2 (2x5-12), adding: "I welcome any enlightenment you may be able to provide."

Go to the top of the class, gentlemen. We misprinted the equation. It should have read 5X-3=2X+12 (answer, five).

Rob Cullen, from Shoreham, enjoyed our report on lifeboatmen in Life on Tuesday last week but says the caption to one of the pictures wrongly stated a crew member was working on a lifeboat when in fact it was a municipal harbour boat. Sorry and thanks.

R Aylward, from Hove, asks: "Why is The Argus becoming a car magazine?"

He says half the paper on Fridays is motoring advertising and on Tuesday last week there was a new car registration supplement.

The truth is the Motoring section last Friday was just 24 pages compared with 56 pages in the main paper. The Tuesday supplement was a one-off and again was only 28 pages compared with 44 pages in the main paper.