There are two things Jacqueline Whelan loves - animals and The Argus, which she has read for about 40 years. Sadly, the two do not always mix well.

She explains: "Over the past two years I have kept saying 'No more - I just can't keep seeing those injured animal pictures.' It feels as if there is not a week goes by without you showing something hurt."

But then she says: "I do miss The Argus when I don't have it so, after a few days, I start buying it again - until the next time there's a large photo of something in distress.

"I know you need to bring this cruelty to our attention but is it possible you could just show a smaller picture of an injured animal as it is very distressing for an animal-lover like me, let alone a child?"

We do not mean to upset readers, Jacqueline, and I am sure we have many more happy animal stories than sad.

Steve Colomb, from Brighton, has read The Argus since he moved to the city three years ago and says he enjoys most things but not our cartoon BN1 by Alex Hallatt.

"At best," he says, "this badly-drawn fiasco is unfunny, at worst utterly incomprehensible. Have you had any letters similar to mine or any expressing unbounded joy at her daily scribblings?"

We've had a few both ways, Steve, and I'd love to hear more from other readers.

Mr D Babb, from Shoreham, asks: "Would it be possible in this age of computerised printing to print The Argus centrally on the paper and to fold it in half? At present, it is printed on one side and the printing is hidden in the fold."

Our print and production manager Andy Willcocks explains: "Over the last few weeks we have been testing a piece of equipment which will automatically position the pages on the press.

"This has caused some movement in page position. We have tried to ensure no sub-standard copies leave the building.

"However, with the press producing about 750 copies a minute, it appears a very limited number of inferior copies may have entered the market. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience."

The article on the restoration of old buildings in Brighton and Hove last Friday mentioned Marlborough House in the Old Steine being restored by Eurolink, which bought it from the city council.

However, the accompanying picture was four years old and didn't show the progress of the restoration work which, according to Eurolink's Richard Beeforth, is "progressing well" and is worth The Argus taking a more in-depth look at.

Thanks to Mr Beeforth, whose offer we will be taking up.

Pete Sketchley, leader of Brighton and Hove Emmaus in Portslade, thanks us for the recent article on the community in our Tuesday Life section.

He says: "I think it was in the best tradition of local good news stories about real things happening in readers' own back yards. I read the article to the morning meeting and people with low esteem felt justifiably proud."

High praise indeed, Peter. Thank you.

Those National Lottery numbers have been giving us trouble again. Last Saturday's paper purported to show that evening's winning numbers. Sales must have rocketed!

Finally, this week's Spicer (courtesy of Gerald, from Portslade).

Firstly, he points out that in Gordon Dean's letter about Richard Cromwell last Friday we misspelt plate as place and secondly, that in a story on Thursday last week about an attack in Portland Road we moved it from Hove to Portslade.