Lynne Hughes was "furious" after reading historic sites in Sussex would be free to the public during the bank holiday only to get a different story when she tried to take up the offer.

Mrs Hughes, from Newhaven, and her family tried Michelham Priory, Battle Abbey and Pevensey Castle, all of which were mentioned in the article, without success and had to go home without visiting a single thing.

A "very embarrassed" lady in the ticket office at the first attraction said she was sorry but she knew nothing of the free offer, staff at the second had been "quite rude" and there was no parking at the third.

Ringing some of the other attractions once home, Mrs Hughes found a similar story.

"I can only hope this article was written by a very junior reporter," she says.

"How can someone make so many mistakes and get facts muddled in such a short piece? We are one annoyed family - miles spent in the car, wasted petrol and wasted time. I hope no other families wasted time like we did."

To be fair, Mrs Hughes, the mistake was not really ours. The information was provided by English Heritage, which lists these and other venues on its web site (including one that is closed for the year!). Unfortunately, it did not point out that some of the sites belonged to Sussex Past and were not taking part in the weekend's free offers. This was later pointed out to us by Sussex Past's marketing officer Chris Munns.

Nevertheless, I am sorry for the inconvenience and wasted journeys and shall let English Heritage know of your displeasure.

Sorry to pupils and teachers at Brighton and Hove High School and especially deputy head Christine Coleman who points out our table of GCSE results last Thursday showed the school's Year 11 pupils achieved four per cent of grades at C or above. In fact, the figure should have been 98.4 per cent (64 per cent of them A* or A).

George Schooley, an associate member of the Brighton branch of the Canadian Veterans Association, was unhappy about our picture on Saturday, August 24, of the tree-planting ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Dieppe raid and the part played by Canadian solders stationed in Sussex.

He complains the picture only showed Major General Robert Houghton, who is British, and none of the Canadians who attended the ceremony at Michelham Priory (there again!).

Sorry, sir, no offence was intended but Maj-Gen Houghton did perform the tree-planting and had been awarded the Military Cross for his bravery during the battle.

A news in brief item last Thursday about the Brighton-based Magpie Recycling Co-operative's new garden waste collection service omitted to mention the fee of £1.25 per bag. Apologies to Magpie and the people who inundated its information line, which is 01273 500021.

Our old bugbear of celebrities' birthdays came back to haunt us on Monday, August 26, when we published those from two days before. Thanks once again to Lorraine Forbes, from Eastbourne.

Our story on Wednesday last week about parents' lack of awareness of their children's options after school omitted to mention the scheme referred to was the Modern Apprenticeship Scheme, aimed at 16 to 24-year-olds. For further details, ring 0800 150600.

Finally, our numberwords puzzle on Saturday might have confused a few people like Mrs J Heath, from Brighton, who spotted there was no number 23 (letter V). She suspected an error with the answer wharfs instead of wharves, which is how her old John Bull English Dictionary spells it.

In fact, the missing number/letter was an error by the compiler but wharfs can be spelt both ways according to our dictionary (the New Oxford).