A slight change of tack this week and something we didn't report on - a public meeting on democracy organised by Charter 88.

The reason we were unable to have a reporter at the evening meeting at the Brighthelm Centre in Brighton was because he was otherwise engaged covering the visit to the city by John Major and his successor as Conservative leader, William Hague. Which is quite ironic because the Tories didn't send a representative to the meeting at all.

We at least were represented by yours truly who chaired a lively and often entertaining debate that covered democratic reform (on which our own Chris Baker reported fully on page 4 yesterday), whether violence against the state could ever be justified and was politics boring?

The meeting was attended by about 50 people and, I am glad to say, many of them were Argus readers who clearly believed fervently in human rights and free speech. So does The Argus, which is why our Opinion page is often full of the sort of fascinating debate I heard on Tuesday night and why I have here tried to acknowledge and say sorry we weren't able to report on the meeting in full. Keep those views coming.

For the record, the speakers were: Keith Taylor of the Green Party, Bill North (Socialist Alliance), David Lepper (Labour), Ian Fyvie (Socialist Labour), Bob Dobbs (Free), Harold De Souza (Liberal Democrats) and James Chamberlain-Webber (UK Independence).

A further apology to Mr Fyvie whom we incorrectly said was standing for the Socialist Alliance in our profile of the Brighton Pavilion constituency published in Saturday's paper and to Mr De Souza, whose picture was omitted from our profile of the Hove constituency on Monday of last week. To be fair, though, we didn't use pictures of any of the other candidates either, preferring a picturesque view of the constituency.

Our story last Friday about the number of organisations entitled to hold free conferences at the Brighton Centre had a misleading headline, "Free conference deal is likely to be axed", according to Amanda Shepherd, the city's head of tourism and conferences.

"That is absolutely not the case," she says. "We are simply proposing to change the criteria by which we award free meeting space. We will offer the same amount of free meeting space but to larger conferences which bring more value into the local economy. This will make sure that the budget, which remains the same, is spent as effectively as possible."

Thank you for the clarification, Amanda.

Doubles now and reader Wendy Taylor tells me we printed a news brief about travellers on both page 5 and 21 of last Friday's am edition.

I suspect the error was caused by confusion in carrying over a selection of the best stories from the previous night's City Final, a practice we introduced in response to reader demand.

No good for Wendy, though, who doesn't like this because she buys both the early and late editions and so sees these stories twice anyway and, in the case of the travellers story, three times. "Not on!" she says. What do other readers think of the rolling over of stories? Write and let me know.

Peter Winstanley, of Portslade, thought he was getting short-changed when he spotted Monday's Teatime 2 page incorrectly carried the previous Thursday's dateline plus a striking picture of dancer Virginia Farman which had also been used on the Thursday to illustrate a preview of her show, Blush. In fact, the rest of the Monday page was all new - including a review of Virginia's show. Sorry for the confusion anyway.

We somewhat aged Tony Booker in his letter in Wednesday's paper about Brighton's underground passages which said he had worked at the former Eagle Inn (now the George Beard) when it was a police station. Says Tony: "That would have made me about 150 years old! In fact, what I had written was 'it was definitely a police station. When I worked there . . .'." Sorry, old chap.

Tony also provides, as he often does, this week's final item when he urges our restaurant reviewers to cease saying they "washed it all down" when referring to wine with their meals. Tony, who enjoys a classy glass or two himself, says: "Wine should be enjoyed as a slow pleasure and not commonly gulped as if it were lemonade." Quite so.