In an Opinion column last week we spoke up in favour of a park-and-ride scheme based at Braypool in Brighton.

We acknowledged that other schemes had had their problems and voted Braypool the best of the bunch. Notwithstanding that environmentalists say park-and-ride adds to congestion and takes away from existing bus services, we said this would not apply to an out-of-town site.

That brought a broadside from Chris Todd, of Friends of the Earth. He challenged us: "I doubt there is any evidence to back up this claim as all the research done on park-and-ride, whether in or out of town, shows it takes trade away from existing public transport services."

He accuses us of taking an ill-informed stance. But we say that while park-and-ride at Withdean is likely to be used by local residents who find it cheaper and more convenient than scheduled services in the area, this would not apply to a possible site at Braypool because few people live near it.

We support park-and-ride on such a site because it should attract many people from outside Brighton and Hove to park there and go into town by bus rather than clogging up the centre with cars.

We were adrift with casualty figures in our summer road safety campaign earlier this month.

The number of cyclists killed on the roads in 1998 was 158 and not 3,312, as we said. It appears our researcher misread official figures and used the total number of cyclists killed or seriously injured.

I always find our daily Did You Know? factfile interesting, but our laurel leaves slipped last week with a bit about Julius Caesar. We said he was the first Roman Emperor to have his portrait put on coins.

Oh no he was not, John Lees, of Hove, reminded me. Julius, who was stabbed to death in the Senate - Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me! - was never Emperor.

General, statesman, dictator and truly first man in Rome, he departed this life in 44BC. The first Emperor was his great-nephew, Octavian.

He took the name Augustus when he proclaimed himself ruler in 27BC after the strife-torn republic came to grief in that bit of bother with Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

Now from people whose names will ring through history to someone who, sadly, seems to have dis-appeared quite recently in the mists of time.

The captain of Hove Park Bowls Club, Alasdair Macaulay , tells me that for the past 44 years the bowling clubs at St Ann's Well Garden and Hove Park have competed every year for the EW Peacock Cup. But no one who is currently a member of either club has any notion who EW Peacock is or was.

As Mr Macaulay says, it is likely he had connections with both clubs but he has been unable to establish this. I am sure someone reading this knows the answer. Please write and tell me.

Finally, I have been asked to point out retired milkman Jack Botting, of Hangleton, so long a stalwart of Hove Montefiore cricket club, is very much alive and well.

Many of his friends feared he had died after seeing a death notice in the Argus for someone else of the same name.