Wednesday's front page picture in most editions was a close-up of Lara Scully, one of a Sussex gang who milked thousands from bank accounts.

But were we right to put her on Page One? Sean Wood, from Hove, thinks not. "What did the editor have in mind - the exposure of a vicious queen of the underworld?" he complains. "Or was it just another example of that tired old newspaper cliche, the exploitation of an attractive human face?"

Mr Wood reminded us four fraudsters were jailed but Scully was sentenced to community service. What we did was to "ensure everyone in the local community and many beyond will recognise a vulnerable minor offender".

We put that picture on the front page because it was the best available to go with that story, one of the most important stories of the day. What do readers think?

Tony Booker, from Brighton, is indignant we cut his letter on Wednesday about pub chains changing traditional boozers. We exercised our proclaimed right to shorten letters, but didn't "butcher" it.

We left out your grumble that no one asked you when your local was changed from "a proper pub to something from Planet Zog" and a couple of other less significant things but included the main points. I am sorry, though, for the literal in the first sentence.

Coach driver Richard Symonds, from Crawley, didn't like Tomboy's Tuesday cartoon depicting monkeys from soon-to-close Shamrock Farm taking up jobs as Brighton bus drivers which the company is having trouble filling. He though it was insulting to the drivers, but Tomboy tells me it was not a swipe at them, just a joke about the monkeys.

Talking about Shamrock monkeys, in a story last Thursday we reported a claim the farm, which imports animals from Asia, might transfer operations to Kent. We have been asked to point out Charles River UK Ltd, which owns Shamrock (GB) Ltd, does not have a marmoset breeding centre in Kent. Claims of a switch to Kent were just speculation by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.

If you can remember the filming of Quadrophenia in Brighton, Gary Wharton, who is researching the movie, wants to hear from you. In fact, you may have already have written following his letter in the Argus. Unfortunately, we did not have his address quite right. You can reach him at basement flat, 5a Oriental Place, Brighton.

Our story about Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh, who plays Hayley Cropper, joining the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust's family bike ride came a cropper. The ride is actually on Sunday, June 4, and the phone number for more details is 01273 612101.

Sorry, too, for incomplete information on Tuesday about Haywards Heath Operatic Society's production of South Pacific. It is at Clair Hall from May 2-6. We got in a muddle about Brighton Mayor Jenny Langston going to a coffee morning last Sunday at Woodingdean Primary School. In fact, she was welcomed for Morning Service by Downs Baptist Church, which holds services there.

The Stock Exchange was off-line for eight hours because of a computer glitch last Thursday. But it wasn't because of a contagious bug, I can assure Chris Carlisle, from Brighton, that we got in a mess with the share price chart in later editions on Friday. The moving arrows and chart tagline didn't match. No system failure; butter-fingers typing led us to put our Footsie in it.

Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.