Several readers noticed our picture on pages 2 and 3 of Saturday's paper showed pigeons flying away from the blazing theatre on the West Pier in Brighton.

It did not, as the caption said, show starlings, which had made the structure home.

Richard Paul-Jones, from Brighton, says: "Pigeons are commonly referred to as flying rats. The starlings are responsible for the copious quantities of malodorous guano. Bearing that in mind, it looks very much like a case of flying rats deserting the sinking ship."

C J Sayers, from Crowborough, says: "I see the costume wardrobe was still in order as thousands of starlings dressed up as pigeons. What a wonderful transformation - I hope the wardrobe staff get a job when the pier is rebuilt."

Mr R H Read, from Lancing, offers congratulations to photographer Terry Applin for the "spectacular" photograph.

He adds: "The fire itself was very dramatic but what made this photo a prize winner was the way Terry captured the birds in various stages of flight. What type of camera and film did he use?"

The answer is a Kodak 620x digital camera, which doesn't require film.

Thanks to all three of you.

Bob Gunnell says the article on Tuesday last week about a charity concert being held in tribute to Keith Slade was wrong to state he was the founding father of BBC Radio Brighton.

"I was manager of BBC Radio Brighton in 1967, charged with creating and running the station, which I did for some 15 years," he explains.

"I knew of Keith's work locally in the field of drama and appointed him a producer when we opened. He became one of the best arts producers in the whole of BBC local radio and created some memorable programmes."

Sorry and thanks, Bob.

Apologies now to all those people who rang in to complain about our dropping of the page 2 information panel several times to make way for our coverage of the Gulf war. It seems the tide times were especially missed. It won't happen again. They appeared as normal on the web site, however.

Patrick Botting, from Hove, says Mike Howard's review on Thursday last week of Maria Ewing and Tim Flavin's show at London's Royal Festival Hall contained two "rather obvious" errors.

"Mike stated Tim is currently in the West End in the Gershwin's My One And Only," he observes.

"In fact, this show ended its run at least six months ago. Also, the duet Did You Evah from High Society was performed in that film by Sinatra and Crosby, not Sinatra and Astaire as stated by Mike.

"Perhaps he should stick to classical concerts where he is on safer ground."

Thank you.

A news in brief item on Monday last week said Europe's largest English language book wholesalers, Gardners Books in Eastbourne, was to open its doors to the public on May 8.

In fact, it's a private opening for members of Eastbourne Chamber of Commerce, whose Christine Purkess I am grateful to.

In our story on Tuesday about Ferring gardener Bill Herbert we said he had been given an award by Age Concern. In fact, the charity was Help the Aged.

Simon Burgess, chairman of Brighton and Hove Labour Party, says he had eight angry phone calls from voters following our publication of the list of city council election nominations on Thursday last week.

Why? Wait for it - apparently because we used pictures of Liberal Democrat candidates and a Green but no Labour (or Tory) ones.

He says: "I fully expect the usual 'sod off' response but that's life."

Couldn't have put it better myself, Mr Burgess.