Jason Collodi, organiser of the silent peace walk to mark the anniversary of September 11, thanks us for our report and picture last week.

However, he says about 200 people took part and not 30 as we reported, adding: "It was very encouraging to see so many people come together to show there is a different way to respond to death and destruction - just walking silently, peacefully and with compassion for all rather than reacting out of anger and revenge and causing more bloodshed."

Joan Makin, from Hove, says her letter published on Monday September 9 said she had always been in favour of council tax when it should have said poll tax. It was our mistake, for which I'm sorry.

Still with letters and apologies - if that's the right word - to Craig Turton and Warren Morgan for promoting them to councillors in their joint letter with Councillor Gill Mitchell published in the morning edition of September 4.

They are in fact prospective Labour candidates for the new East Brighton ward in next year's local council elections.

Thanks, too, to Alan Stone of Brighton and Hove City Council for enabling us to put things right for later editions.

F V Ellis, compiler of our Saturday Numberwords puzzle, messed up again last weekend when he included the non-existent word "prairy" in the grid.

The mistake was spotted by Mrs J Heath, from Brighton, and Brian Smith, also from Brighton, and who asks: "Perhaps your illustrious compiler could tell us what dictionary this word appears in?

"The English language is abused enough these days as it is without amateur crossword setters defiling it further."

Quite so, Mr Smith, and Mr Ellis is suitably apologetic.

In our article on Monday about the people who will decide the future of breast care in Sussex, we said Jean Spray was executive councillor, social care and health, for Brighton and Hove City Council.

In fact, this is no longer the case because she resigned from this position to avoid any potential conflict of interest with her new role as chairwoman of Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust. I'm grateful to the trust's Richard Forshaw for the clarification.

Our competitions now, and Mr C Pembroke, from Hove, asks why some can only be entered by mobile phone while Phyl Williams, from Shoreham, says those requiring access to the internet "ain't fair".

The answer is we try to cover all ways of entry - post, telephone and text - but some contests depend on the closing dates and the audience we think will participate.

However, for those with a closing date of more than five days, we will always accept entries by post.

Doctor Delia Parnham-Cope, from Brighton, was concerned about our headline on Saturday's front page, "Medics in pay strike threat", about possible industrial action by Sussex paramedics.

"Paramedics work for the ambulance service and undergo an intensive ten-week training course," she says. "Medics are doctors who have a five-year medical degree.

"As a doctor, I could not contemplate striking, although I understand why the paramedics feel they are forced to use this means of action to pursue their wage claim."

Dr Parnham-Cope is right, of course, but will perhaps understand the reason for the abbreviation.

Headline words are often chosen because they are short or are shortened to fit the allocated space.

Finally, a subject I have written about here before - bogus letters like the one about the Pride event from a "Mrs R Hunt" which we published last Thursday.

Please refrain, whoever you are. It's not clever and offends people.

Thanks to Johnny Lord and Gscene editor James Ledward for their responses to the letter, which I obviously can't now publish.