Stoke City may have pipped Albion in the battle against the drop but their fans didn't appreciate our humorous article comparing the Potteries with Brighton and Hove.

Three of the six responses are unprintable in a family newspaper but Andy Holmes, from Stanmore, Middlesex, rightly points out that the introductory standfirst to Simon Flacks' article wrongly pinpointed Stoke as "somewhere in the Black Country" (which is actually between Birmingham and Wolverhampton).

"I find it very sad," he says, "you have to get personal about a place when you don't even know where it is, let alone know what most of the people are like." Touch.

(You can read the rest of Mr Holmes' response and the other two on today's letters page.)

Maurice Packham, from Horsham, thanks us for publishing his letter last Friday about lazy voters but complains we printed him as saying our system of government was "the envy of less happy lands" instead of "less happier".

His use of the double comparative had been intentional and was as Shakespeare had used it in Richard II.

He says: "I do congratulate The Argus on its stand for good English but Shakespeare was a law unto himself." Indeed.

Barry Pinchen, from Rottingdean, says he was "surprised" that our eight-page local elections results special last Friday didn't include parish council results. He says Rottingdean's were some of the first to be announced, adding: "It's a pity your paper failed to be first with the news."

Fair point, Mr Pinchen, but the reason we didn't include them was because the vast majority of parish council results for Sussex weren't available until late on Friday. With a bank holiday weekend following, we decided to publish as many as possible on Tuesday and the remainder, including Rottingdean (admittedly very belatedly), on Wednesday.

Similarly, Mrs Foard, from Newhaven, complains her local results weren't in on Tuesday when she had bought the paper specially to see them. My apologies - they were also in on Wednesday.

Now back to last Friday's results and, according to Councillor Tony Parker, the victorious Liberal Democrat candidate in Uckfield Ridgewood, we managed to transpose his two rivals' results. It therefore appeared Labour was the main opposition to him when in fact the party's candidate polled 51 votes compared to the Tories' 320 votes. Coun Parker polled 483.

Meanwhile, congratulations on our elections coverage is offered by Ewan Beard, from Hove, and Conservatives Ray and Elsa Wootton, from Saltdean, who say: "It must have been hard work." Thanks, it was.

David Cockram, from Haywards Heath, criticises our report on April 24 of the South Central train which crashed through barriers into trees near homes at the Lover's Walk depot in Miller Road, Brighton.

He says: "Nobody hurt, unlike so many road crashes which go under reported, but a splendid photo opportunity of course. For your reporter to then drag in unrelated incidents is silly and lazy reporting."

He also asks wasn't the following day's advert for bank holiday horse racing published first and "misleadingly" before the Easter holiday?

No, Mr Cockram, it wasn't so this time it's you who's off track.

And finally, Elizabeth Syrett, from Lewes, thanks us for the "entertaining and largely accurate" report about her chocolate shop in the town, which appeared on April 14.

She adds: "It made a refreshing change not to be obliged to write in praise of myself."