Mike Willson, of Southwick, is disparaging about the Argus' front page of Saturday, March 12.
We exclusively revealed John Prescott had two of his entourage's cars issued with parking tickets during a visit to Hove.
Mr Willson asks: "Was it pure coincidence that an Argus photographer, two police officers and a Tory activist happened to come together for a posed shot of a motorist being booked for illegal parking?
"Was it also a coincidence that the photographer missed an opportunity to catch a Tory hooligan being admonished by the same police officer (sic) for his behaviour in George Street?
"Can you also confirm that the van and the taxi, also featured in the picture, got off?
"Was it an oversight that in organising the photo-shoot The Argus was undermining the political neutrality of the police? Let's hope you can do much better during the rest of the election campaign."
Well, Mr Willson, the picture showed the moment Mr Prescott was leaving Hove and not the moment the cars were booked since at that time our photographer was busy taking pictures of Mr Prescott elsewhere.
Similarly, we didn't witness anyone else, Tory or otherwise, getting booked and only found out about Mr Prescott's group's misfortune later and then arranged another picture of the police officers which appeared inside the paper. Pictures of a Tory protester appeared in the paper the previous day when the visit took place.
As always, The Argus was honest, fair and above board. I have just one question for you, Mr Willson. You wouldn't possibly be the same Mike Willson, leader of the Labour group on Adur District Council, would you?
Still with politics and PR Mockridge, Conservative candidate for Saltings on West Sussex County Council, asks why, in our list of candidates standing in the council elections published on page 31 last Friday, his was the only ward not to have a banner heading and was "lumped under" Rustington West. Also why Lib Dem opponent Pat Beresford's party was not in bold type like the rest of the candidates.
It was, of course, a page make-up error as I suspect Mr Mockridge himself knows as he concludes: "I think this confirms that your paper gets read from cover to cover!"
Our report last week on the memorial service for disabled services pioneer Ronnie Ablett should have said he had been made an MBE and not received an OBE. Sorry.
And our story last Thursday about Simone Stead's award of £70,000 damages for a hospital operation that went wrong should have said the deductions made from the money were clawbacks from money already awarded by the Compensation Recovery Unit and were not legal costs, which were paid by the defendants. Thank you to Melanie Minter of Mrs Stead's lawyers, Wynne Baxter, for the clarification.
An article on April 27 about a fire at a council property in York Avenue, Hove, stated the blaze was started by an electrical fault, information given to us in good faith at the time by the fire service. I am happy to report it was subsequently discovered the cause was a candle. Thank you to Gary Thurston, head of housing at Brighton and Hove City Council, for the information.
Mr R F Grenville was amused by our story last Tuesday about a misspelling on a road sign on the A27. He explains: "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - your paper must be one of the worst for spelling mistakes, bad English etc."
Recent examples included a map in which Carden Avenue was spelt Cardan, Roedean Road become Roedean Way and we relocated both St Mary's Church and Roedean School.
Sorry, Mr Grenville, we will try harder.
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