It seems we excelled ourselves in Saturday's paper in terms of errors and, not surprisingly, were inundated with complaints.

Firstly, we missed out the crosswords and puzzles page altogether - a cardinal sin, as any newspaper editor will tell you, because of the complaints it provokes.

We had more than 100 telephone calls and also letters from Mrs DM Bridgland and Mr FW Parkhouse, both from Brighton, Mrs MP Julyan, from Haywards Heath, and Mrs GS Lane, from Telscombe Cliffs, for which I am grateful.

I am very sorry for the omission and tried to compensate by publishing the page in yesterday's paper with the crossword answers in today on page 14.

The advertisement on the back of the Party in the Park supplement on Saturday for a KFC buy-one-get-one-free offer. The closing date was printed as December 30 2002, instead of 2003 and, again, prompted many complaints.

Among them were Mr K Maskell, from Brighton, and Catherine Hedger.

Catherine also pointed out that in our report on Party in the Park in Monday's morning edition we said Lisa Scott Lee was a former member of S Club 7 when it should have said Steps.

But the best comment came from Stephen Rooke, from Portslade, an avid reader since the Thirties, and whom I suspect had read last Friday's story about our journalists' latest awards success.

He said: "Did the people responsible get an award?" No they didn't, Mr Rooke, in fact quite the opposite.

The good news is that we have contacted KFC and they will accept the incorrect voucher until December 30 this year at their outlets in Worthing, Portslade, Horsham and London Road, Brighton.

On the subject of Party in the Park, Richard Symonds, from Crawley, demands to know why - when we "devoted 11 of Monday's 40 pages to a commercially-hyped event" - we provided a "paltry" report of Labour MP George Galloway's speech at a Sussex Action for Peace event at the Brighthelm Centre in Brighton.

The report failed to point out that accusations against him by a national newspaper had not been retracted, despite having been withdrawn by the US-based Christian Monitor (which we did report).

We will report the retraction if and when it happens, Mr Symonds, while the size of our reports reflected the attendance and therefore interest in the two events.

A news in brief item in the Saturday's fated edition called JK Rowling's latest novel Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire instead of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. My thanks to Brenda Street, from Worthing, for that.

Sylvia Smith, from Brighton, asks whether the Colin Fairhall pictured with the report on lonely hearts in last Friday's morning edition was the same man pictured the previous day in a report about how he throttled his grandmother.

It was the same man, Sylvia, and the use of his picture the second time was, as you say, an "awful blunder" for which I am sorry. Fairhall has nothing to do with the lonely hearts agency, Lovers2.com, and we have apologised to it as well.

My final apology is for the caption to a picture in Extra on June 11 showing Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshall Sir Peter Squire, visiting the No 225 (Brighton No 1) Squadron's refurbished headquarters at Preston Barracks in Brighton.

We called him Sir Peter Head and said, incorrectly, he had piloted his own helicopter. An accurate report and a picture will appear in Extra next week. My thanks to squadron chairman Don R Steadman.