MISTAKES are inevitable in newspapers because they are produced by humans, reliant on information given by other humans, and that means errors will inevitably occur.

Factor in deadlines, the sheer number of facts printed every week and the reliance we have on information supplied to us and it is a surprise there are not more.

However, any mistake is a serious matter and not to be taken lightly - but here, for your entertainment, are a few corrections carried in other titles:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are one of hundreds of parachuting enthusiasts who bought our Easy Sky Diving book, please make the following correction: on page 8, line 7, the words "state zip code" should have read "pull rip cord."

In the City Beat section of Friday's paper, firefighter Dwight Brady was misidentified. His nickname in the department is "Dewey." Another firefighter is nicknamed "Weirdo." We apologise for our mistake.

Our newspaper carried the notice last week that Mr. Oscar Hoffnagle is a defective on the police force. This was a typographical error. Mr Hoffnagle is, of course, a detective on the police farce.

Apology: I originally wrote, "Woodrow Wilson's wife grazed sheep on the front lawn of the White House." I'm sorry that typesetting inadvertently left out the word "sheep."

In one edition of today's Food Section, an inaccurate number of jalapeno peppers was given for Jeanette Crowley's Southwestern chicken salad recipe. The recipe should call for two, not 21, jalapeno peppers.

Just to keep the record straight, it was the famous Whistler's Mother, not Hitler's, that was exhibited. There is nothing to be gained in trying to explain how this error occurred.

Here is hoping we can avoid such bloopers in the future!