MY children are more or less grown up now so I don't have a lot to do with Spongebob SquarePants.

Nevertheless, I need to apologise to five-year-old Oliver Dillon, who is a Spongebob fan and was disappointed by The Northern Echo recently.

Oliver, from Darlington, was included in a photograph published in the paper to mark the launch of a new Spongebob "Great Jelly Rescue" motion ride at the Life Centre in Newcastle. His dad Jamie emailed me to say Oliver was upset that his name didn't appear in the paper.

So, better late than never, here's the picture again – and Oliver is the handsome young chap at the end wearing the R&U hoody.

Oliver, I'm sorry. We were pants for missing out your name.