EAGLE-EYED readers. That's what today's Diary is all about. We have them and we have a plea for more.

First, we are indebted to Tony Taylor, of Woodthorpe, York, for his encyclopaedic knowledge of the native Americans (red injuns to you and me).

He spotted The Press picture of Claire Jones, the York mum who has had a shocking pink Mohican haircut to raise cash for a leukaemia charity. But after all these years, through the punk era, it seems we've all been getting it wrong.

According to Tony: "The so-called Mohican' haircut is in fact a Huron' haircut, as anybody who has read James Fenimore Cooper's novel, The Last Of The Mohicans, will know.

"Hawkeye's best friend was the Mohican Indian Chief Chingachkook and it was Chingachkook who was the so-called Last Of The Mohicans. Like all of his tribe's people, Chingachkook had a full head of hair with two ponytails one down each side.

"It was their arch enemies the Hurons who shaved their heads up both sides and kept a tuft of hair runnng the full length of the middle of their heads.

"Claire's new hairstyle (and everybody else who sports the same style) should therefore be called a Huron cut."

So what's a Mohawk hairstyle then?

Another hawk-eyed reader is TB Strong, of Foxwood Lane, York, who picked up on our bloomer in Tuesday's Diary. He noticed a reference to us slaving at the Diary desk in 85C temperatures. Of course, we meant 85F, but we like to exaggerate so our bosses will do something about the air conditioning. Honest. Thanks, anyway, TB.

And finally, we wonder if our sharp-eyed readers have had time to lift their eyes from The Press to the heavens lately. Diary reader Rachel Lacy needs help.

Did anyone else see the strange, bright light in the sky on Monday night, she asks?

"At 22.30 something appeared in the skies, starting south-south-east, about 50-60 degrees over the horizon (from my back door it came from over the university) headed north, but not straight," says Rachel.

"It started off very big and bright, at first I thought it was a plane, but there was no noise. Next choice, a BIG shooting star, especially as it started waning like a shooting star burning up, but then got brighter again.

"I watched it for about 20 seconds, during which time it varied from faster than a satellite to almost stationary. Eventually it waned and vanished in a cloudless area of sky. No satellites were due over at this time, no comet (in this area), no meteor showers. Any ideas?"