 In March 2018, the paper was forced to publish an apology after it used the photograph of an unrelated man to illustrate a news story.In October 2018 Newsquest paid "a substantial sum" in compensation and legal costs to a Shoreham businessman whom the Argus had wrongly claimed was connected with the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing and falsely alleged was an "ISIS sympathiser".The complainant's barrister asserted that he had been caused "very great distress, anxiety and damage to his reputation".