COMPUTER buff Tony Burroughs has been left feeling red-faced - after accidentally wiping off the names of people on his course by blundering with his computer.

In trying to sort out another problem, the 38-year-old, who jointly runs a school computer course for parents, wiped the names off his disk after pressing the wrong button.

As a result, he found himself having to appeal through Brill's parish magazine for the ten parents who had enrolled on the course to contact him.

Mr Burroughs, of Church Street, Brill, who runs a ten-week computer course at Brill Church of England Primary School, said: "The crux of it was I had to get a problem resolved very quickly.

"I couldn't load the computer, so I copied off what I thought I needed on to a diskette. I forgot about the course!

"I suppose the lesson to be learnt is to always back up your work. It's not ideal to be running a computer course and having to admit I blundered with one!"

He added: "I needed the people who had enrolled for my second course next term to contact me, so I presented it in the parish magazine in a way that would give people a laugh at my expense. "I told them that, due to a computer error, I had lost the names of people who had come forward for my course."

Mr Burroughs, who runs two record shops in Bicester and Aylesbury, is hoping he doesn't make any mistakes in his other great hobby - flying light aeroplanes.

"That might turn out to be a little more serious!" he added.

He said he had since managed to contact all but one of the members who had enrolled on the course, which is due to start at the beginning of the school's summer term.

Mr Burroughs and his partner Alan Horton, who works with computers for a living, are halfway through their first course at the school. They are using ten computers which were bought by the school after a massive £50,000 fundraising effort.

Mr Burroughs said: "Someone said to me that it seemed a pity that the computers were switched off at 3pm each day. That's when the penny dropped and we started these courses."

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