diff --git a/core/views/logbooks.py b/core/views/logbooks.py
index b3f3176..2c15a1e 100644
--- a/core/views/logbooks.py
+++ b/core/views/logbooks.py
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ import re
 from django.db.models import Q
 from django.shortcuts import render
 from django.views.generic.list import ListView
+from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
+
 
 import troggle.settings as settings
-from troggle.core.models.logbooks import LogbookEntry, PersonLogEntry, QM
+from troggle.core.models.logbooks import LogbookEntry, PersonLogEntry, QM, writelogbook
 from troggle.core.models.survex import SurvexBlock, SurvexFile
 from troggle.core.models.troggle import Expedition, Person
 from troggle.core.models.wallets import Wallet
@@ -218,6 +220,31 @@ def personexpedition(request, slug="", year=""):
         print(msg)
         return render(request, "errors/generic.html", {"message": msg})
 
+def logentrydelete(request, year):
+    """This only gets called by a POST from the logreport page
+    
+    The function in memory of James Waite who managed to make so many duplicate  logbook entries
+    that we needed a sopecial mechanism to delete them.
+    """
+    eslug = request.POST["entry_slug"] 
+    entry = LogbookEntry.objects.get(slug=eslug)
+    # OK we delete it formt he db and then re-save logbook.html file
+    # to ensure that the permanent record also has the entry deleted.
+    entry.delete()
+    
+    print(f"- Rewriting the entire {year} logbook to disc ")
+    filename= "logbook.html"   
+    try:
+        writelogbook(year, filename) # uses a template
+    except:
+        message = f'! - Logbook saving failed - \n!! Permissions failure ?! on attempting to save file "logbook.html"'
+        print(message)
+        return render(request, "errors/generic.html", {"message": message})
+            
+    
+    return redirect(f"/logreport/{year}")
+
+
 def logreport(request, year=1999):
     """
         Remember that 'personexpedition__expedition' is interpreted by Django to mean the
@@ -231,7 +258,12 @@ def logreport(request, year=1999):
     expeditions = Expedition.objects.all()  # top menu only, evaluated only when template renders
     dates = None
     dateditems = None
+    logged_in = False
+
     
+    if request.user.is_superuser:  # expoadmin is both .is_staff and ._is_superuser
+        logged_in = True
+
   
     try:
         expo = Expedition.objects.get(year=int(year))
@@ -265,6 +297,7 @@ def logreport(request, year=1999):
             "settings": settings,
             "dateditems": dateditems,
             "dates": dates,
+            "logged_in": logged_in,
          }
         # print(f"logreport(): rendering..")
         return render(request, "logreport.html", context)    
diff --git a/parsers/survex.py b/parsers/survex.py
index 5c59e6d..fb0f8d3 100644
--- a/parsers/survex.py
+++ b/parsers/survex.py
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ class LoadingSurvex:
     rx_include = re.compile(r"(?i)^\s*(\*include[\s].*)$")
     rx_include2 = re.compile("(?i)include$")
     rx_commref = re.compile(r"(?i)^\s*ref(?:erence)?[\s.:]*(\d+)\s*#\s*(X)?\s*(\d+)")
-    rx_ref_text = re.compile(r'(?i)^\s*\"[^"]*\"\s*$')
+    rx_ref_text = re.compile(r'(?i)^\s*\"[^"]*\"\s*$') 
     rx_star = re.compile(r"(?i)\s*\*[\s,]*(\w+)\s*(.*?)\s*(?:;.*)?$")
     rx_starref = re.compile(r"(?i)^\s*\*ref[\s.:]*((?:19[6789]\d)|(?:20[0123]\d))\s*#?\s*(X)?\s*(.*?\d+.*?)$")
     rx_argsref = re.compile(r"(?i)^[\s.:]*((?:19[6789]\d)|(?:20[012345]\d))\s*#?\s*(X)?\s*(.*?\d+.*?)$")
@@ -2689,7 +2689,7 @@ def survexifywallets():
                     if b.parent.scanswallet != sentinelbad:
                         b.scanswallet = b.parent.scanswallet
                         continue
-                message = f"  ! *REF missing {b.date} {b.survexfile}.svx : '{b}'"
+                message = f"  ! *REF missing {b.date} {b.survexfile}.svx : '{b}'" # msg appears if a *ref "something in quotes" actually does exist.
                 if b.date > date(2019, 1, 1) and b.date < date(2020, 1, 1):
                     print(message, file=sys.stderr)
                 url = get_offending_filename(b.survexfile.path)
diff --git a/templates/logreport.html b/templates/logreport.html
index b76b979..5db7c76 100644
--- a/templates/logreport.html
+++ b/templates/logreport.html
@@ -19,9 +19,14 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>(Hover mouse over the date to see the slug for the entry.)
+{% if logged_in %}<font color="red">Logged in as expoadmin</font>{% endif %}
+
+
 
 <table class="expeditionlogbooks">
-<tr><th>Date</th><th>Logged trips and diary entries</th><th>Cave</th><th>Text..</th><th>Words</th><th>Author</th><th>Who else</th></tr>
+<tr><th>Date</th><th>Logged trips and diary entries</th><th>Cave</th><th>Text..</th><th>Words</th><th>Author</th><th>Who else</th>
+{% if logged_in %}<th><font color="red">Admin</font></th>{% endif %}
+</tr>
 {% regroup dateditems|dictsort:"date" by date as dates %}
 {% for date in dates %}
     {% for entry in date.list %}
@@ -52,12 +57,20 @@
                     <a href="/personexpedition/{{w.personexpedition.person}}/{{year}}">{{w.nickname_used}}</a>,
                   {% endfor %}
                 {% endif %}            
-           
+                 
         </td> 
+{% if logged_in %}
+<form name="import" method="post" action="/logentrydelete/{{year}}">{% csrf_token %}
+<td><input  type="hidden" value="{{entry.slug}}" name="entry_slug">
+<input type="submit"  value="delete"></td>
+</form>
+{% endif %}
       </tr>
      {% endfor %}
 {% endfor %} 
 </table>
+   
+
 
 <p>See also:
 <ul>
diff --git a/urls.py b/urls.py
index 6278d92..e0e55f3 100644
--- a/urls.py
+++ b/urls.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from troggle.core.views.expo import (pubspage, indexpage, editexpopage, expofile
                                      expofilessingle, expopage, map, mapfile,
                                      mediapage, spider)
 from troggle.core.views.logbooks import (QMs_jsonListView, Expeditions_jsonListView,
-                                         Expeditions_tsvListView, expedition, logreport,
+                                         Expeditions_tsvListView, expedition, logreport, logentrydelete,
                                          get_logbook_entries, get_people,
                                          logbookentry, notablepersons, person,
                                          personexpedition)
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ trogglepatterns = [
     re_path(r'^logbookentry/(?P<date>.*)/(?P<slug>.*)/?$', logbookentry,name="logbookentry"),   
     re_path(r'^logbook$', exportlogbook, name='exportlogbook'), 
     path('logreport/<slug:year>', logreport, name='logreport'), 
+    path('logentrydelete/<slug:year>', logentrydelete, name='logentrydelete'), 
+    
    
 #   Internal. editfile.html template uses these internally
     re_path(r'^getPeople/(?P<expeditionslug>.*)', get_people, name = "get_people"),