In “My house in the middle of Ed’s street” (Magazine, last week, page 22), we erred in stating that Margot Heinemann was married to JD Bernal, the Nobel-prize winning chemist. Bernal was a physicist and crystallographer but never won the Nobel. And while he lived with Heinemann, the two were never married.
A football piece from a news agency headlined “Warnock fury over ‘assault’ on Speroni” (Sport, last week, page 3) reported on Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock’s anger at head injuries inflicted on goalkeeper Julián Speroni, and his comparison of the clash to the 1956 FA Cup Final, when Manchester City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann was left with a broken neck. The news agency described it as an “infamous incident” but Trautmann’s injuries were caused by an accidental high-speed collision with Birmingham City’s Peter Murphy. Trautmann played on for the remainder of the match despite his injury and never blamed Murphy.
Fiona Woolf, lord mayor of London, who resigned on Friday as head of a government inquiry into historic child abuse, is not (yet) Lady Woolf (“Victims threaten to boycott Woolf inquiry into child abuse”, News, last week, page 5).
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