Election roundup: “We felt something remarkable happening” (In Focus, last week, page 32) said Reading East’s Labour victor Matt Rodda “turned over a Tory majority of 7,000 in 2015 with a 16% swing”. This was incorrect. There was a rise in the Labour share of the vote of 16%, but the swing to Labour was 8.9%. “Westminster’s new intake” (News, last week, page 9) said the new MP for Slough, the former major of Gravesham, Kent, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi was the son of the president of Gravesend Gurdwara. That post is held by Davinder Singh Bains. The same piece said Ceredigion was last held by Plaid Cymru in 2010. We meant 2000. And the constituency won by Labour with just 20 votes after three recounts is Kensington, not, as we said in “The gamble backfires” (In Focus, last week, page 25), Kensington and Chelsea. The constituency of Kensington and Chelsea was abolished in 2010 when the Chelsea and Fulham constituency was created.
“Belgian fishermen ready to battle for their survival” (World News, last week, page 23) was accompanied by a photograph that claimed to show fishing boats in Ostend harbour, but actually showed a yacht marina with not a fishing boat in sight. The picture was changed at the last minute, but not the caption.
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