The author of the book 111 Gründe, England zu lieben is Christophe Fricker, not Fricke as an article said (“A Brexit nightmare”, 24 January, page 36). The piece also said that a group of famous musicians had written a letter to the Times complaining about the impact of EU visa restrictions on their “money-spinning tours”. To clarify, they voiced concerns on behalf of all performers and support staff who would be affected, “especially young emerging musicians”.
We omitted to credit photographer Gideon Mendel for the picture published last week of a nurse, June Bruton, sitting with an HIV patient, Ian, on the Broderip ward of Middlesex hospital (“‘We were so scared’: Four people who faced the horror of Aids in the 80s”, 31 January, page 41). Furthermore, the caption dated this image to the 1980s; it was taken in 1993.
Sirin Kale’s byline was missing on an article about how passwords rule our lives (“Th3 tyr@nNy of pAssword$’’, 31 January, Magazine, page 24).
An article about Tony Hart’s original drawings for the Blue Peter badge logo indicated that editor Biddy Baxter had launched the programme, and the badges, in 1958. Baxter was not editor when the show began that year and the badges were not introduced until 1963 after Baxter had become editor (“Here’s one that sailed earlier... the sketch that launched a badge”, 10 January, page 16).
We mispelled Wirksworth in Derbyshire as Wirkswirth (“Bring me sunshine”, 31 January, Magazine, page 36).
Other recently amended articles include:
Jair Bolsonaro could face charges in The Hague over Amazon rainforest
‘Find of the century’: medieval hoard of treasures unearthed in Cambridge
Professor Avi Loeb: ‘It would be arrogant to think we’re alone in the universe’
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