The average territory required by a pack of European wolves is 96 sq miles – not the 155 sq miles we misconverted from 250 sq km in “On the trail of the wolf, Europe’s much maligned and misunderstood predator” (News, 3 January, page 2).
“Weigh your words before mocking the overweight” (Opinion, 3 January, page 11) discussed hypothyroidism and treatment to tackle it, including a dosage of 125mg of thyroxine a day. That should have been 125mcg a day (micrograms, not milligrams).
Russian tanks rolled into Budapest in 1956, not Prague (“Me, Mum, Dad… and Stalin”, New Review, last week, page 18).
In a paragraph about French cultural distinctions we twice referred to a Frenchman as “le français”. We meant “le Français”. Le français (lower-case f) is the French language. (“The scurrilous lies written about Charlie Hebdo”, Comment, 3 January page 33).
The Dorset Bar and Kitchen is not in Brighton’s Lanes, but in North Laine, a nearby and similar-sounding but separate district of the seaside city (“Landlords appeal to regulars: carry on drinking…” (News, last week, page 17).
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- This article was amended on 22 January 2016 to correctly name the condition hypothyroidism. The original referred incorrectly to hyperthyroidism.
