A caption to a photograph accompanying our Dispatch from Treviso last week might have given the impression that the picture showed the town of Valdobbiadene in Italy. The town gives its name to the prosecco-growing district of the Veneto area; the picture showed the hamlet of Follo in that district, not the town (“In prosecco country, winemakers fend off critics who say drink has lost its sparkle”, News, last week, page 2).
Apostrophe corner: “five weeks’ previously”. No apostrophe is needed here as there is no possession (test this by changing the sentence to a singular – “one week previously” would be correct, not “one week’s previously”). However, “in a few years time” should take an apostrophe after “years” (again, test with a singular: “in a year’s time” would be correct, not “in a year time” (“I used to be a nanny. But today I am a chef”, Food Monthly, last week, page 36).
In “Lionesses’ roars push Sampson closer to the edge” (Sport, last week, page 10) we said Taffs Well football club was “a Welsh non-league side”. Taffs Well play in the Welsh football league and are currently in league one. And Creigiau is not “a village just outside the Welsh capital”. It’s a district of Cardiff.
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