An article on an initiative to save Palestine’s agricultural plant heritage reported on “the first seed bank dedicated to preserving traditional varieties” being launched this June. However, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees established just such a seed bank in Palestine in 2008 (“In the Holy Land’s rocky hills, Palestinians create a seed bank to save farming heritage”, News, last week, page 22.
In the final paragraph of our review of The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund (“And you thought Stieg Larsson was sinister…”, Books, last week, page 43), we inadvertently referred to the book as The Crow Road, a 1992 novel by Iain Banks.
Our Wheels column (Magazine, 10 April, page 59) appraised the Suzuki Vitara, a compact SUV, but was illustrated with a picture of an S Cross, an earlier model, launched in 2013.
Ahmet Davutoğlu is, as the text of a piece on the refugee crisis correctly stated, Turkey’s prime minister, and not, as a caption proclaimed, its president (“Merkel accused of turning a blind eye to plight of Syrian refugees in Turkish camps”, News, last week, page 21).
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