Our selection of “Five of the best back-to-nature cottages and campsites in Wales” (Travel, last week, page 45) said confusingly that Fox and Hounds Cottage, Monmouthshire, “sits between the Wye valley and the Forest of Dean”. The river Wye marks the western edge of the forest and of Gloucestershire, within which the forest is entirely situated; we meant between the Wye valley and the Brecon Beacons.
Usage corner: “… whenever I hove into view…” (Comment, last week, page 34). Our style guide says: “hove – past tense and past participle of heave used in a nautical context, literally or metaphorically (they hove into view, hove up the anchor and hove alongside); so do not write, for example, “Woods and Mickelson had only to hove into view” (should be heave) or “Sweeney Todd now hoves into view” (should be heaves).
In “Jamie, Nadiya and Instagrams big stars: who’s who in the new list of food’s top 50” (News, 1 May, page 5) we neglected to mention that a list of 50 influential figures in food, which had originally appeared in the Grocer magazine, was compiled by the advertising agency Telegraph Hill.
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