While the figure of 18% of workers in the south-east earning under the living wage was correct in a map of the UK, the borders of the south-east area were incorrect, inadvertently including the districts of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire, East Hertfordshire and North Hertfordshire. These districts (and their 2m inhabitants) should have been included in the east of England area of the map where 22% earn under the living wage. (“A living wage revolution: how a brave idea became reality”, In Focus, last week, page 28).
A subheading on our Richard Ford interview said: “Every summer the quintessential American novelist heads to Connemara to shoot woodcock.” Unlikely: the season for shooting woodcock in Ireland runs from the 1 Nov to the 31 Jan (“Richard Ford takes aim”, Magazine, last week, page 30).
A fanciful illustration of the Great Charter accompanied our story “Britain finally gets to celebrate the legacy of Magna Carta” (News, last week, page 5), not, as we called it, a “facsimile”.
In “Dark Star” (Magazine, last week, page 14) we said the actor Jamie Dornan “attended a private school in Belfast”. He went to a state school.
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