A Focus piece (“America’s pandemic nightmare”, 19 July, page 36) said that the US federal unemployment assistance programme gives each claimant an extra $600 per month; it should have said per week.
Vanessa Paradis was mistakenly described in an article as Johnny Depp’s former wife; the couple did not marry (“Hollywood actors and studios fear fallout from the explosive Depp trial”, 19 July, page 20). The same article said that Paradis and Winona Ryder, who had both been scheduled to appear as witnesses but were not called, had “issued press statements”. To clarify: the court released their witness statements to the press.
An article (“‘It was like a bomb had hit an off-licence’: rise in wild camping ruins beauty spots”, 19 July, page 8) omitted several noughts when it referred to the National Trust managing “250 hectares of mainly open access land in the UK”; the correct figure is 250,000 hectares.
When referring to the NHS’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme reopening in October, we should have clarified that this meant the full resumption of face-to-face services; online and telephone sessions have continued during the pandemic (“Therapists and teachers warn of looming autumn mental health crisis”, 19 July, page 7).
Other recently amended articles include:
Plaudits for Nicola Sturgeon fuel talk of Scottish independence drive
Ealing comedies remind us that life is many shades of grey
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