“The race to find the Manchester terror network” (Special report, last week, page 9) said “Theresa May announced she was raising the threat level to critical”, implying that a prime minister is able to dictate a threat level. Threat levels are decided by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, based within MI5, and announced by government. (The current level is severe.)
Apologies to Serena, 19, a voter in the Brentford and Isleworth constituency, and Sara, 18, a voter in Hornsey and Wood Green, who both featured in an election feature headlined “How will young first-timers vote?” (New Review, last week, pages 6-9). Their interviews were inadvertently swapped in the production process. Additionally, harsh editing oversimplified Serena’s views of the political parties.
Taphophiles are people interested in cemeteries, funerals and gravestones, not – as we had it in “Tomb tourism is an old hobby in brighter clothes” (Opinion, last week, page 19) – tapophiles.
Apologies to those who searched in vain for asparagus tip recipes in last week’s Magazine, signalled in the coverlines. They had appeared the week before.
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