We should clarify that the smartphone company BlackBerry has not “abandoned handsets” as we said in “Green shoots at BlackBerry?” (Business, last week, page 36). It has stopped making its own but has licensed TCL Communication to manufacture its devices.
A picture of a river scene miscaptioned by an agency as showing Tallinn in Estonia, and used in a travel piece headlined “A very Baltic Christmas” (Observer Magazine, 10 December, page 72), was actually of Riga, in Latvia.
We included the late ’Allo ’Allo! star Gorden Kaye among “Those We Lost in 2017” (New Review, 17 December, page 6) and yet, despite his appearing in all 84 episodes of the sitcom, we managed to misspell his name as Gordon.
Bute is in the Firth of Clyde, not the Forth of Clyde. The Forth is the river on the east coast of Scotland that widens into the Firth of Forth. (Map accompanying “‘We have lots of wee Syrian children with Scottish accents’”, In Focus last week, page 22).
We inadvertently added one extra teaser to our puzzles special last week by transposing diagrams A and B in the Count the Shapes item. Apologies.
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