A tax-free allowance of £350,000 is only applicable to gifts transferred on the death of the donor, not, as we implied, on gifts that are paid at least seven years before the source of the possession dies (“Now Cameron faces questions of £200k gift from his mother”, News, Panama papers, last week, page 1).
“What’s in the tax returns: a few strokes of luck but no shady shenanigans” (News, Panama papers, last week, page 2) mistakenly said that David Cameron received a taxpayer subsidy for his suits. The clothes subsidy comes from the Tory party.
Because of an editing error, a report, “Roman cavalry will ride to glory once more at Hadrian’s Wall” (News, last week, page 25), opened: “The popular image of a Roman soldier is of a toga-clad infantryman armed with sword and shield…” The toga was an ankle-length garment. Soldiers wore a short tunic under body armour.
In “On my radar” (Agenda, last week, page 3, New Review), St Pancras New Church, one of four remarkable buildings in the environs of Euston station, was illustrated with an image of the graveyard at St Pancras Old Church.
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