Our survey of tourism in the wake of Isis attacks reported on declines in Jordan in the first six months of last year after suicide bombers killed 60 in three hotels in the capital, Amman. Those attacks actually took place in 2005. (“‘Our beach hotel is not like it was before’”, News, last week, page 8).
An article on the 70th anniversary of the UN (News, last week, page 18) correctly described Sir Jeremy Greenstock as former ambassador to the UN, but failed to mention his current role as chair of the United Nations Association – UK.
England’s new-look side for the Six Nations rugby tournament will play Scotland at Murrayfield on 6 Feb, not 4 Feb (Graphic, Sport, last week, page 18).
“Six-wicket hero Stuart Broad lays waste to South Africa” announced a headline on page 1 last week. As our style guide explains, a hurricane can lay waste an island, or lay an island waste, but it does not lay it to waste or lay waste to it (the word comes from the same root as devastate).
Correction to a correction: hypothyroidism is treated with thyroxine replacement, not hyperthyroidism, a condition that produces too much thyroxine. (For the Record, last week, page 42).
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