Our review of Nick Cave’s new album Skeleton Tree made an incorrect assumption that the opening lines of the song Jesus Alone referred to the manner and place of his son Arthur’s death last year. We regret any distress this misinterpretation may have caused and apologise to the Cave family (“A raw, uncompromising musical document of grief”, New Review, last week, page 32).
We were wrong to include a picture of Oradour-sur-Glane under the heading of “Five of the best abandoned places around the world” (Travel, last week, page 45). As the text made clear, far from being intentionally abandoned, Oradour, in Haute-Vienne region of France, was the scene of a terrible massacre: all its 642 inhabitants were killed by the Nazis on 10 June 1944. The razed village is preserved as a memorial. We apologise to offended readers.
A piece on Øvre Forsland hydroelectric power station in the Helgeland district of northern Norway said it produced “about 30 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of power”. Energy is measured in gigawatt hours; megawatts are used to measure the output of a power plant. (“Beauty is power”, Science and Tech, last week, page 22).
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