A front page article (“‘Lockdown shaming’ being used to settle feuds – police”) said that West Midlands police were receiving “up to 2,000” reports a day of people allegedly breaching coronavirus restrictions; a miscalculation by the force meant that figure should have been 1,000. And West Midlands is the second largest force in England and Wales, not the UK.
We misspelled the names of the Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, and Sir Mark Walport, head of UK Research and Innovation, in a Focus article (“Britain & Covid-19: what went wrong?”, 19 April, pages 38-41). The rugby match attended by Boris Johnson on 7 March was England v Ireland, not England v Wales, as the same piece said.
A picture illustrating an article about foraging did not show shepherd’s purse, as the caption claimed, but wild mustard (“Harvest time for nutritious, tasty weeds”, Magazine, 19 April, page 27)
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is the fifth album by Fiona Apple, not her fourth, as was said in a review (“Unchained melodies’, New Review, 19 April, page 26).
Other recently amended articles include:
A year on, did Change UK change anything?
My kids spent £600 on their iPads without my knowledge
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