In our first edition, which circulates in Scotland, we said Scottish Nationalist, instead of National, party; had Ian Blackford leading the SNP in the Scottish parliament instead of at Westminster; and, referring to this year’s European parliament elections, we gave the SNP three out of six seats in Aberdeenshire, when we meant three of the six in the whole of Scotland (“Is Scotland finally set to bid farewell to the union?”, News, 11 August, page 34).
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