“Pink premium? There are greater problems” (Comment, last week, page 36) said that an Australian court ordered the manufacturer of Nurofen to stop selling identical painkillers at different prices. In fact, the court made no reference to pricing as Nurofen’s Specific Pain Range, which contains lysine (which is absorbed more quickly than regular ibroprofen), has the same recommended retail price, but it did, as the piece made clear, find that the pills were misleadingly marketed in a way that suggested the same pill targeted different types of pain.
Contrary to “Swampy, activists in trees, bypass battles… what is the legacy of Nineties eco-protests?”, Pippa Pemberton, once a Newbury protester, is a former, not a current, inspector of ancient monuments and is a prospective Wales Green party candidate for the Welsh assembly elections for Mid and West Wales, not a prospective Green MEP.
Even a skilled cook would be hard-pressed to conjure up five jars of pink grapefruit marmalade with a mere 1.8ml of water. We meant 1.8 litres (Recipe, Food and Drink, Observer Magazine, 17 January, page 28).
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