Our poll story last week headlined “Voters back Tories to deliver best Brexit by three to one” (News, page 1) overstated the figures. The poll found 30% of people said they most trusted the Conservatives to negotiate a successful Brexit, compared with 13% for Labour. That’s closer to two to one than three to one.
A piece on a revival in rural “hutting” said the Scottish government had signalled it would be changing legislation “to exempt huts from building and planning rules”. This was incorrect. Building regulations are to be relaxed but huts will still require planning permission (“How Scotland has fallen back in love with traditional joys of ‘hutting’” (News, last week, page 21).
Contrary to the impression given in “The Silk Road is back in business” (News, last week, page 10) the East Wind goods train from China and its 34 “carriages” did not complete the journey entirely by rail. The wagons (not carriages) were transhipped at the Chinese/Kazakh border and again at the Belarus/Polish border. And Yiwu is in east, not west, China.
Apologies to Chris Hanretty, whose Analysis piece last week (News, page 8) was mistakenly bylined Chris Hanratty.
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