Some points need clarifying in last week’s piece on young people living at home (Business, last week, page 46). It said: “If your child is over 17 and lives at home, you must declare this to your mortgage lender”: only if you were applying for a new mortgage or for a further loan on your mortgage. “Anyone who lives in the property can potentially claim squatter’s rights”: only if they have exclusive possession of the property without the owner’s consent. “Your child will be asked to sign a ‘consent to let form’”: they would be asked to sign a “consent to mortgage” form.
“How Amazon took control of the cloud” (New Review, last week, page 21) was wrong to say that the $8bn that Amazon Web Services generates annually “is bigger than Amazon’s entire retail operation”. AWS generates a fraction of Amazon’s annual revenues, which reached $88.9bn in 2014.
A piece on the The Archers said the director general of the BBC, Tony Hall, had described the programme as “EastEnders in a field”. The phrase was not his but the Radio Times’, when it asked him about fans wanting the programme to “go back to being The Archers again – not EastEnders in a field” (News, Sept 26, page 13) .
Write to Stephen Pritchard, Readers’ Editor, the Observer, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, email observer.readers@observer.co.uk or telephone 020-3353 4656
