“Watchdog had a quiet Christmas, but it will need to show its teeth” (Media, last week, page 39) questioned the presence of Bill Newman, retired managing editor of the Sun, on the board of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, and noted he had not attended its first two meetings. We should make it clear that his recuperation from a serious operation prevented him attending those meetings. We wish him a speedy recovery.
A mistranslation in a commentary piece on the Pegida anti-immigrant protest marches in Dresden allowed this sentence into the paper: “For centuries, commemorations of the Second World War here have concentrated on the allied bombing of 13 February 1945.” We meant, of course, decades. The mistake was ours, not the author’s. (“Why my city sees itself as a victim”, In Focus, last week, page 23).
Today’s Tech Monthly story about schoolboy Jamie Edwards, who is the youngest person in the world to have built a working a nuclear fusion reactor (“The boy who put a star in a jar”, page 13), says he used a neutrino detector to confirm his achievement. We mean a neutron detector.
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