Our photograph of the earthquake-striken basilica of San Benedetto in the Italian town of Norcia carried a caption saying it showed the damaged town hall. Originally it did, but the building had been cropped out of the picture. Additionally, we said that seismologists now believe that the August earthquake at L’Aquila damaged two nearby geological faults. The L’Aquila earthquake occurred in 2009; the towns of Amatrice, Accumoli and Arquata del Tronto were damaged in August. (“Italy faces more earthquakes in the near future, scientists warn”, News, last week, page 26).
A large picture of a tram crawling up a hill in Lisbon served to point up an article’s claim that the city bore some fanciful resemblance to San Francisco with its red suspension bridge, hills, surfing and trams. However, San Francisco does not have trams but cable cars, a rather different form of transport (“Sun, surf and low rents”, News, 30 October, page 2).
A table of predecessors to Andy Murray as world No 1 tennis players included Marcelo RÍos from China. We meant Chile. (“In the elite at last and top of the pile at home”, Sport, last week, page 12).
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