While playing for Bolton Wanderers in 2012, Fabrice Muamba collapsed owing to a cardiac arrest, not a heart attack (Shock as Danish player collapses on Euros pitch, 13 June, page 2 from 1).
An article (From Tudors to BLM, a tour across centuries of black London’s past, 20 June, page 16) referred to Bronze Woman being, in 2008, the first public statue of a black woman on permanent display in England. This omitted reference to Kevin Atherton’s 1986 Platform Piece at Brixton railway station, which is thought to be the first public sculptural representation of black British people in the UK and includes a depiction of Joy Battick.
We said Sabrina Verjee “became the first woman to do all the Wainwrights in 2020”. In fact, her achievement then was to be the first woman to run all 214 of those peaks consecutively, which she did in six days, 17 hours and 51 minutes (A record breaker at one fell swoop, 20 June, page 45).
An article said the garden designer Robert Barker was “turning potential clients away”. In fact, Barker has a waiting list of up to two months for potential clients (Fancy a garden makeover? Better join the long queue..., 20 June, page 7).
An image that was captioned as being of Phuket actually showed the Phi Phi islands, also in Thailand (’Devastated’ Phuket in race to vaccinate 70% of islanders in time for holiday season, 20 June, page 29).
Other recently amended articles include:
Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi hailed as Iran’s new president
Ask Philippa: meet the Observer’s brilliant new agony aunt
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