One of the answers in last week’s “You are the Ref” cartoon (Sport, page 18) was incorrect. Question 1 concerned a striker throwing a punch at the home keeper just as a home forward breaks through at the other end. The answer should have been: “This is an act of violent conduct and you need to deal with it decisively. First, play advantage – if the home forward scores, award the goal, then send off the away striker who threw the punch. If not, stop the game, send off the striker and restart with a direct free kick to the home team from where the punch was thrown.”
An editing error in a caption to a large photograph of Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, led it to state: “In other rewilded areas, lynx and grey wolves have been successfully reintroduced.” Not yet. As the story made clear: “Applications are being submitted this month … for a five-year trial to release around 18 lynxes.” No agreements exist on wolves. (“Make way for the lynx and the bear”, In Focus, last week, page 25).
While the Holland Festival was early in recognising the talent of composer Benjamin Britten, it did not stage his War Requiem in the late 1940s. It was not written until 1961. (“Forget sex tours, stag parties and drug cafes… ”, News, last week, page 21).
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