To clarify, the resignation of the Public Health England chief alcohol adviser was over links from Public Health England to a charity partly funded by the drinks industry, not links from Public Health England to the drinks industry (“Save the pub or safeguard health? The battle raging over the price of a pint”, News, 14 October, page 23).
We misnamed the American writer Henry David Thoreau as William Thoreau (“City boy-turned-sheep whisperer”, Magazine, 23 September, page 64”).
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