A front-page article referred to “the Caribbean Reparations Commission’’ as Caricom. To clarify: Caricom is the Caribbean Community, an organisation of 15 states and dependencies throughout the Caribbean. It has a Reparations Commission whose chair, Sir Hilary Beckles, was quoted in the article (“Wealthy MP urged to pay up for his family’s slave trade past”, 13 December).
The headline of an article about George Orwell and his wife, Eileen Blair, (“Revealed: Soviet spies targeted Orwell during Spanish civil war”, 11 October, page 5) should have made clear that new evidence had emerged about the couple being under surveillance in Barcelona, rather than it being reported for the first time.
An opinion piece referred to the 5 December match between Millwall and Derby County, but the accompanying photograph showed a game between the two clubs back in June (“Ideas can be tolerated without being respected. The distinction is key”, 13 December, page 33).
An interiors feature about a small flat overlooking the Thames gave its size as 900 sq metres. That should have said 60 sq metres (“Tales of the riverbank”, 13 December, page 42, Magazine).
Other recently amended articles include:
Fit for a king: true glory of 1,000-year-old cross buried in Scottish field is revealed at last
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