Scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles are working to stop painted images peeling away from ageing Disney animation celluloid, not “the conservation department of the Getty Museum in the Los Angeles hills”, as we had it last week. And they are using a raised relative humidity process, not the heating process we described (“As Snow White turns 80, inspiring images of gentle innocence go on sale in the Big Apple”, News, last week, page 13).
In “Palestinians set to reject meeting with Trump” (World News, last week, page 23) we said the US president had “greeted his guests to mark the Jewish new year”. The Jewish new year was in September. We meant Hanukah.
A panel in our report on West Ham’s 1-0 victory over Chelsea last week, headlined “Day of Firsts” (Sport, page 2) included a panel that said incorrectly that it was West Ham’s first win in nine games, “ending a run of 11 successive home games without a win”. West Ham have played seven home games this season and won three. This was an editing error: we meant that Saturday’s win ended manager David Moyes’s run of 11 successive league home games without a win (since Sunderland’s victory over Watford in December last year), rather than West Ham’s.
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