More now on the unusual story of Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright, who claimed the Times lifted his tribute to the late actor Edward Woodward from his blog, edited it and put it in the next day's paper without telling him, let alone paying him. "For the record, I don't want compensation. But an apology, a reprint of the full tribute and donation to Edward's memorial would be nice" tweeted Wright. And it would appear he has now got two of these at least. The Times today printed a "clarification" news-in-brief on page eight telling readers: "We have been asked to make clear that Edgar Wright's appreciation of Edward Woodward... was abridged and the full version can be read here..." The Times also reprinted Wright's tribute in full on its website (although not in the paper).
4.15pm update: A Times spokeswoman said: "We acknowledge that we made an error in failing to credit Edgar Wright's blog as the source of his tribute to Edward Woodward, which we published in edited form on November 17. We dealt with the matter promptly both online and in the paper as soon as it came to our attention, and we are happy to confirm that we have made a contribution to Mr Woodward's memorial, as suggested by Mr Wright."
