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■ December 26, 2021
The Metropolitan Police have asked us to make clear that, contrary to the headline “It’s your job to stop men attacking women, Crown actress tells police” (News, December 12), Claire Foy said it was the responsibility of all men to challenge violence towards women.
We said the footwear chain Schuh had learned it will be dumped by Nike (Business, last week). Schuh denies this and says Nike has not discontinued supplying it and it will continue to have access to Nike products.
■ December 19, 2021
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We said the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) had routinely missed chances to investigate cases properly (News, October 24). The CCRC disagrees with this and states that in the past decade only 18 CCRC cases out of the 291 that have been referred for appeal were initially rejected by the CCRC; and ten of those 18 cases related to a single CCRC review. We are happy to put this on record.
■ December 12, 2021
We wrongly said that the Republic of Ireland will require visitors from Northern Ireland to have a negative Covid test before entering the country (News, last week). Northern Ireland is exempt from the restrictions.
The 2017-19 examination results from Saint Martin’s School were mistakenly attributed to Solihull Senior School (Parent Power, last week). Saint Martin’s and Solihull School merged in 2020. We apologise for the error.
■ November 21, 2021
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An interview with Lord Botham wrongly named the former chairman of Yorkshire county cricket club as Richard Hutton (Sport, last week). It should have referred to Roger Hutton. We apologise for any confusion caused.
■ November 14, 2021
A collection of Fabergé items to be sold by Christie’s belonged to the late Harry Woolf, founder of the Underwoods chain of chemists, not Lord Woolf, the former lord chief justice, as we wrongly stated (News in Brief, last week). We apologise for the error.
■ October 31, 2021
We wrongly said that a £1 Premium Bond has a one in 34,500 chance of winning a £1 million prize in the monthly draw (Money, October 10). In fact that is the probability of winning a £25 prize.
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A winning entry in the Landscape Photographer of the Year awards (Magazine, last week) showed Kilchurn Castle, not Dunnottar Castle as the caption stated.
■ September 19, 2021
We said that Keir Starmer had written a 14,000-word mission statement with the help of Paul Ovenden and Philip Collins (News, last week). Philip Collins states that this was not the case and that he did not help to write the statement. We are happy to put this on record.
■ September 5, 2021
Our graphic “Taliban’s new arsenal” (News, last week) showed equipment supplied by the US to Afghan armed forces since 2001. How much of it is now in Taliban hands is not known. We regret any confusion caused.
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■ August 22, 2021
The interview with Mary Trump in the Magazine last week incorrectly stated that her mother had died in 2001. In fact Linda Lea Clapp is alive and well. We apologise for the error.
■ August 15, 2021
Further to our article “Animals are sentient? Of course farmers want such a notion sent for slaughter” (Comment, August 1) the National Farmers Union has asked us to point out that it is broadly supportive of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill. We are happy to do so.
Our article on incidents at Wimbish School in Essex (News, June 27) referred to a pupil being expelled. We have been informed that the expulsion was subsequently quashed by an independent review panel. We are happy to make this clear.
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Our article “Race hate crimes on the rise in Scotland” (News, last week) stated that 4,687 cases of racially aggravated harassment or conduct crimes were recorded in Scotland in 2020-21, an increase of 6 per cent on the previous year. In fact, the number of cases was 1,782, a rise of 2 per cent. We apologise for the error.
A report on motorcycle safety (News, last week) wrongly referred to Cal Phillips as the daughter of Yvonne Motherwell. Cal Phillips is her son. We apologise for the error and the distress it caused.
■ August 1, 2021
Scotland’s Land Reform Act granted public access to Scottish lochs but it did not allow fishing without permission from the rights holder, contrary to the impression given in our article on the North Coast 500 (Travel, last week).
■ July 25, 2021
A recent offer to buy the supermarket chain Morrisons was worth £6.3 billion, rather than £6.3 million as we wrongly stated (Business, last week).
■ July 4, 2021
Our column “The culture war is a conflict no one meant to start” (Comment, last week) incorrectly described Cecil Rhodes as a slave-owner. Slavery had been abolished in the British Empire before Rhodes was born. We apologise for the error.
Our article “The e-money ‘banks’ that charge 99p when you pay by card” (Money, last week) wrongly stated that MoneyMona is the trading name of Contis Financial Services. The two companies are entirely separate. Contis is a card issuer and payment processor that does not set fees for card users. We apologise for the error.
Our article “Gender clinic ‘converting’ gay children” (News, June 20) stated that a High Court judgment in 2020 banned the use of puberty-blocking drugs. The judgment in fact said it was unlikely that children under 16 could give informed consent to their use, and the NHS responded by halting referrals for such drugs. We are happy to make this clear.
■ June 6, 2021
Contrary to the implication of an article in Best Places to Live (March 28), Broughty Ferry is on the same side of the Tay estuary as Dundee. We apologise for the confusion.
■ May 16, 2021
We stated that Extinction Rebellion demands that the government make illegal all carbon emissions by 2025 (Comment, March 28). We have been asked to point out that the group’s demand is for the government to act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025. We are happy to make this clear.
■ April 25, 2021
Our story “Forced to mourn alone, the Queen bids Philip goodbye” (News, last week) made reference to an offensive remark made by the Duke of Edinburgh during a visit to China. We did not intend to condone the remark. We apologise for the offence caused.
In “Heywood nominated Greensill for CBE” (News, April 4) we reported incorrectly that Jeremy Heywood, the former cabinet secretary, had worked for Morgan Stanley for five years before returning to the civil service in 2008. He was in fact there for three-and-a-half years, returning in 2007. We apologise for the error.
Contrary to the impression given in our article “David Cameron rode the wave of Covid to target the NHS” (News, last week), Sir David Dalton was not a member of the Advisory Board of Earnd. His role as a paid advisor to the company started in June 2020, three months after he gave an interview which expressed support for salary demand scheme technology generally, without specifying any provider. Sir David states that there was no connection between this interview and his appointment. We are happy to make this clear.
■ March 28, 2021
Lord Palmer has asked us to point out that his family sold its interest in the company Huntley & Palmers to Nabisco, not to RJ Reynolds Tobacco (News, last week). RJ Reynolds acquired Nabisco the following year. He has also asked us to point out that Huntley & Palmers was founded by his great-great-uncle, not his great-grandfather. We apologise for the errors.
■ March 21, 2021
Recent surveys show that 15 per cent of Poles never attend church, not 50 per cent as we wrongly stated (World News, last week).
■ March 7, 2021
The “letter of assurance” against prosecution received by the IRA member John Downey was not part of the Good Friday agreement, as we wrongly stated (News Review, last week). Such letters were provided by the UK government after the agreement was signed.
■ February 28, 2021
The new lay member of the House of Commons committee on standards will not be considering claims of bullying and harassment, as we wrongly claimed (Atticus, Comment, February 21). Such cases will be dealt with by a separate body, the Independent Expert Panel.
We said that no members of the Scotland rugby team took the knee before their international against England earlier this month (Sport, February 14). In fact, four players did so.
■ February 14, 2021
Following our report “Battle looms as Oxford prepares to topple Rhodes” (News, last week), Oxford University has asked us to make clear that the decision on whether to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes will be made by Oriel College rather than the university itself. We are happy to do so.
The same article wrongly stated that a Benin Bronze statue of a cockerel is to be returned to Nigeria by St John’s College, Cambridge. In fact the statue will be returned by Jesus College.
The article also stated that Rhodes made money through a company that used slave labour. We have been asked to make clear that the term “slave labour” was intended to describe the oppressive and degrading conditions for workers who were paid for their labour.
The Mauritanian is wrongly attributed as a Netflix film in today’s Magazine. We apologise for the error.
■ January 17, 2021
The item “Dance your way out of this row, folks” (Rod Liddle, Comment, September 13), which mistakenly stated that no opinion polls were available on the level of popular support for the Black Lives Matter movement, was also wrong to imply that information was being withheld from the public. We have been asked to point out that the polls that were conducted found a wide range of views, not supporting the writer’s suspicion that the mass of the public finds the movement repellent. We are happy to make this clear.
Our report “KPMG hired to unearth Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk’s ‘dodgy deals’” (Business, November 22) said that Jay Hambro was “running” IRC Limited. Mr Hambro does not run IRC Limited, having resigned as Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer in January 2016, and he was not running the company during the period covered by Petropavlovsk PLC’s investigation. We are happy to make this clear.
■ January 4, 2021
David Walsh’s column on doping in horse racing (Sport, December 27) mistakenly used a photograph showing the filly Anapurna with Mark Weinfeld of The Meon Valley Stud. Mr Weinfeld, the stud and the filly have never been associated with doping, and no such implication was intended. We apologise for the distress caused.
■ January 3, 2021
Our article “Mitie merger maestro ousted” (Business, November 29) wrongly stated that Karen Thomas-Bland had been dismissed from her role as Mitie’s programme integration director after the chief executive, Phil Bentley, lost faith in her performance. The decision to leave Mitie was Ms Thomas-Bland’s own. She resigned her position amicably as she had completed her work on this project. The company has said in a statement that “she has decided to focus on new challenges and … leaves with our thanks”, having “laid all the foundations for a successful integration”. We apologise to Ms Thomas-Bland for this error.