• An article about France’s Six Nations victory over Ireland (“Fabien Galthié fears Antoine Dupont suffered ‘serious’ injury against Ireland”, 9 March, Sport, p3) mistakenly said that Calvin Nash received a 20-minute red card for a high tackle on Pierre-Louis Barassi; in fact, Nash was given a 10-minute yellow card.
• A front page article (“Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout five years on”, 9 March) said that since the pandemic there had been “a 0.5% increase” in the number of people in the UK not working and classed as economically inactive. This should have said a 0.5 percentage point increase.
• Owing to an editing error, a review of the documentary Twiggy referred to the eponymous model and actor as being “born Lesley Lawson”. In fact, Twiggy was born Lesley Hornby; she adopted the surname Lawson following her marriage to her second husband, Leigh Lawson (“Sadie Frost’s slick portrait of the world’s first supermodel”, 9 March, New Review, p27). This error was in our print edition only.
• Pray, forgive us: an image of St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, whose feast day is celebrated on 17 March, was inexplicably captioned as “St Francis” (“Did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland?”, 9 March, New Review, p22).
Other recently amended articles include:
Abuse by Guildhall tutor in 1980s left me in despair, says opera singer
Tell Mama monitoring group facing closure after funding pulled by government
‘The sewage scandal ends now’: UK water company fines to be used to clean up rivers
Mao Zedong’s first Little Red Book had blue cover and less propaganda
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