• An article (Met forced to drop Sarah Everard vigil charges, 14 August, p9) described the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision to halt the prosecution of six protesters as an “embarrassing first blow for [the Metropolitan police’s] new commissioner, Mark Rowley”. To clarify: Rowley is not due to take up the position until 12 September.
• A feature about the Maratona bike race in Italy’s Dolomites should have described Ladin, which is spoken by many people in the region, as a language, not a dialect (Riding High, 21 August, Magazine, p34).
• Edouard Manet’s The Railway was shunted forward by exactly 100 years when a typographical error suggested it was painted in 1973 (Guess the painting, 21 August, the New Review, p46).
• A travel piece (Top 20 water adventures, 14 August, Magazine, p25) included an entry headed “White-water rafting on the Snowdonia River, Wales”, which described riding the rapids on the upper Tryweryn; “a Snowdonian river” would have been correct.
• Imperfect ending: we misspelled the first name of Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace as “Greg”. (The last word, 21 August, Food Monthly, p42).
• Other recently amended articles include:
At work there is so much gossip. I hate it, but I can’t stop
Bill Lynch: The Exile of Dionysus review – the greatest American artist you’ve never heard of?
Whales and walruses: our cruel fascination with stranded sealife
Are personalised vitamins the key to good health?
Libraries and museums to be ‘warm havens’ for people struggling with energy bills
Streaming: the best Marilyn Monroe films
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