• An article, Former PM Brown launches London’s first multibank site (21 July, p9), ought to have been clearer that it is the capital’s first under the Multibank initiative that Gordon Brown helped pioneer – a model in which surplus food and goods from companies are distributed via teachers, social workers and community groups to people in need – but there are other facilities known as multibanks, including the Lewisham Donations Hub set up in south-east London in 2020, providing donated items directly to those facing hardship.
• Peter Thiel, the former Facebook investor and co-founder of PayPal, is not “South African-born”; he was born in Germany and grew up in South Africa and the US (The tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump…, 21 July, p35).
• The British cyclist Adam Yates did not lose “almost 2 min 30 sec” to Carlos Rodríguez in the Tour de France’s first time trial in Gevrey-Chambertin; he was only 20 seconds behind Rodríguez in this stage (Pogacar heads for glory in Nice after storming to fifth stage win, 21 July, Sport, p8).
• An article (Fears grow over rise of ‘under the radar’ all-night slot machine halls in UK, 21 July, p18) referred to a preliminary survey published last year by the Gambling Commission, which found 2.5% of the adult population may be suffering from problem gambling, and to a previous survey by the commission that put the figure of 0.3%. The results are not directly comparable because the surveys use different methodologies.
• Other recently amended articles include:
From OnlyFans to medical trials – the extreme measures artists take to fund Edinburgh festival shows
Glen Powell: meet the new Hollywood A-lister who can do heart-throb, goofball or action hero
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