• Plans for 15,000 new homes and £2.8bn of development (Brave new wave of regeneration washes along Poole’s waterfront, 29 May, p50) relate to the entire Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area, not just Poole or Poole harbour as we suggested. The council has set aside £50m to accelerate growth, but only £8m of that is for the FuturePlaces regeneration company, not the whole amount. And the Building Better, Building Beautiful commission was formed in 2018, not 2013.
• An article said “the General Medical Council refuses to allow forensic and legal medicine to become a specialisation”. It is the UK Medical Education Reference Group that has responsibility for considering applications for speciality status and that turned down the request; if UKMERG did endorse a new specialty, it would be for the health secretary to decide on approval (Strangulation: battle to shine a light on Britain’s ‘private’ crime epidemic, 29 May, p36).
• JD Group’s shares fell by 6%, not 18%, after the departure of Peter Cowgill (The high-flying king of trainers loses his crown – leaving JD with big shoes to fill, 29 May, p51).
• We said that Tudor monarchs ordered copies of Irish financial records to be stored in London; in fact it was from the late 13th century, in the Plantagenet era, that this requirement came into force (Seven centuries of Irish archives reborn from ashes of civil war bombardment, 22 May, p28).
• A review column said that Boris Johnson had called Keir Starmer “Severe Korma” in parliament; he actually called him “Sir Beer Korma” (Do all speak at once, 29 May, New Review, p37).
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