• An article incorrectly included Sex, Lies, and Videotape among films produced by Harvey Weinstein. His Miramax company was the film’s distributor but was not involved in its production (“‘People have forgotten how far Weinstein’s damage went. It hasn’t gone away’”, 20 April, p13).
• The main photograph accompanying an article about a new television series (“Reality TV comes to the Cotswolds. Oh, how jolly!”, 20 April, p40) was said to show “Witney, in Oxfordshire, and the rolling Cotswold hills”. The aerial view was actually of the nearby village of Stanton Harcourt. This error was in the print edition only. Also, it ought to have been made clear that images depicting the surface of Mars and the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover were illustrations rather than photographs (“Is there life on Mars? Why the hunt for aliens is also a quest for humanity”, 20 April, p3).
• An article referred to the founders of the United States taking up arms “during the American civil war”; the intended reference was of course to the revolutionary war, or war of independence (“Oklahoma City 1995 ...”, 20 April, p33).
• A recipe for sausages and black-eyed beans (13 April, Magazine, p20) omitted to say when to add the beans; they should be introduced with the hot stock.
Other recently amended articles include:
• Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize
• From kumquats to lime caviar: UK foodies embrace a whole new world of citrus
• Trump’s political bullying of Harvard will do nothing to foster diversity of thought
• Katy Perry got into space but I can’t get to Norwich
• Le Touquet: old-world glamour on the French coast
• ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric
• UK taxpayers contributed £89m to the most expensive movie ever made
These corrections and clarifications relate to articles published by the Observer when it was part of Guardian News and Media (GNM). From 22 April 2025 the Observer moved to new ownership at Tortoise Media. Details of GNM’s complaints and corrections process can be found here.
