• Billy Smyth, who died in Spain from an adverse reaction to Nolotil in April 2016, was Irish, not British as an article implied (“Families left to suffer after deaths linked to painkiller banned in UK”, 21 January, p18).
• An image captioned as showing the writer “[Julia] Donaldson’s Gruffalo’s child” was in fact a development drawing for that character by the illustrator Axel Scheffler and not the one used in the book, The Gruffalo’s Child, itself (“Heart, soul, pride, joy ... that’s the school library, says Philip Pullman”, 21 January, p13). This image appeared in the print edition only.
• The film Argylle was not produced by a company owned by Chelsea football club’s chairman, Todd Boehly, as a sports article said in referring to a publicity stunt for the new film that took place in the East Stand at Stamford Bridge (“Pochettino’s humble vision at odds with Boehly’s love of glitz”, 14 January, Sport, p5).
• Castanheiro Boutique Hotel in Funchal does have a restaurant, contrary to the information given in a travel piece about Madeira. Its Tipografia restaurant is open to hotel guests and visitors (“Raise a glass to Madeira”, 21 January, Magazine, p35).
• Mary, Mary: a column stated that Elizabeth I “had her sister Mary executed”; this should, of course, have referred to her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots (“Will no one rid King Charles of his turbulent prince – Andrew has to go, but how to do it?”, 14 January, p47).
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