• An article mentioned a quote said to have been given to the publication Nature by Prof Ruben Saakyan, professor of physics at University College London. That quote had appeared in the print version of the journal but Nature added a correction to the online version of its article saying that it had “erroneously attributed the observation [about the level of discontent] to a specific researcher” (“Just a big toy – or key to the universe? Row over even Larger Hadron Collider”, 30 March, p9).
• An article incorrectly referred to Stockport when intending to note the racist violence of the Southport riots (“Let Britain’s magical, mythical creatures inspire a patriotism untainted by politics”, 30 March, p46).
• A comment critical of Amanda Spielman’s record at Ofsted was misattributed to a No 10 spokesperson; the quote was from a government source (“Peerage for Ofsted chief at time of head’s suicide would be ‘an insult’”, 30 March, p4).
• We described the explorer Fridtjof Nansen as a Dane. He was Norwegian, of Danish ancestral heritage. Also, his 1888 expedition crossed Greenland’s interior from east to west, rather than west to east (“A tip for JD Vance: Greenland doesn’t care about your frail human ego”, 30 March, p49).
• An article (“Mass mousehunt launched to stop rodents devouring albatross chicks”, 30 March, p32) said that New Zealand has no native mammals; in fact, it has very few.
• Write to the Readers’ Editor, the Observer, York Way, London N1 9GU, email observer.readers@observer.co.uk, tel 020 3353 4736
