• An article said the British Virgin Islands “does not disclose company owners”. To clarify: it does not disclose that information on a public register but it is accessible to law enforcement authorities and international agencies (Starmer: Russians hide cash in ‘soft touch’ UK, 20 February, p4).
• The farmer who reintroduced Dorset blue vinny cheese in the 1980s was Mike Davies, not Mike Reid (The return of the OFM 50!, 20 February, Food Monthly, p16).
• Paul Winstanley’s Art School series, which features in an exhibition at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, is a body of paintings, not photographs (Where the magic happens, the New Review, p26).
• A photo in a theatre review roundup showed Paul McGann on stage in The Forest, not fellow cast member Toby Stephens (Fibbing siblings and the Windrush backwash, 20 February, New Review, p31).
• The Beach House album Once Twice Melody is released on the Bella Union label, not on Sub Pop as a review said (20 February, the New Review, p33).
• There are five variants of virus that cause hepatitis, not three as a book review said (The human cost of finding a cure, 20 February, the New Review, p42).
• The apple tree with links to Isaac Newton that came down during Storm Eunice was in Cambridge University Botanic Garden, not the grounds of Trinity College, Cambridge (Travel chaos, power cuts... battered Britain still reels from storm havoc” 20 February, p8).
Other recently amended articles include:
‘Openly British’ Kenworthy signs off with criticism of IOC over human rights
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