• A preview of the Wimbledon men’s final said that Novak Djokovic had won a “record 13 consecutive tie-breaks”. In fact, his record before the final stood at 15 consecutive grand slam tie-breaks (“Alcaraz faces date with destiny against Djokovic”, 16 July, Sport, p5).
• Nadeem Sarwar is no longer “a senior leader at [the] pharmaceutical company Eisai”, as an article said (“New dementia drugs: pay privately or face postcode lottery, warns top scientist”, 16 July, p6).
• We misnamed the constituency of Somerton and Frome, which is in Somerset, as “Somerset and Frome” (“Starmer tells party: ‘We can’t spend our way back to power’”, 16 July, p2 from p1).
• The Bellingham Show in Northumberland takes place in the village of Bellingham, not nearby Hexham as we said (“Have you herd? Farm shows boom as record crowds flock to the fields”, 16 July, p7).
• The clue for 25 across in Everyman crossword No 4,004 (16 July, New Review, p46) asked for: “A small duck at ship’s rear (6)”. This should have referred to a seabird, not a duck.
• It was steel cladding, not “beams” as we said, that Tata made in blue and red respectively for the Everton and Liverpool football stadiums (“Welsh steelworks at breaking point over the cost of cleaning up its act”, 16 July, p52).
Other recently amended articles include:
HS2 threatens one of UK’s best Indian food streets
Galatea by Madeline Miller audiobook review – literature’s first incel
French film-maker’s family fight to keep link to chateau that inspired his stories
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