• Ian Huntley was a school caretaker, but not at the school attended by Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman as an article suggested (Botanist tells how nettles helped solve Soham murders, 30 June, p27).
• An article misnamed Shoreham-by-Sea, in West Sussex, as “Shoreham-on-Sea” (‘We’ll be at it till 10pm Thursday’: no slacking for Labour in final campaign days, 30 June, p6). Also, a reference to the possibility of a “Tory win” sending shockwaves through the East Worthing and Shoreham constituency should have been to a Labour win.
• A profile of Amit Gudka said the 2021 collapse of Bulb Energy, the company he co-founded, left taxpayers “holding what looked to be a £6.5bn bill”. But an editing cut meant we did not go on to clarify that, under the terms of a takeover deal, Octopus Energy will repay the government’s costs, meaning it is expected to be fiscally neutral. Also, Gudka raised £200m for his new battery storage company, Field Energy, not £100m, and that venture has a battery site in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, not only in Oldham, Greater Manchester, as we implied (30 June, p58).
• An article said that the writer Oscar Wilde penned the poem Two Loves to Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas. In fact, it was Bosie’s composition to Wilde (Fame, lust and hard drugs: Wilde’s Dorian Gray is back – as a genderfluid rock star, 30 June, p28).
• Other recently amended articles include:
Wider use of physician associates will increase inequality, say UK doctors
Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution
• Write to the Readers’ Editor, the Observer, York Way, London N1 9GU, email observer.readers@observer.co.uk, tel 020 3353 4736
