• An article incorrectly referred to Ozempic as a “weight-loss” drug; it is a diabetes medication, with a side-effect of appetite suppression (“Too tired to cook. Too easy to open a packet. It’s not our fault we eat junk”, 14 May, p49).
• In a feature about Britain’s Caribbean food shops, we misnamed Wilford Reid, the founder of the Old Trafford Bakery in Manchester, as “Winston” (“Counter Culture”, 21 May, Observer Food Monthly, p16).
• The 17th-century artwork Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy is held by the Tate collection, but it does not hang in Tate Britain as an article said (“Looted by Nazis: one man’s bid to trace art gems seized from their Jewish owners”, 21 May, p27).
• An article (“Brazil’s wildly popular TV soaps now reflect viewers’ racial mix”, 21 May, p30) translated the name of the telenovela Vai Na Fé as Have Faith, but the series is actually known internationally as Never Give Up.
• Bromley is in south London, not north London as an article said (“Postal desert island: Mull’s residents cut off from civilisation by Royal Mail”, 21 May, p54).
• A recipe for coronation syllabub may have lacked punch: it listed two measures of dry sherry or marsala but omitted the instruction to spoon the second measure over the sponge (“Last-minute street party? Here’s a quick-fix pudding”, 7 May, p9).
• Other recently amended articles include:
‘The whole thing stinks’: water firms to pay £15bn to shareholders as customers foot sewage bill
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