• An article headlined A letter to my children from the war zone (16 June, p42) included a letter from a bereaved father in Gaza. However, the accompanying picture was in fact of a family unconnected to the article or its theme; we apologise to them for this error.
• An interview with the photographer Mark Power for last week’s New Review cover story (14 years of Tory rule, p17) was based on an early draft and contained an error where Power inadvertently said “beauty and war” tend to thrive during times of austerity, when he meant “beauty and sex”, which he had clarified to us prior to publication. In addition, our biographical note said Power’s books included two volumes of Good Morning, America; there are now four volumes in the series.
• Owing to an editing error in The Great British Seaside supplement (23 June), we said Eric Smith, a conservation campaigner in Sussex, had seen an “electric eel”; that should have been “electric ray”. Electric eels are found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins (A walk on the wild side, p12). The same supplement referred to Sandaig Bay, on Scotland’s Knoydart peninsula, as the place “immortalised in Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell”. In fact, Maxwell lived in a different Sandaig, about nine miles up the coast (Oh I do like to be beside the sea, p17). And the English resort of Withernsea is in East Yorkshire, not Lincolnshire (Wish you were here, p4).
Other recently amended articles include:
Glasgow Warriors fight back against Bulls to clinch United Rugby Championship title
Flagship free school that cost £35m closes due to lack of pupils
Puffins, catsharks and sea squirts: how to spot wildlife on the British coast
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