• A review of the film I’m Still Here described Rubens Paiva as a congressman in the subheading; as the article itself states, the Brazilian was a former congressman at the time of his abduction in 1971 (“Before you’d gone”, 23 February, New Review, p26).
• In our “annual list of everything we love in the world of food” we said the writer and community organiser Jenny Lau was born in Hong Kong; she was born in London but moved to Hong Kong with her family as a newborn (“The OFM 30”, 23 February, Food Monthly, p27 from p16).
• Paul Farley’s poem Great Northern Diver, which was featured in last week’s New Review (p44), was accompanied by an image of a bird that readers may have presumed to be a great northern diver. It was a black-crowned night-heron.
• A feature about Wilko Johnson said the musician wrote Down by the Jetty Blues. The song in question is called All Through the City, the chorus of which includes the line: “See you in the morning down by the jetty” (“The play Wilko didn’t get to see”, 23 February, p36).
Other recently amended articles include:
Home Office contractor collected data on UK citizens while checking migrants’ finances
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