In yesterday’s article ‘MPs throw out bids to reduce abortion limit ‘ we
wrongly attributed a quote from Ian Lucas, the campaign co-ordinator of the
all-party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, to Ian Lucas, the Labour MP for
Wrexham, who supports the current time limits on abortion and voted against
the proposed reduction of them. We apologise for this mistake.
In yesterday’s Extra the picture credits were omitted in error from our
article about Hello! Magazine. All the pictures were courtesy of Hello!
magazine and Getty Images. The photographs are also appearing in an
exhibition at Getty Images Gallery until 16 May.
Due to an error in transcription, comments made by the photographer John
Swannell (About Face, Magazine, 15 March) about the drinking habits of
another portrait subject, George Melly, were mistakenly identified as
relating to the actor and comedian Eric Sykes. We apologise wholeheartedly
to Mr Sykes for this mix-up.
In Picture Post yesterday we wrote that blue Smarties contained e-numbers.
Nestlé have asked us to point out that the recently re-introduced blue
Smartie does not contain any E-numbers, nor does any other-coloured Smartie.
In Mathew Norman’s column (28 March) he wrote that Barbara Roche had
described asylum-seekers begging with their children as "vile". In fact she
was describing the practice of using children as an aid to begging. We
apologise for misrepresenting Mrs. Roche’s position.
In some editions of yesterday’s print edition the list of signatories of the
letter sent by Nobel laureates and others to the Chinese President urging
action on Darfur mistakenly included the name of Jacques Rogge, President of
the International Olympic Committee. He was not in fact a signatory of the
letter but an intended recipient. Our apologies for this error.
In last week’s paper it was said that Judith Weir "will now be known as the
woman who killed off the BBC’s Composer Weekend". This was not intended
literally: the BBC’s decision to replace the annual Weekend with a "new
flexible format", announced in detail at the event, had been under
discussion for at least a year.