Regret the Error

Miscellany: ‘Whatever happened to the BMW booty?’ (News, last week) described those who salvaged cargo from the grounded MSC Napoli as ‘wreckers’. Wreckers lured vessels ashore before murdering their crews and plundering the cargo; clearly not the case here. ‘Although the government remains reticent to discuss …’ Reluctant, not reticent; ‘The truth is out: X-files go public’ (News, 6 Jan), and, while undoubtedly earnest in his endeavours, the explorer was Ernest, not Earnest, Shackleton, (’The rise and rise of little voice’, Observer Magazine, last week). Link