Here’s a case study in how a story can spread far and wide, causing anger and frustration for the person at the heart of the tale. I became aware of it thanks to this rather vague correction in the Guardian: A Weekend magazine article about a woman who for part of her working life dresses [...]
In our obituary yesterday of David Croft, we mistakenly said his wife Ann had also passed away. We wish to make clear that this was wrong and we apologise for the error. Report an error
While the world is focused on the actions of the now-defunct News of the World (and possibly other British tabloids), on Friday eight British newspapers issued apologies for outrageous, prominent and defamatory front pages and articles that falsely painted Christopher Jefferies as a murderer. The Tabloid Watch blog has an excellent overview of the issue [...]
Our article of May 7 2011 “8st kick-boxing WPC scares off thugs” included a photograph said to be that of Richard Chadwick who was convicted of an attack on six people in Leeds, including bursting into one home and threatening to kill the occupant’s baby. The photograph was actually of Mark O’Brien who has no [...]
I have been asked by several emailers and callers, including two radio producers, to provide evidence about my claim that Express Newspapers EN has paid out more in libel damages in recent times than any other newspaper group. So I set out yesterday to research EN’s extraordinarily dismal libel record over the past three years. [...]
On May 24, 2010, we published an article headed "Sophie Dahl: I'm no weight watcher" containing personal comments that we said had been taken from Sophie Dahl's Twitter page. We now accept that Sophie Dahl does not have an active Twitter page and the comments were invented by hoaxers. The page has now been removed [...]
IN Court yesterday, we apologised to Stephen Hesford former MP for West Wirral. On 17 October 2009, we published an article entitled “MP who took moral stance “was a sex pest”. The article reported on proceedings before the Employment Tribunal in Liverpool the day before brought against Mr Hesford by a former employee for sexual [...]
On Friday, September 10, the front page of the Daily Express stated that Gloucestershire Constabulary had sent officers to take part in a "training course to prepare for a massive earthquake". This was untrue and Gloucestershire Constabulary have asked us to confirm that none of their staff took part in this exercise in any way. [...]
In an article published on this website on 27 December 2009 until 15 January 2010, entitled “Jet bomb ordered by 9/11 spiritual leaderâ€, we incorrectly described the charity Interpal as “Hamas-supportingâ€. As such the article would have wrongly been understood to mean that Interpal and its trustees provided support for Hamas notwithstanding that Hamas is [...]
ON June 26, 2010, we published an article on Page 9 of the Scottish Daily Express concerning the grave of ex-footballer Colin Hendry’s late wife, Denise. Quotes attributed to former friend Hector McFarlane, commenting on funeral arrangements and a headstone for Mrs Hendry’s grave, were supplied to us by Watson’s, a Blackpool- based news agency [...]
In our article on January 15, “I’m too scared to go shopping on my own admits police chief”, we reported on a dispute over comments published in the Police Review about Peter Vaughan, the new Chief Constable of the South Wales Police. The Police Review reported that Mr Vaughan had said, in an interview with [...]
FURTHER to our article “Now the EU spouts off. . . about our milk jugs” on February 3, we have been asked to point out that there is no proposed EU ban on milk jugs or any other milk containers. The tests referred to in our articles were carried out by the University of Valencia, [...]
ON January 18, 2010, we published an article within the Scottish Daily Express concerning the recent purchase of a property by author JK Rowling, entitled fiParty must’ve been wizard – Rowling pays GBP 300,000 extra to move straight into new mansionfl. In it we published two photographs of the inside of Ms Rowling’s new property. [...]
Our August 5th article “Strictly out of Step about changes to the television programme “Strictly Come Dancing” said that Sharon Osbourne had decided against appearing on it because the money on it was “ridiculous”. We are happy to accept that this is incorrect. Sharon Osbourne decided against appearing on it because of her work commitments [...]
Our article of October 17 headed “Priest brands resort ‘most godless in UK’ incorrectly attributed the quote to Rev. Archie Coates vicar of St. Peter’s, Brighton. In fact he said that it had been dubbed that by others. The report that he had been reprimanded for the comment was therefore unfounded. We apologise to Rev. [...]
IN our article "Tennis legend Martina and the Russian beauty" on August 25, we reported that Martina Navratilova and Julia Lemigova were believed to be engaged after being photographed on holiday in St Tropez, each wearing rings on their left hands. There is no truth in this. The pair are not engaged and have not [...]
THE Scottish Sunday Express has enjoyed a long love affair with the people of our nation. It is 81 years since the first edition of this great newspaper rolled off the presses in Glasgow. Over that time, we have established a reputation for crusading journalism built on the twin cornerstones of honesty and integrity. Scottish [...]
One U.K. television station and U.K. eight newspapers have published/aired apologies and paid damages after they falsely reported that a child’s birthday party had spun wildly out of control due to its promotion on Facebook. In reality, “only very minor damage was caused”during the party, it was never promoted on Facebook, no alcohol was served, [...]
I previously wrote about the U.K.’s Express Newspapers making prominent apologies to Kate and Gerry McCann. Now the papers have stepped up with another round of apologies, including this one from the Express: IN articles published between July and December last year we suggested that the holiday companions of Kate and Gerry McCann might have [...]
A PHOTOGRAPH caption in earlier editions of yesterday’s Scottish Daily Express (Tragedy as girl, 16, is found dead in her bed after party) incorrectly stated that the picture was of Jennifer Paul, 16, from Edinburgh. We apologise for any distress caused by the use of the wrong picture, which was provided by a normally reputable [...]
Today was a historic day for newspaper apologies. A sad, shameful, embarrassingly historic day. Two UK papers controlled by the same owner (Express Newspapers) issued front page apologies to a British couple, Kate and Gerry McCann. The apologies will be repeated in the related Sunday editions of both papers, the Sunday Express and Daily Star [...]
The apologies keep rolling in for Morien Jones. This story goes back to last summer. Some newspapers continue to get the story wrong, while others are just getting around to correcting their reports from last year. Below are the latest installments. Read the previous ones by starting here. FURTHER to our article on May 26 [...]
