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 12 November 2008 we published an article about the death of Peter Connolly, who was also known as Baby P. It wrongly alleged that Sylvia Henry, who is a social work Team Manager employed by Haringey Council, had been one of the social workers who had culpably failed to protect Baby P from his [...]
An article in the Sept. 1 El Paso Times stated that Dallas Nights Country Saloon employee Joshua Kennon was engaged in "sexual activity" with a woman and allegedly intoxicated at the time of his arrest. According to an affidavit, he was "making out" with the woman while he was allegedly intoxicated. Also, although the saloon [...]
IN The Goss column on May 25 we published an article "Fan saves Amy Winehouse from Russell Brand's Dad" in which it was stated that Ron Brand had made unwelcome and inappropriate advances to Amy Winehouse, as a result of which a fan had to intervene and slap him. On May 28, we repeated the [...]
Singer Neil Young was born Nov. 12, 1945, and singer Eric Clapton was born March 30, 1945. The Short List events calendar in Friday's Weekend Journal transposed their birthdates. In addition, the listing erred by identifying Mr. Young as a former heroin user; the Journal has no reporting to support that Mr. Young used the [...]
A headline on Page 5 of Tuesday's Local section incorrectly described Anthony Genovese and his connection to a sex slavery case. Genovese is not implicated in the case. Further, the headline wrongly stated that officials said Genovese capitalized on the state's lax oversight to open bars and strip clubs in Palm Beach County. Here's the [...]
The Stockholm Journal article on Wednesday, about a movement in Sweden to abolish the monarchy, described incorrectly the circumstances surrounding the breakup of Prince Carl Philip and his girlfriend. It was amicable, not ''because of his alleged philandering.'' The article also misidentified the subject of a comment by Susanne Nylen, the monarchy reporter for Aftonbladet, [...]
IN the Argus of March 24th, we reported on the fatal shooting of Seamus McMahon in an apartment in Bothar Chrionn, Saltown. We said that he had parked his 2010 registered car outside the apartment and that the new car was a clue to the fact that although officially listed as unemployed, he had other [...]
A July 16 op-ed column on the Commentary page regarding banning plastic bags said the American Chemistry Council had “spent millions of dollars to create front groups such as the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition.” In fact, the coalition says, it was not created by the American Chemistry Council, nor is it funded or affiliated [...]
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 [...]
In our story of 7 July on page 11 we incorrectly referred to former justice of the peace Henry Dedecker as a “drink-drive JP” in our headline. Mr Dedecker was convicted of speeding and not drink-driving. We apologise for the error. Link Report an error
In a July 5, 2010, story on Page 4 and online there were factual errors in a story involving David Aftergood. The story left the impression that Mr. Aftergood was jailed and fined for supplying a mail-in ballot to another person with the intention of influencing the election in 2004. In fact, the charges against [...]
ON 31 March an article by Richard Fletcher wrongly reported that Richard Griffiths, Chairman of ORA Capital and former Chairman of Evolution Group, has an aversion to regulation because of the number of “run-ins” he has had with City regulators and was now regretting having returned to “regulated life”. We accept and acknowledge that these [...]
LAST SUNDAY we said prominent Auckland businessman Graeme Clegg, right, unsuccessfully offered a $1 million surety to have his son bailed while awaiting trial. He did not. We acknowledge the position Mr Clegg found himself in as a father estranged from his 36-year-old son and unreservedly apologise for any embarrassment caused to him and his [...]
In an article published on 29 March 2009 (“Labour Peer in standards inquiry”) it was suggested that Brian Healy, a former New Scotland Yard detective, had acted improperly in his handling of a matter for a prominent overseas politician and in the conduct of investigations for other clients. We accept that there was no truth [...]
IN Brian Reade’s column on June 3, he suggested that oil firm Exxon is regularly responsible for spillages in West Africa on a worse scale than the current Gulf disaster. This is not the case, and we are happy to set the record straight. Report an error
IN articles we published in October and November 2008, we alleged that Barry George had become obsessed with the Sky TV presenter Kay Burley and the X Factor judge Cheryl Cole. It was also alleged that Mr George had illegally attempted to obtain drugs from a hospital by fraudulently claiming to be someone else. We [...]
In an article on February 3, we implied two thirds of Haitians drank goats’ blood while practising voodoo. We are happy to make clear this is not the case. Link Thanks, MacGuffin! Report an error
In the December 7, 2008, edition of The Sunday Mail, an article titled “Don’t you own one of these, Senator?” and accompanying editorial titled “Disney plan plain goofy” were published on pages 5 and 68, respectively. They reported on an overseas study trip taken by Queensland Senator Ian Macdonald in April and May 2008, which [...]
A report from the U.K.’s Press Gazette: A woman and her partner accepted “substantial” damages from Take a Break magazine over a story which alleged that they conspired to get her former lover jailed by giving police false information. Mrs Joyce Pinfield and partner David Valentine sued over a story which appeared in the magazine [...]
Yesterday’s story “Midwife to face injured babies probe” wrongly stated, due to a production error after the report was submitted, that the health board said some of the babies may allegedly have been injured. The claim came from another source. We apologise for the error. Link Report an error
In a story contained in WENN’s 1st feed on 27 April, 2010, headlined “KATE NASH OPENS UP ABOUT BREAKDOWN, DRINK AND DRUGS”, we stated that Kate Nash had given an interview in which she discussed the effects of her “drink and drug” use. WENN wishes to make it clear that Nash did not discuss drug [...]
A correction issued by the Huffington Post that was spotted by FishBowl DC: In an embarrassing moment of Freudian word-vomit, we said in Tuesday’s lede that Kal Penn had been ARRESTED when the actor-turned-politico-turned actor had actually been MUGGED (at least we got it right in the article’s body). Despite Kal’s close association with certain [...]
Paddy Johnson, a Brooklyn-based writer, runs the Art Fag City website. Johnson recently issued a correction/retraction for a post, and it’s more of a “I made a mistake but my larger point still stands” offering: I made a mistake. Yesterday I wrote a post complaining that Marc Schiller had received payment for the marketing he [...]
In last Sunday’s article ‘Gore takes cash for water campaign from chemical firm’ we stated that Al Gore’s environmental organisation had taken money from a chemical company for the Life Earth Water events taking place last week. Neither Al Gore nor his philanthropic organization, the Alliance for Climate protection, are associated with, or sponsored, the [...]
