ON 17 July 2008 in our front page article “Ron the Lash” we falsely reported that whilst recovering from an operation to his ankle Cristiano Ronaldo had “gone on a bender” at a Hollywood nightclub where he splashed out pounds 10,000 on champagne and vodka and threw his crutches to the ground and tried to dance on his uninjured foot.
We now accept that Cristiano did not “go on a bender”, did not drink any alcohol that evening, did not spend pounds 10,000 on alcohol, nor throw his crutches to the floor or try to dance.
We also accept that he did not act irresponsibly nor jeopardise his recovery and in fact made a full recovery from his injury in record time. We apologise to him for the embarrassment and offence caused and have agreed to pay him substantial damages and his legal costs. Link
Our report (”400 Trash Eur4M Villa”, 30 March 2008) said that Amanda Hudson’s home on the Costa del Sol had been trashed by teenagers attending her daughter’s 16th birthday party, who had also stolen property.
OUR report (”GBP 4M villa trashed by party-crashers”, 30 May 2008) said that Amanda Hudson’s home on the Costa del Sol had been trashed by teenagers attending her daughter’s 16th birthday party, who had also stolen property. We now accept that these allegations were untrue. We apologise to Amanda for the embarrassment caused.
AN article on 30 May 2008 ‘Trail of destruction at £4.4m villa after 400 crash Facebook party’ suggested that Amanda Hudson failed to exercise parental control over her daughter’s 16th birthday party and that her property was badly damaged by drunken teenagers. We accept that these allegations were untrue and we apologise to Amanda Hudson for any embarrassment caused.
Frankie Vaughan was not celebrating his 81st birthday yesterday. The singing legend died in September 1999 (Page 37, February 3).
ON September 11, 2006 we published an article headed: Squalor. Inside spy Donaldson’s lonely death cottage finally revealed.
On Wednesday November 26 last we reported on the previous day’s sentences of Francisco Notorantonio and other individuals with reference to the manslaughter of Gerard Devlin on February 3, 2006.
ON March 22 we published a story which we claimed to be an exclusive both in the newspaper and on our website stating that Roman Abramovich was drawing up a secret hit list of potential managers and had authorised the sounding out of Turkey boss Fatih Terim.
ON 26 May last under the headline “2nd Bus Test for O’Brien” we published a report concerning John O’Brien, the husband of the late Meg Walsh, who had been acquitted of her murder, in which he was described as a wife-beater.
WE over-estimated the number of Somalis living in Sheffield. There are closer to 5,000 than the 250,000 we said (Page 25, April 24). 
IN our report on Thursday concerning an incident involving a Translink bus which collided with a bus shelter, we referred to a second incident involving an unmanned bus which mounted a pavement and struck a pedestrian.
IN his column on 13 September 2007, Brian Reade compared Sir Andrew Green and Migrationwatch UK to the Nazi party and the Ku Klux Klan.
PROF Ian Gilmore wants patients to be made, not paid, to tell their doctors how much they drink. (Page 17, November 14). 
