ON 11 April, 2008, in a report of a meeting of the Donegal Irish Farmers’ Association, addressed by Garda Sgt Paul Wallace on the subject of farm security published, we wrongly stated that Garda Wallace had commended Mayo farmer Padraig Nally for the way in which he defended his property. We accept that we mistook [...]
WE were wrong to report that Sam Griffiths was drunk when he was electrocuted running across railway tracks at Burgess Hill, West Sussex, in the early hours of New Year’s Day, or that he had drunk five cans of beer. The coroner at his inquest concluded that Sam and his friends were “merry as you [...]
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, [...]
DARTS champion Phil Taylor is known as “The Power”, not “The Force”. (Page 19, February 9). Link Report an error
Frankie Vaughan was not celebrating his 81st birthday yesterday. The singing legend died in September 1999 (Page 37, February 3). Report an error
SONNY Bono died in 1998, not 1929 (Page 2, January 5). Report an error
ON September 11, 2006 we published an article headed: Squalor. Inside spy Donaldson’s lonely death cottage finally revealed. The article was illustrated by several photographs of the interior of the cottage. We accept that the photographs were taken in circum stances that breached the right to privacy of the owners of the cottage. We apologise [...]
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. One of the photographs used to illustrate the report was of a group of four men, captioned to indicate that they were at Laganside Courthouse [...]
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. We now accept that Mr Abramovich had authorised [...]
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. The report was illustrated by a photograph captioned to identify the subject as John [...]
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). Link Report an error
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. We incorrectly stated that this second incident occurred last week. In fact it happened in 2005. We are happy [...]
CONTRARY to an agency report in Tuesday’s paper, Annie Lennox has not been “dumped” by Sony BMG. She is currently negotiating a new contract with the company, renewing a successful 25-year relationship. We apologise for the error. Link Report an error
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. We accept that the allegations were untrue. We sincerely regret any distress caused to Sir Andrew and have agreed to pay him damages and costs. Link Report an error
ON November 6, in our report under the headline “Put the brakes on child killers” concerning’ the launch of National Road Safety Week and the campaign by road safety charity Brake to enforce 20mph zones around schools and homes, reference was made to the death of Gareth Ellesmere who died when he fell under a [...]
PROF Ian Gilmore wants patients to be made, not paid, to tell their doctors how much they drink. (Page 17, November 14). Link Report an error
ON February 4 as part of the article “Give Us Heist Suspect You Get Bomb Plotter”, we claimed that Mohamed Karbouzi (a variation of the English spelling of Mohammed El Guerbouzi) was the alleged ringleader of the 2003 Casablanca suicide bombings and was wanted for questioning by Spanish police in connection with the 2004 Madrid [...]
Following the publication of an interview with Glenda Gilson on 11 September 2006, Ms Gilson contacted us to state that the words published on the front page: ‘I haven’t had sex for four months’ were not words used by her.While we accept that these precise words were not used by Ms Gilson we believe that [...]
On 12 August we named Amjad Sarwar (pictured above) as one of the suspects who had been arrested in the recent terrorist plots to blow up numerous passenger aircraft, and also published his photograph.We wish to make clear that this suggestion was false, and Mr Sarwar has not been arrested nor questioned in connection with [...]
