Tag Archives: the times (south africa)

Paper gives woman HIV

September 17, 2009 – 8:00 am

timesSAIN AN article published on September 10 “Man ‘listens to heart’ and helps mother feed twins”, we stated that Amy Pillay was HIV-positive. She is HIV-negative.
We regret the error, which occurred during editing.

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Apology

March 3, 2008 – 8:00 am

Last week in Gwen Gill’s “Top Billing bash had everything except the buzz” an editing error implied that Patrick Schofield was looking around after his marriage ended. The reference should have been to Tumisho Masha. We apologise for the error. Link

Thanks, Anne!

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Frogmouth and his lovely voice

February 4, 2008 – 8:00 am

Also last week, in “An opening night bash to Thai for”, we complimented Jonathan Roxmouth on his beautiful voice. Unfortunately, we called him Jonathan Frogmouth. We apologise for the error.

And:

We apologise to Kate Moss for any distress caused by our article last week regarding alleged events at her birthday party at the Dorchester Hotel in London. The story, which was first published in News of the World, was untrue. The News of the World has apologised and paid substantial damages to Moss. In its apology, News of the World said it had been offered information from a usually reliable source, which it now accepted was untrue. Link to both

Thanks, Anne!

Correction March 5: The image accompanying this post was originally that of the The Times, rather than the Sunday Times. Thanks, Joe!

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