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 [...]
Although the General Medical Council found that Professors Simon Murch and John Walker-Smith, former colleagues of Andrew Wakefield, had failed in their duties as responsible consultants such that they continue to face charges of serious professional misconduct (“Fall of ‘dishonest’ doctor who started MMR scare”, January 29), it did not find them dishonest or, in [...]
The caption to a photograph on page 7 of Saturday’s Times wrongly stated that it showed Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, when it was actually Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, former ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates. Link Report an error
We have been asked to make clear that Edgar Wright’s appreciation of Edward Woodward, which appeared in the paper on Tuesday, November 17, was abridged and the full version can be read at www.edgarwrighthere.com/2009/11/edward-woodward-1930-2009/ Link Actually, the paper was asked to acknowledge the fact that it took Wright’s blog post and published an excerpt of [...]
On November 5 we translated the name of Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s artwork at the National Gallery, The Hoerengracht, as ‘Gentlemen’s Canal’. This should have read ‘Whore’s Canal’. We apologise for the error. Report an error
Keva McKibbin ("Modern Weddings", Magazine, August 22) did not say that she was "blown off her face" when she first met her husband, but that she was "blown off her feet". We apologise for any embarrassment caused by our reporter’s mishearing. Report an error
Our report "Jools Holland’s castle joins band of at-risk monuments" (June 23) referred to Saltwood Castle in Kent and its owner Jane Clark, who has succeeded in having Saltwood removed from English Heritage’s at-risk register. The information and quotes about Saltwood were taken from an article by Robin Stummer in the latest edition of Cornerstone, [...]
This a bit meta. Giles Hattersley wrote an article for the Sunday Times (London) that reported Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales would soon make “a controversial proposal to ensure that changes to the most popular wiki-pages are vetted before they go live.” The goal of the proposal was to help reduce factual errors and vandalism on the [...]
Correction On Jnuary 20 we published a story headed “Sheikh overturns tribunal decision”, referring to an appeal decision involving Sheikh Maher al-Tajir. We have been asked to point out that it was Lady Smith, sitting with two lay members, who overturned the decision of the employment tribunal. We did not intend to suggest that the [...]
Contrary to our report “Baird’s original dream goes down the tube as the last British television factory closes” (January 14), Toshiba has asked us to point out that it is still making large-screen televisions at its Plymouth factory. We are happy to set the record straight. Report an error
Rose Wild writes a fascinating blog about the treasures found within the archives of the Times (U.K.). She recently went hunting for corrections (or errata*, as they used to be known) and turned up some examples from the 18th and 19th centuries. “The cryptic way they’re worded doesn’t seem to have changed much in 200-odd [...]
The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade took note of this Times clarification: In the Media Business section on Friday July 4 Dan Sabbagh drew a parallel between the Telegraph Group and Trinity Mirror, which has a £1.5bn pension fund and has a debt liability of approximately £425m. The Telegraph Group has asked us to make clear that [...]
In Weekend TV (times2, May 5) we incorrectly suggested that David Gest had been given herpes by Liza Minnelli on their wedding night. This was entirely wrong. David Gest has never had the disease and has never actually accused Ms Minnelli of giving it to him. We apologise to Mr Gest for any embarrassment or [...]
Yesterday we referred inaccurately to the case of Joanne and Natasha Coombs in an article (Reunited in death, News) which also transposed their names. Both died on the same stretch of railway last year. While Joanne Coombs committed suicide, an inquest jury returned the verdict that the death of her teenage daughter, Natasha, was accidental. [...]
The London Times has a laugh at the expense of Loaded magazine: Apology of the month comes from Loaded, the little boys’ magazine, which somehow persuaded itself that Heinz once supplied the Nazi regime with a version of alphabet spaghetti consisting of tiny swastikas. This is an urban myth. “We now accept that Heinz has [...]
We may owe an apology to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Last month we dubbed it “Whitehall’s answer to Sir Elton John” after it emerged that it had spent £ 46,000 on pot plants in two years. Now we learn that staff at the Department for Children, Schools and Families spent £ 78,000 [...]
In two articles published last year (“Cyanide fear triggered terror raid” and “Bomb suspect ‘shot without warning’”, June 4) we stated that government officials had said Abul Koyair, the brother of Abdul Kahar (who was shot by police when they raided the family home on June 2) had a number of criminal convictions and that [...]
We’ve been cataloging the apologies offered to Morien Jones by UK newspapers (read one of the apologies for some background), and now there are a few more to add to the pile. Actually, a lot more. We can’t recall another recent UK story that caused so many apologies. Read the previous apology from the Yorkshire [...]
