Several corrections have been issued for articles published on 15 August. An article about Thames Water’s desalination plant stated that the UK’s only such facility was in Beckton, east London. In fact, there is also a desalination plant in the Isles of Scilly.
Image and Quote Errors
An image captioned as “the mod look in 1975” actually showed the band Slade from behind during their skinhead phase in 1970. This error appeared in print only.
A piece about writer Samuel Beckett quoted two entries from his notebooks in German. These entries had actually been written in English.
Other Amended Articles
Other recently amended articles include pieces on anxiety over war, wildfires and cyber-attacks leading to growth in cash stocks in the EU; a rock star welcome and human rights protests greeting India’s prime minister Narendra Modi in Australia; a Como mayor banning bikes in the city centre after being hit “by one of these beasts”; a retrospective on Paul Simon’s Graceland at 40; a personal account of falling 12 metres and smashing a pelvis; and a review of the teen drama Sterling Point.
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