• An editing error led an article (Locking vulnerable children up is moral failure, says top judge, 9 June, p20) to say that the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, refused to go to court when ordered to do so by Sir Andrew McFarlane. In fact, she asked to be excused and when that request was refused she sent a representative. Also, McFarlane was the former top family judge for England and Wales, not just England.
• An article about Ukip was wrong to state that the party had only ever had one MP, Douglas Carswell (In the seat where he exposed Brexit faultlines, Farage is talk of the town, 9 June, p8). Carswell, who had defected from the Conservatives, became Ukip’s first elected MP, in Clacton, in October 2014, but he was closely followed by Mark Reckless, who also defected from the Tories and won the seat of Rochester and Strood that November.
• The radio presenter Adele Roberts is from Southport, not Stockport (This much I know, 5 May, Magazine, p7).
• Muddled waters: Forde Abbey, Chard, was built on the flood plain of the River Axe, not the River Exe (Westward bound, 9 June, Magazine, p34).
Other recently amended articles include:
Judges are sick of locking up children who just need help. Why has nothing been done?
Revealed: king’s arms hidden on 1776 call for US independence
Centre forward: Sunderland sets sights on a revival by bringing homes and jobs to its inner city
‘We could be in 2006 again’: Germany recalls glory days as it hosts Euro 2024
Macron welcomes Biden for US state visit with Arc de Triomphe ceremony
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