• Alex Malcolm was the name of the five-year-old boy killed by his mother’s partner in 2016, not Alex Martin, as a comment piece said (What will it take to stop the rape and murder of women by men on probation?, 5 February, p39).
• An article (They kept 1,000 slaves. Now this family is paying up and saying sorry, 5 February, p3) gave a figure of “about £20m” as the equivalent today of £26,898 received in 1834. Methods of calculating relative value are complex and can result in very different figures, but the Bank of England’s inflation calculator says the equivalent sum would be about £2.7m. Also, Wallington Hall was remodelled by the Trevelyan family, but not built by them as the piece said.
• Britishvolt, which entered administration last month, planned to build a battery factory near Blyth, Northumberland, not “in Teesside”(In the global race to dominate green technology, Britain is still tying its shoelaces, 5 February, p35).
