Corrections and Clarifications

May 11, 2023
In “Clock ticking on Wasps’ new start” (sport, May 10) we mistakenly reported that The Wasps Legends Charitable Foundation was thought to have provided working capital when the club was bought out of administration. It did not. We apologise for the error.

May 10, 2023
An arrest photographed during the coronation was not that of Graham Smith, leader of the anti-monarchy group Republic, as our caption wrongly said (news, May 8).

May 8, 2023
We wrongly referred to Commander Allan Tarver as an RAF pilot (obituary, May 3). Commander Tarver served with the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm. We apologise for the error.

April 28,2023
A photograph showed the King presenting new colours to the Life Guards, not to the Royal Navy as our caption wrongly said (News, April 28).

April 27, 2023
Just Stop Oil’s avowed aim is for the government to stop licensing all new oil, gas and coal projects, not to force an immediate halt to all use of fossil fuels as we said (leading article, Apr 27).

April 26, 2023
Lord (Narendra) Patel is expected to carry the sovereign’s ring at the coronation, not Lord (Kamlesh) Patel of Bradford as we wrongly suggested in some editions (news, Apr 24).

We reported the results of polling by River Action UK (“Tackling river pollution could bring flood of votes”, news, Apr 25). We have since been made aware that YouGov gave the charity access to its polling panel on the understanding that results would not be made public, as they were not properly weighted and the questions were not approved by YouGov. We are happy to make this clear.

April 19, 2023
Sir Nicholas Bonsor served as chairman of the British Field Sports Society, not the British Association for Shooting and Conservation as we wrongly said (Obituary, Apr 8).

April 14, 2023
We said junior doctors’ pay rises with each year of training (News, Apr 13). In fact, their pay scale includes four rises during training that typically takes five to ten years.

April 3, 2023
Member states of the CPTPP trade bloc include Brunei, not Borneo as we wrongly said (leading article, Apr 1).

April 1, 2023
The Balaji family featured in “Dream holiday ruined, but Opodo won’t pay up” (Money, Mar 26) have since learnt that the £1,310 they thought they were owed had been repaid. We are happy to put the record straight.

The picture used to illustrate an article on José Antonio Primo de Rivera (world news, Mar 31) showed his father, Miguel.

March 30, 2023
The culture secretary is Lucy Frazer, not Michelle Donelan as we wrongly said (News, Mar 29).

March 27, 2023
We wrongly reported in an obituary of the fencer Allan Jay (March 22) that he had been briefly engaged to Vanessa Salmon (who later married Nigel Lawson). We are happy to set the record straight and apologise for the mistake.

March 23, 2023
We wrongly said Graham Stanton had been charged with manslaughter (news, print edition, Mar 20). In fact he has been charged with failing to render assistance after a boat accident in the British Virgin Islands.

March 21, 2023
The dividend yields published in our share price listing pages (Business) were found last month to contain errors. We have temporarily suspended publication of this data while our supplier identifies and resolves the problem. As soon as we are satisfied that the data supplied to us is correct, publication will be resumed. We apologise for any inconvenience in the meantime.

March 17, 2023
We wrongly said that customers of the energy firm Utilita had to pay by direct debit (News, Mar 16). In fact it is a pay-as-you-go specialist.

March 14, 2023
We said all the UK’s nuclear submarines were built at Barrow-in-Furness (Business, Mar 13). In fact three were built at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead.

March 10, 2023
We wrongly described Nicola Fox as Nasa’s new chief scientist (News, Mar 6) instead of head of science.

March 9, 2023
We wrongly said RL Stine had censored some of his Goosebumps books (news, Mar 3). In fact they were changed without his knowledge.

March 3, 2023
A report about a House of Lords debate on the National Security Bill (news, Mar 2) referred to Lord (Guy) Black of Brentwood, deputy chairman of the Telegraph Media Group, as Lord Black of Crossharbour. We apologise for the mistake, which was introduced in editing.

February 29, 2023
On February 24 we reported that Ronesans was the constructor of a 12-storey residence in Antakya that collapsed in the earthquake. This was incorrect and we apologise for the error. The 12-storey residence was in fact constructed by an entity that has no connection to Ronesans Holding.

February 28, 2023
Michael Rosen has asked us to correct or clarify a number of points in his interview (Weekend, Feb 25). He did not use the words “sensitivity reader”. While he said he would not himself now use the words “fat” and “ugly”, he did not comment on whether they should be in other books for children. He was re-enacting cowboy films a few years after the Holocaust, not “a couple of decades”. He did not say he had worked with the Dahl family. His YouTube readings have had 128.5 million views, not 300-400 million. He has done what he can to get antisemitic “remixes” of his videos removed from YouTube. His wife is a trainee case worker, not an immigration lawyer. We are happy to put the record straight and apologise for the mistakes.

We wrongly said that the Winnie-the-Pooh books had fallen out of copyright (Saturday Review, Feb 25). In fact AA Milne’s books Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six all remain in copyright in the UK and much of the rest of the world.

February 20, 2023
Our brief summary of a news story on house prices was unclear, wrongly suggesting they had risen only £14 in a year (Feb 20). As the full story explained, reported figures indicate that on average prices rose by £14 in the last month. The rise over a year was £13,648. We apologise for the confusion.

February 19, 2023
We reported that the rower Miriam Payne, 23, had set a new Atlantic record (Feb 18). We have been asked to make clear that this was a new race record for the fastest solo female in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, not a world record. The world record for the fastest solo female Atlantic crossing is held by the rower Victoria Evans.

February 15, 2023
A letter said John Christie was convicted of the murders of Beryl and Geraldine Evans (Feb 11). He was not, although he did at his own trial admit to killing Beryl Evans.

February 11, 2023
We wrongly reported that the average New Zealand house price rose 45.7 per cent from $1.937 million at the start of the pandemic to $2.717 million in October 2021, and has fallen 11.1 per cent since then to $2.416 million (Bricks & Mortar, Feb 10). In fact the median house price rose 43.3 per cent from $628,000 at the start of the pandemic to $900,000 in October 2021, and has since fallen 12.2 per cent to $790,000.

February 8, 2023
On January 26 we reported that Tim Martin, of JD Wetherspoon, was criticised for telling his employees to “go to work at Tesco” while pubs were closed during the pandemic. Mr Martin told employees that supermarkets needed staff in the pandemic, that staff offered that work could take it and that they would be given priority at JD Wetherspoon should they return. We are happy to make that clear and apologise to JD Wetherspoon and Mr Martin for the error.

January 26, 2023
Because of an editing error, an article about French unions shutting ski lifts wrongly referred to the Ski World Cup instead of the World Ski Championships in Courchevel and Méribel, and gave the dates as March 16-20 rather than February 6-19 (news, Jan 25).

January 23, 2023
We wrongly suggested (business, Jan 19) that Topps Tiles had expressed quality concerns about Cersanit’s products.

January 20, 2023
We wrongly reported that an independent review of the actions of the Western Front Association over the censuring of Jonathan D’Hooghe only followed as a result of the annual meeting of branch chairmen (news, Dec 28). In fact it was already under way by that time. The charity has also asked us to make clear that Mr D’Hooghe was removed as a trustee within two weeks of the first complaint being received. We are happy to put this on record and apologise for the mistake.

January 13, 2023
The headline and picture captions that accompanied an article published on January 11 (Business) incorrectly stated that the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church is involved in a High Court case over cancelled PPE deals and that the Church was awarded a £100 million contract. The litigation is concerned with contracts awarded to companies with links to the Church. We apologise for the error.

January 12, 2023
A report on a planning dispute (news, Dec 29) was wrongly illustrated with a photograph of a property previously owned by the couple involved. We apologise for the error.

January 9, 2023
We wrongly referred to the crown prince of Sweden (leading article, Jan 7). The heir apparent to the Swedish throne is Crown Princess Victoria.

January 5, 2023
We said that nearly half the ski runs in Zermatt were closed (news, Jan 3). In fact the closed slopes are “off-piste” runs. More than 240km of slopes are open, including the downhill runs to the village. We are happy to make this clear.

January 2, 2023
Our story “BBC pays out £127m in golden goodbyes amid staff exodus” (News, Dec 31) was accompanied by photographs of Andrew Marr, Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel. In fact none of the pictured journalists received a severance payment from the BBC. We are happy to make this clear and apologise for any confusion caused.

December 30, 2022
We said those without a valid asylum claim would be deported to Rwanda (News, Oct 18). In fact the policy applies to those deemed to have arrived in the UK by an inadmissible route.

December 29, 2022
We said a freeze on tax thresholds would cost £40,000 a year for a family with two earners on a combined household income of £60,000 (leading article, Dec 27). In fact the freeze would cost £40,000 over a decade for families with two earners on £60,000 each.

December 28, 2022
We reported information from a security source stating that 180 stewards worked at Asake’s first two concerts at Brixton Academy, dropping to 120 or 130 on the third show (news, Dec 23). The Academy has informed us that the number of security staff on duty was 171 for the first show, 152 for the second and 158 for the third. We are happy to put this on record.

In an article on December 27 entitled “Short sellers prepare to swoop on big retailers”, we named Majestic Wine as one of those companies targeted by short sellers. This was incorrect and we apologise for the error.

December 23, 2022
We wrongly suggested that the military was due to stand in for firefighters (leading article, Dec 19). In fact no strikes have been announced by the fire service.

We wrongly reported that the Royal Astronomical Society had called James Webb a bigot (news, Dec 21). The society is still deliberating on accusations against him.

December 19, 2022
We said in a headline that Lady Susan Hussey had apologised for making “racist remarks” to Ngozi Fulani (news, Dec 17). It was wrong of us to characterise her exchange with Ms Fulani in this way. We apologise to Lady Susan for the mistake and for any distress caused.

December 17, 2022
We said that “the government is set to gain more control over the country’s newspapers when guidelines for journalists from the Information Commissioner’s Office [ICO] become law, making it a de facto regulator of the press” (leading article, Dec 14). The ICO has asked us to clarify that as an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, its independence is set out in law.

December 10, 2022
The wrong picture was used to accompany the review of Mandela at the Young Vic (First Night, Dec 9). We apologise for the error.

December 6, 2022
The first Sunday of Advent was November 27, not December 4 as we wrongly said (Comment, Dec 5).

December 2, 2022
We said the Planning Inspectorate’s verdict on the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station was “wrong project on the wrong site” (comment, Nov 28). We have been asked to make clear that this was our characterisation of the verdict and the Inspectorate did not use those words. Its recommendation against proceeding with the project was mainly based on concerns about water supply strategy and habitat regulations.
We reported the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, as saying that the British Army needs to be properly funded as it is only big enough to “stay at home and do a bit of tootling around” (news, Nov 25). Mr Wallace’s words were taken out of context. What he said was, “If we just want to stay at home and do a little bit of tootling around, we’ve got an armed forces big enough.” His point, set out in the rest of the interview, was that we need funding for our armed forces to meet any threat that may arise and to match the ambition of the prime minister of the day, whatever it may be. We are happy to make this clear.

November 30, 2022
Government sources indicate that new insulation grants are expected to be worth up to £1,500, not £15,000 as we reported (news, Nov 25). The figure has yet to be officially announced.

November 25, 2022
In an article published on October 31, 2022, concerning Gabriele Giambrone (“Lawyer banned amid mafia claims called to Bar”) we asserted that in 2013 he was removed from the solicitors’ register amid allegations that he had laundered cash for the IRA and the mafia. We accept that this was incorrect and apologise to Mr Giambrone for the mistake.

November 24, 2022
We wrongly described Sahran Abeysundara as the owner of The Silkroad, an interior design company in Haslemere, Surrey (Autumn statement, Nov 18). Mr Abeysundara is an interior designer for the company. We apologise for the confusion.

November 23, 2022
A review of the opera Chornobyldorf was wrongly illustrated with a photo of Opera-dystopia GAZ, a different production from the same writer and director (Times2, Nov 21).

November 19, 2022
An article about the discovery of a medieval gold ring in Dorset (news, Nov 16) was wrongly accompanied by a picture of a silver ring offered by the same auction house.

November 18, 2022
A message posted on Matt Hancock’s app by Mic Wright, using the name brokenbottleboy, was not intended to be supportive of the MP, as we said in a caption (News, Nov 16).

November 16, 2022
An obituary of Sir Erich Reich contained errors (Register, Nov 12). His eldest daughter is named Rameet, not Renata; he came to England aged four, not three; his middle name was Arieh, not Areih; and his sister-in-law had three sons, not two. We apologise for the mistakes.

November 11, 2022
The government has proposed a new coalmine, not a new coal-fired power station as we wrongly said (leading article, Nov 9).

November 2, 2022
We wrongly reported that Andrew Bridgen MP had questioned why “the [coronavirus] vaccine was given to people who had natural immunity because they had probably contracted the virus” (news, Oct 31). What Mr Bridgen actually said was: “Unlike any other vaccine, the Covid vaccine was given to people who had natural immunity because they had provably contracted the virus. Why were those people vaccinated?” We apologise for the mistake.

November 1, 2022
We stated that the journalist Catherine Belton was successfully sued by Petr Aven (“Sanctioned oligarch has £60k allowance”, news, Oct 31). In fact Mr Aven’s complaint about Ms Belton’s book did not reach court and was settled by very minor changes to the text. Our apologies.

October 27, 2022
A photograph of actors from the new series of The Crown showed Timothee Sambor, who plays Prince William in early episodes, not Rufus Kampa as the caption wrongly said (News, Oct 15).

October 25, 2022
We wrongly described Island Bakery lemon melts biscuits as dairy-free (Magazine, Oct 22). They contain milk and butter.

October 24, 2022
We said in a headline that Nigeria had banished white models from adverts (world, Aug 26). In fact, as the accompanying article explained, the ban extends to all foreigners, regardless of colour. We are happy to make this clear.

October 15, 2022
We reported (World News, Oct 13, and leading article, Oct 14) that Interpol was failing to issue red notices against Russians suspected of war crimes. Interpol has asked us to make clear that it has no authority to issue red notices unilaterally but that it has, at the request of member countries and international tribunals, issued red notices for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes since 1994.

October 12, 2022
An article on the energy consumption of appliances (Money, Oct 8) contained inaccurate figures. Running an electric oven for 90 minutes would typically cost about 37p, not £3.78; and running a slow cooker for six hours on a high setting would typically use about 0.96kWh of electricity, not 0.48kWh.

The wealth management company Quilter has £98.7 billion of assets under management, not £98.7 million as we wrongly said (Business, Oct 11).

October 11, 2022
In a business commentary (“Big Mike switches to back-seat driver”, Sep 21) we suggested that Mike Ashley’s brother was paid £11 million for overseas deliveries. We are happy to clarify that although Mr Ashley proposed his brother receive £11 million this was not in relation to the latter’s delivery company and the payment did not take place because it was blocked by shareholders.

October 10, 2022
Marc Agar, who is suing the US businessman Maciek Kaminski, has never been a business partner of Mr Kaminski’s son as we wrongly reported (Sport, Oct 8).

October 7, 2022
We reported (Business, Oct 7) that the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service had found proven aspects of six complaints over unnecessary shoulder operations against a doctor at Spire Parkway in Solihull. In fact the tribunal found the allegations of unnecessary operations unproven.

October 6, 2022
The rugby player Cliff Morgan was a fly half, not a scrum half as we wrongly said (Register, Oct 4).

October 3, 2022
The unit price of domestic electricity was capped at 34p per kWh from October 1, not 52p per kWh as we wrongly said (News, Sep 30).

September 30, 2022
In our preview of Michael Palin: Into Iraq (Viewing Guide, Sep 24 and Sep 27) we referred to an Isis massacre of 1,700 Sunni cadets. Those murdered were Shia Muslims. We apologise for the error.

September 17, 2022
At the moment of her coronation the Queen wore St Edward’s Crown, not the Imperial State Crown as a caption wrongly said (Magazine, Sep 17).

September 16, 2022
Our report “King warned he could face ‘rush for the Commonwealth door’ ” (News, Sep 13) included comments from Philip Murphy, whom we described as director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. In fact Mr Murphy has stepped down from the role.

September 13, 2022
A photograph showed members of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, not the Royal Company of Archers as the caption wrongly said (News, Sep 12).

September 7, 2022
The barrister Henry Hendron represented Nadine Dorries in a civil matter against Labour Party aides in 2009, not when she was accused of smearing a rival during the 2015 election campaign, as we wrongly reported (“Barrister who represented Nadine Dorries appears on drug charges”, News, Aug 26).

Our article “Sperm donors target women for sex” (News, Scotland, Sep 6) included an interview with Anthony Fletcher. We would like to make clear Mr Fletcher has never been accused of coercing women in sex and he does not use a pseudonym.

September 6, 2022
Our leading article “Bigoted Minority” (Comment, Scotland, Aug 18) overstated the number of Alba supporters at a Conservative hustings in Perth on August 16.

September 2, 2022
As a result of a printing error, copies of our September 1 edition distributed in the Channel Islands repeated two pages from earlier in the week. We apologise for the mistake.

We said research on mental health surveys found that children revealed more to robots than to adults (“Robots better than adults at getting children to spill secrets”, news, Sep 1). In fact the research compared responses to robots with self-reported surveys. We apologise for the error.

August 30, 2022
We gave incorrect information on the cost of cavity wall insulation (News and Money, Aug 27). The Energy Saving Trust estimates that the cost for a semi-detached house is £1,200.

Three objects pictured in our story “Chinese treasures left to British Museum” (News, Aug 29) are to be sold at Sotheby’s, not donated to the museum as the caption implied.

August 24, 2022
A recipe for marbled ice cream loaf cake which used self-raising flour was wrongly described as gluten-free (Magazine, Aug 20).

August 23, 2022
The Conservative Party’s head of campaigning during the 1992 general election was Sir Anthony Garrett, not Mark Fullbrook as we wrongly said (News, Aug 20).

The School of Sexuality Education does not run any activity asking children to Google and then draw masturbating animals, as we wrongly claimed (Comment, Jul 1).

August 19, 2022
A review of Gaia Vince’s Nomad Century (Books, Aug 13) said the author “conveyed the idea that a not quite so bad climatic future is foreclosed to us”. This was an incorrect characterisation, for which we apologise.

August 18, 2022
Reporting a dispute between Dr Martyn Percy and Christ Church, Oxford, we conflated allegations made by the college against him with a later claim brought by a member of the cathedral staff who accused him of sexual harassment. The claim was settled separately to his dispute with Christ Church. We apologise for the confusion (“Oxford dean Martyn Percy given £1.2m payoff is accused of ‘untrue’ claims”, News, May 28).

August 16, 2022
A report of a service of thanksgiving for the Queen carried the headline “Praise for Queen brings six living ex-PMs together” (News, Jun 4). In fact five former prime ministers and the serving prime minister, Boris Johnson, attended the service.

August 12, 2022
We wrongly said the average household uses 142 litres of water each day (News, Aug 10). This is the average usage per person.

August 10, 2022
The nearest station to our Clwydian mountains cycling route (Weekend, Aug 6) is at Penyffordd, ten miles away, not Ruthin as we wrongly said.

August 8, 2022
A review of Thomas Grant’s The Mandela Brief (Books, Jul 16) wrongly disputed Nelson Mandela’s qualifications to practise as an attorney and unfairly criticised accurate accounts of the dissolution of the Liberal Party, the outcome of the 1948 South African election and the founding of the African National Congress. The inquest into the death of Steve Biko was in 1977, not 1978 as the reviewer incorrectly said. We are happy to put the record straight.

July 29, 2022
Our obituary of the art dealer Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts (Register, Jul 28) was accompanied by a photograph of the gallery owner Antonia Jannone, supplied in error by a picture agency. We apologise for the mistake.

July 28, 2022
Because of an editing error, one of the Metropolitan Police officers whose reinstatement the force had tried to block was wrongly named as Shabnam Chaudhri in “Met blocked from sacking two officers” (news, Jul 27). The officer in question is Asweina Gutty. We apologise for the confusion.

The Right Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, is the son of a police officer, not a former officer himself as stated in our article “Secular Scotland feels little need for God, warns Kirk moderator” (Scottish edition, news, Jul 23).

July 23, 2022
Because of an editing error, we wrongly said that Mizanur Rahman had compared Israel to “white supremacy” during an anti-racism lesson for civil servants in 2019 (“Cabinet Office anti-racism trainer wished death on ‘Zionists’ ”, report, Nov 26, 2021). In fact he drew the comparison on Twitter in 2014. Mr Rahman has asked us to make clear that it no longer represents his view.

July 19, 2022
Our article “How to tell if solar panels will pay off” (Money, Jul 9) said a typical three-bedroom home uses 10kWH of electricity in five days. In fact the average home uses about 10kWH per day. It also wrongly suggested that solar thermal panels generate electricity. Photovoltaic cells do so: thermal cells produce hot water and heating for the home.

July 18, 2022
A photograph of Christine Lagarde (Business, Jul 16) was wrongly captioned Ursula von der Leyen. Our apologies.

July 12, 2022
Our article “How to tell if solar panels will pay off” (Money, Jul 9) said a typical three-bedroom home uses 10kWH of electricity in five days. In fact the average home uses about 10kWH per day. It also wrongly suggested that solar thermal panels generate electricity. Photovoltaic cells do so: thermal cells produce hot water and heating for the home.

July 11, 2022
We reported that the refurbishment of Boris Johnson’s flat above 11 Downing Street had cost £200,000 (News, July 8). The design company Soane has informed us that the document on which our report was based was an estimate, not an invoice, and that many of the items listed were not included in the final work.

July 7, 2022
Our article “Health-drive warning after man overdoses on vitamin D” (news, July 6) gave measurements in milligrams (mg) rather than micrograms (mcg) and wrongly gave the recommended daily intake as 600mg. The NHS recommends a daily supplement of 10 micrograms for adults in autumn and winter.

July 5, 2022
A story on the effects of the death of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, was wrongly illustrated with a photograph of Prince Albert Victor, her grandson (News, Jul 2).

July 2, 2022
Harriet Harman has not called the prime minister a proven liar, as we wrongly said (news, June 30). We apologise for the mistake, which was introduced in editing.

June 29, 2022
A review of Scottish police conducted by Dame Elish Angiolini was not connected directly to the fatal arrest of Sheku Bayoh (“Police in race row over death of ‘Scotland’s George Floyd’ ”, news, Jun 27). Two of the officers have since retired on the grounds of ill-health.

The Competition and Markets Authority has not cleared CVS Group to buy Quality Pet Care as stated in Business (Jun 28).

June 28, 2022
A graphic that appeared in some tablet editions was misleading (news, Jun 27). Contrary to the figures shown, a poll found that 51 per cent of Conservative voters wanted Boris Johnson to remain prime minister in a year’s time, 36 per cent would prefer someone else and 13 per cent did not know.

June 22, 2022
Due to a calculation error, some figures in our article “More than 90% of staff work from home at some councils” (news, Jun 20) were inaccurate. The correct percentages of council staff working from home were 91 in Wiltshire, 89 in Bradford and 79 in Buckinghamshire; and the average across all councils who responded was 81. In Buckinghamshire, an average of 514 staff attended the office.

We wrongly said that one in four Conservative MPs voted to remove Boris Johnson from office (news, Jun 18). In fact 148 cast a vote of no confidence, 41 per cent of the total.

June 21, 2022
Contrary to our headline “Mental care hubs to help students after suicides rise” (news, Jun 20), overall rates of student suicide have not increased in recent years. The suicide rate among students in England and Wales is lower than that for the general population of a similar age.

June 20, 2022
A disabled man who died at Gatwick was not left stranded on a plane, as we reported (news, June 17). He had not requested help for himself and was making his own way to the terminal when the accident happened.

Ted Hughes died in October 1998, not November as we wrongly said (news, Jun 18).

We have been asked to make clear that the upper car pictured in our article “Cobra carmaker bites back against replicas” (news, Jun 16) was a 22-year-old model worth about £100,000, not the Cobra 427 that sold for $5.9 million at auction.

June 17, 2022
Alex Renton’s article about abuse in private schools (Times2, June 15) stated that Eton’s safeguarding policy was out of date. The college has informed us that until this week online searches led to its old policy, and that it has now updated its website. We are happy to make this clear.

June 16, 2022
In our report on the sacking of two Royal Navy officers (“Submarine officers’ affair was national security risk”, News, Jun 15) we mistakenly referred to the court martial’s prosecuting officer, Commander Peter Barker, as a lieutenant commander. We apologise for the error.

June 15, 2022
A review of alleged abuse in British gymnastics was written by Anne Whyte QC, not Sue Whyte as we wrongly said (Sport, Jun 14).

June 7, 2022
An article on attendance at the House of Lords quoted Pete Wishart MP, who criticised “unelected peers . . . content to sit at home while collecting their pay” (news, June 6). We have been asked to make clear that peers who do not contribute to House of Lords business cannot claim allowances.

June 6, 2022
A caption suggested that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on July 20, 1969 (A historic reign, Jun 1). Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on that date; Armstrong first set foot on the surface the next day.

June 3, 2022
We said the average salary of 25-year-olds in 1977 was £12,500 (Times2, Jun 1). It should have been made clear that this is the equivalent at 2020 prices: the figure at the time was closer to £3,000.

We said Israeli forces killed the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh (World, Jun 2). In fact investigations are continuing.

June 1, 2022
The most convenient airport for Gregans Castle Hotel is Shannon, not Galway, which closed to scheduled commercial flights in 2011 (Travel, May 28).

May 24, 2022
We said the restaurant L’Enclume had nearly trebled the price of a tasting menu (News, May 21). In fact L’Enclume has discontinued its shorter £100 lunch menu, and raised the price of its full tasting menu from £195 to £250. We apologise for the confusion.

The port of Klaipeda is in Lithuania, not Latvia as we wrongly stated (News, May 23).

May 19, 2022
We have been asked to point out that the Serious Fraud Office was cleared of misfeasance in a case brought by the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation; and that, contrary to the impression given by our headline “SFO to pay damages over Kazakh investigation” (Business, May 17), the court has yet to determine the issue of damages. We are happy to do so.

We wrongly said that Tesco does not operate in the Irish Republic (Business, May 16). The chain has shops in both the Republic and Northern Ireland.

May 9, 2022
St Albans city and district council was held by the Liberal Democrats, not by Labour as our local election graphic indicated (News, May 7).

May 7, 2022
In our report “BAE fired up as war returns to Europe” (Business, May 6) we ran a photograph of an artillery piece we mistakenly captioned as an M777 howitzer.

May 6, 2022
We said that British adults travelling to Spain and Italy are required to have been vaccinated against Covid no more than 270 days prior to arrival (News, May 2). In fact those who have received a booster jab will be admitted irrespective of when it was administered.

April 23, 2022
A feature in today’s Magazine says that two Ukrainian refugees, sponsored by Emily Eavis, are still waiting for UK visas. Since the Magazine went to press, the visas have been granted.

April 22, 2022
We said the chief inspector of prisons is the only person in England and Wales allowed to enter a jail at any time (Magazine, Apr 2). In fact the ombudsman and members of independent monitoring boards also have this right.

April 15, 2022
We wrongly reported that British Army officers in Kenya denied their soldiers had caused a fire (news, April 14). In fact the army does not deny causing the fire. We apologise for the mistake.

April 14, 2022
An article on wild swimming (Weekend, Apr 9) mistakenly recommended the Providence Inn at East Prawle, Devon. The Inn closed some years ago. We apologise for the error.

April 13, 2022
In a report of a study into carbon emissions by age group, we wrongly said the proportion caused by the over-60s went from 5 per cent in 2005 to 33 per cent in 2015, and that they are now the group with the largest carbon footprint (News, Mar 28). In fact the proportion grew from 25 per cent to 33 per cent, and emissions caused by the 45-59 age group were still marginally higher at the close of the study. We apologise for the errors. We have been asked to point out that the study’s authors stated they did not intend to apportion blame to any age group.

April 11, 2022
We reported (news, Dec 17) representations made by the Duke of Northumberland at a public inquiry into the proposed new passenger train line between Ashington and Newcastle: the Northumberland Line. The duke was objecting to the removal of his right to charge rent for the line to cross his land and to block the line in the event that rent is not paid. We wish to make clear that no demand for any sum in rent has been made by the duke for allowing the new line to cross his land and he has not threatened to block the line. We apologise for the inaccuracies.Based on information from David Warburton’s website, we said that the MP is a trustee of Music for Youth (news, Apr 4). The charity has informed us that he resigned in 2020. We are happy to correct the record.

April 9, 2022
We reported that Damilola Grace Olakanmi died after eating a cannabis-infused sweet (News, April 7). We now understand she mistakenly consumed a synthetic cannabinoid.

April 8, 2022
We reported in News in Brief (Business, April 6) that global sovereign debt was $52.2 billion in January 2020. The correct figure was $52.2 trillion.

April 7, 2022
We said that 60 per cent of adults do not pay income tax (Business, Apr 4). In fact the most recent government statistics indicate that about 59 per cent of adults do pay income tax.

Our report on the podcast The Trojan Horse Affair (News, Feb 26) said that senior teaching staff at Park View School had been mentioned in an anonymous letter to the council. In fact the hoax letter centred on teaching assistants at Adderley Primary School and mentioned the Park View Trust, which ran three schools in Birmingham, including Park View.

April 6, 2022
We wrongly said that Spencer Metzger was the first chef to take charge of two courses in the Great British Menu banquet finale (Weekend, Apr 2). Other chefs have done so in previous competitions.

A photograph showed the England cricketer Katherine Brunt with her team-mate Kate Cross, not with Danni Wyatt as the caption stated (Sport, Apr 4).

April 1, 2022
In an interview with Sir Tom Winsor, the outgoing chief inspector of constabulary, we said a police and crime commissioner (PCC) faced no obstacle if they wished to dismiss the chief constable (News, March 29). In fact the chief inspector must be consulted first, and PCCs must act reasonably and fairly.

March 30, 2022
The case concerning the award of government contracts during the pandemic in which a judge’s finding of bias was overturned on appeal is Good Law Project v Minister for the Cabinet Office, not Good Law Project v SSHSC (Law, Mar 24).

March 29, 2022
We reported that the historian Andrew Roberts had criticised the placing of a “trigger warning” next to the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives (news, Mar 28). He was referring to the National Archives in Washington DC, not those in London as we wrongly stated.

We said that Gillette announced a $5.24 billion loss in profits in 2019 (Times2, Mar 28). In fact this was an impairment charge reflecting the value of Gillette to its owners Procter & Gamble, based on the previous decade’s performance.

March 28, 2022
Our report “Courts deal fresh Unaoil blow to fraud office” (News, Mar 25) wrongly said that, after quashing Paul Bond’s conviction for conspiracy to bribe, the Court of Appeal rejected a request for a retrial. In fact the Serious Fraud Office made no such request.

March 26, 2022
We reported that Chay Bowskill’s prison sentence had been doubled by the Court of Appeal (news, March 23). In fact it was increased from seven and a half years to 12 years.

We reported that building work at a San Diego house owned by Bill Gates was disturbing neighbours (world news, March 25). Mr Gates has informed us that he does not own the property, has never been there and is not involved in any activity related to it. We are happy to make this clear.

March 23, 2022
We said the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright banned staff from talking publicly about the Ukraine crisis (leading article, Mar 21). The firm says the ban related only to sanctions and it supports staff who comment on the war more widely. We are happy to make this clear.

We wrongly said that P&O Ferries and P&O Cruises are owned by the same company (Business, Mar 22). The former is owned by DP World, based in Dubai; the latter is owned by the American firm Carnival Corporation.

March 22, 2022
We said that to qualify for the government’s tax-free childcare scheme, working parents must have a household income of less than £100,000 (Money, Mar 19). In fact the limit applies if either parent in a household has an income over £100,000.

March 16, 2022
A photo showed President John F Kennedy during a phone call to the US ambassador to the UN, Adlai Stevenson, not to Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, as we wrongly stated (World, Mar 15).

March 15, 2022
A reader’s letter wrongly suggested that the standing charges levied by power companies are not regulated (Mar 12). Such charges are covered by the energy price cap, set by the regulator Ofgem.

March 14, 2022
Because of a translation error we said the Royal Ballet’s Russian star Natalia Osipova had issued a vague statement about the invasion of Ukraine (Arts, Times 2, Mar 11). In fact her statement made clear that she is against the war. We apologise for the error.

March 12, 2022
In a report on ancient manuscripts saved from jihadists in Mali (World News, March 11) we wrongly captioned the mud-brick mosque of Djenné as being in Timbuktu. We reported on the widening of the Charity Commission’s inquiry into the cash-for-honours scandal at the Prince of Wales’s charity (News, March 10). The foundation now included in the investigation is the Burke’s Peerage Foundation. We are happy to make this clear.

We reported that Durham University could restrict colleges’ freedom to select their own external speakers (News, Mar 11). In fact the university is reviewing how speakers are engaged, not who is chosen to speak, and the colleges are part of the process. We are happy to correct this.

March 10, 2022
An article about Peter Batley, a retired major in the Royal Engineers (News, Mar 9), was wrongly illustrated with a picture of Warrant Officer Class 2 Mike Thompson. We apologise for the error.

March 9, 2022
Our story “Woman ‘lay dead for several days’ in Cork direct provision centre” (Ireland, March 8) wrongly said that Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland (JRSI) runs the Ashbourne House direct provision centre in Glounthaune. JRSI is an NGO offering support services to refugees in centres nationwide but does not own or operate any centre. We take this opportunity to correct the record and apologise to JRSI for the error.

March 3, 2022
A report on new government guidance telling teachers to avoid using material from campaigning organisations was headlined “Teachers told to avoid the ‘biased’ views of BLM and Stonewall” (News, Feb 17). In fact the guidance did not name Stonewall. We are happy to make this clear.

March 1, 2022
An armoured vehicle shown burning on a street in Kharkiv was Ukrainian, not Russian as our caption suggested (News, Feb 28). The mistake was due to incorrect information supplied by a news agency.

February 28, 2022
The High Court judge Mr Justice Mostyn is not a former president of the family division, as we wrongly stated (News, Feb 22).

February 26, 2022
Our story “National Theatre boss: ‘I’m a blame sponge’” (News, Feb 22) wrongly attributed comments to Sir Damon Buffini. We apologise for the mistake, which was corrected in later editions.
We reported that Terry Smith’s Fundsmith Equity Fund had been stripped of its ethical rating (Business, Feb 19). This was incorrect and we apologise for our error. Fundsmith has always had ESG factors at the heart of its investment process.

February 19, 2022
We reported claims that artworks of Jenny Bastet by Marc Quinn were shown without her consent (“Art was revenge porn, says ex-muse”, News, Feb 18). We accept that the All About Love artworks were made and exhibited with Jenny Bastet’s consent and that there is no basis to suggest that they were “revenge porn”. We are happy to make this clear and apologise to Mr Quinn.

February 15, 2022
We wrongly said that police were unable to intervene when Extinction Rebellion protesters blockaded newspaper presses in 2020 (leading article, January 18). In fact police arrested more than 70 people during the protests.

February 12, 2022
We reported that in 2019 the International Criminal Court had issued a non-binding opinion on the separation of the Chagos islands from Mauritius (World, Feb 9). In fact the opinion came from the International Court of Justice.

February 11, 2022
Our report “Levelling up plans target rogue landlords in the private sector” (News, Jan 31) said that national standards could be imposed on private sector landlords for the first time. In fact private landlords are already subject to some national standards; the new plans would bring them into line with more stringent expectations placed on local authorities and housing associations. We are happy to make this clear.

February 10, 2022
We said that the Inner Temple library had been destroyed and replaced with teaching facilities (The Brief, Feb 3). We have been asked to make clear that the redeveloped building will include both a library and teaching facilities.

February 9, 2022
Our review of a radio programme presented by Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty mistakenly carried a photograph of her mother, Anjula Mutanda (Saturday Review, Feb 5). We apologise to both for the error.

February 7, 2022
A graphic was wrongly labelled to indicate that the FTSE 100 index had outperformed the S&P 500 over the past five years (Business, Feb 5). The reverse is true. We apologise for the error.

February 3, 2022
We said a new lorry park is being considered by ministers to ease congestion around the Port of Dover (News, Jan 31). The Department for Transport says the purpose of any new lorry park would be to increase parking capacity and improve HGV driver working conditions. We are happy to make this clear.

February 2, 2022
The co-founder of the app Smart Snout is Phil James, not Phil Jones as we wrongly stated (News, Feb 1).

Our article “Police interview charity chief after tweet ending referrals to rape centre” (Jan 29) and subsequent articles reported that Police Scotland interviewed Nicola Murray, the head of the Brodie’s Trust domestic abuse support group, about a reported hate crime. The police have now confirmed she was not the subject of a complaint or investigation.

In our edition of August 7, 2021 we published an article online referring to Coco Content Ltd, Coco Television Productions Ltd and named directors of both companies, Linda Cullen and Stuart Switzer. The article was untrue and published in error. We acknowledge that all the assertions made in the article related to another company with no connection whatsoever to Coco Content Ltd, Coco Television Productions Ltd, Linda Cullen or Stuart Switzer. The Times wishes to apologise to the two companies, and also to Ms Cullen and Mr Switzer, for all the distress and reputational damage caused to them both personally and professionally by the article.

January 29, 2022
The statement that police appeared to be operating within a “very narrow, partisan view of what it is legitimate to have on your bookshelf” was made by Heather Brunskell-Evans and not by Jennifer Swayne as we wrongly said. The book Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body was co-edited by Dr Brunskelll Evans and Professor Michele Moore (“Police seize ‘anti-trans’ book from activist Jennifer Swayne in raid on home”, News, Jan 27).

A photograph captioned as showing Alec Douglas-Home was in fact of his home secretary, Henry Brooke (“More like a university than a school”, education supplement, Jan 26).

January 28, 2022
In an article yesterday (“Stars align in final push for charities”, News, Jan 27) we mistakenly attributed to Dame Vivienne Westwood quotes that were actually supplied by another long-term supporter of the Refugee Council, Dame Vanessa Redgrave. We apologise for this error.

We wrongly said that Sweden was reliant on gas imported from Russia (News, Jan 24). Gas makes up about 2 per cent of Sweden’s energy usage, and is mainly imported from Denmark.

January 27, 2022
In “ ‘Infiltrator’ paid wages of Labour aide who went to work for Corbyn” (Jan 15), we reported in error that when he was head of Labour’s trade policy in 2017, John Hilary’s salary was paid by Christine Lee & Co. Mr Hilary has informed us that at no point during his time with the Labour Party was any part of his salary paid by Christine Lee, her firm or anyone connected with her. We apologise for any confusion caused.

January 25, 2022
Backmuir Wood is in Angus, not Lanarkshire as we wrongly stated (Weekend, Jan 22).

January 21, 2022
Reporting WH Smith’s annual meeting (Business, Jan 20) we said that 64 per cent of voting shareholders were against the company’s remuneration policy, 60 per cent were against the remuneration report, and 80 per cent were against the re-election of Maurice Thompson as a non-executive director. The correct figures are 12 per cent, 46 per cent and 22 per cent.

January 19, 2022
We reported that the alleged Chinese agent Christine Lee made a generous donation to the Conservative Party at a 2018 fundraising event organised by Alex Yip, a Conservative councillor and former director of the British Chinese Project (News, Jan 15). Alex Yip states that no such donation was made and that Lee has not donated to the party since she was identified as having close links with the Chinese Embassy. We are happy to put this on record.

January 12, 2022
We wrongly said that the warm homes discount on electricity bills is payable to all pensioners (News, Jan 11). In fact only those on lower incomes, who receive the guarantee credit element of pension credit, are eligible.

A report of an employment tribunal claim against the chef Herbert Berger (News, Dec 28) referred to a hearing held in early December. In fact that hearing did not take place after the claimant withdrew his claim. It follows that there was no case to answer. We are happy to make this clear and apologise for the error.

January 11, 2022
Reporting remarks by the education secretary we said that this year’s GCSEs and A-level assessments would involve a hybrid model of exam results and teacher assessment (News, Jan 10). The exam regulator Ofqual has since clarified that the plan is for students to sit exams unless Covid disruption makes this impossible, in which case grades will be determined by teachers.

We wrongly said that Colin Grant had provided cannabis to people in Luton in the 1960s (Radio Choice, Times2, Jan 10). In fact it was Grant’s father who did so. We apologise for the confusion.

January 8, 2022
A report on Scouts Scotland was wrongly illustrated with a photograph of Scouts from Poland (News, Scottish edition, Jan 4). We apologise for the confusion.

January 7, 2022
In a series of articles published on and July 17 and 18, 2020, we reported on the activities of Sport Mobile, a company which provided mobile telephone services. Following legal action brought by Mike Ashley, the court found that in the articles it was alleged that there were grounds to suspect that Sport Mobile helped Mr Ashley to avoid the disclosure in High Court proceedings of potentially relevant text messages and phone records, which Mr Ashley had told the court he could not produce whilst knowing that Sport Mobile could in fact have obtained them. We did not intend to suggest such meanings and accept that any allegations of wrongdoing by Mr Ashley in his litigation with Jeffrey Blue are untrue. We sincerely apologise to Mr Ashley for the distress and damage caused by the publication of our articles. We are happy to set the record straight and have agreed to pay Mr Ashley substantial damages in addition to his legal costs.

January 5, 2022
Referring to rape statistics, we said that “In England and Wales 436 male-bodied sex offenders were classified as women from 2012 to 2018” (Comment, Dec 14). In fact, under English law, accessories to a crime are charged as principal offenders, and therefore women can be charged with rape. How many female defendants were “male-bodied” is not recorded. We are happy to make this clear.

January 4, 2022
The headline of an article (News, Feb 9, 2021) stated “Breastfeeding is now chestfeeding, Brighton’s trans-friendly midwives are told”. In fact, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust’s guidance did not advocate the universal substitution of the term “breastfeeding” with “chestfeeding”, rather that the term “breast/chestfeeding” should be used instead in the Trust’s literature and communications. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

December 17, 2021
A report about Victor Vescovo, who has dived the world’s four deepest ocean trenches (World, Dec 15) was wrongly illustrated with a photograph of another explorer, Richard Garriott.

December 16, 2021
Magnus Linklater’s column (Dec 13, Scottish edition) stated that the Scottish Fiscal Commission estimated £400 million would be wiped off Scottish income tax revenues next year. In fact the commission said the decision to freeze higher-rate income tax thresholds would raise an estimated £106 million in the 12 months from April.

December 14, 2021
We said the majority of Covid patients in intensive care units were unvaccinated (leading article, Dec 11). Figures published on December 10 show that during November, 48 per cent of Covid patients admitted to intensive care were unvaccinated. During that period, about 11 per cent of over-12s in the general population were unvaccinated. We are happy to make this clear.

December 10, 2021
In an article published in The Times on May 5, 2021, and online, we incorrectly suggested that Barra McGrory QC and SC, the then Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland, may have been improperly motivated when the decision was taken to prosecute the two former paratroopers for the killing of Joe McCann. We accept this was not the case and we apologise to Mr McGrory for this suggestion.

December 4, 2021
We report in today’s Magazine that the antiviral molnupiravir is 50 per cent effective at keeping vulnerable Covid-19 patients out of hospital. Since the Magazine went to press, new data has revised that figure down to about a third.

The photograph accompanying the obituary of Ronald Jones online (Dec 3) was of the Queen with Sheikh Zayed of Abu Dhabi, president of the UAE, not King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. We apologise for the mistake.

December 3, 2021
National insurance and income tax amount to 30.4 per cent of the earnings of a worker on £75,000 in the UK, rather than 22.8 per cent, as our graphic on personal tax burdens in the UK and the US (Business, Dec 2) incorrectly stated.

December 2, 2021
Universities UK estimates that a 43-year-old lecturer earning £50,000 who had been in the universities superannuation scheme for eight years would be eligible for a pension of about £20,000 in retirement, not £100,000 as we mistakenly said (News, Dec 1).

December 1, 2021
An obituary of Sir John Butterfill contained errors (Register, Nov 24). He did not fail the 11-plus exam. He did not repay £60,000 to the Inland Revenue in the wake of the expenses scandal, having been found not to owe any additional sums. Further, his family has stated that he made no profit on the family home after renovation expenses were accounted for; and that he had announced his retirement before the controversy around expenses arose. We apologise for the errors and are happy to set the record straight.

November 30, 2021
Owing to a production error, we said the winter fuel payment for those on a state pension is £3,000 (Money, Nov 27). In fact it is between £100 and £300.

November 29, 2021
We wrongly said that Catherine the Great was the first Russian to receive Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccine (news, Nov 27). She underwent variolation, an earlier immunisation procedure. The mistake was due to an editing error.

November 27, 2021
We wrongly said that Cpharm, an Australian company, had reached a deal with the Taliban (World, Nov 25). No such deal exists. We apologise for the error.

November 26, 2021
Legal & General manages £1.4 trillion of assets, not £1.4 billion as we wrongly stated (Business, Nov 24).

November 25, 2021
We said that a study published in The BMJ found that mask wearing reduced coronavirus infections by 53 per cent (News, Nov 1, and Times2, Nov 22). We have been asked to make clear that while the study found that mask wearing was “associated with” a reduction in risk, the limitations of the research made it difficult for the authors to draw a causal conclusion.

November 22, 2021
A photograph showed Lance-Corporal Rambahadur Limbu with his son, not his daughter as the caption wrongly stated (obituaries, Nov 20). We apologise for the error.

We reported a claim that the two-minute silence at the Imperial War Museum was interrupted by rap performers (news, Nov 20). The museum has stated that no such interruption occurred. We are happy to put this on record.

November 15, 2021
We said in a headline that “Durham University trains its students to be sex workers” (News, Nov 12). In fact, as the accompanying article explained, the university is offering safety training for students who may be working in the sex industry. We are happy to make this clear.

November 12, 2021
We said that “A fêted new rare earths processing facility in Yorkshire, benefitting from UK government support . . . inked a partnership to build its Angolan mine in partnership with a Chinese state-backed group” (Red Box, Nov 9). Pensana, the company responsible for the project in question, has asked us to make clear that it has no partnership with any Chinese companies in Angola or elsewhere. We are happy to correct the record.

November 9, 2021
We cited a Soil Association report as stating that each year the poultry industry uses 2.2 million tonnes of imported soya as feed (Comment, Nov 3). In fact the report said that overall soya imports are 3.2 million tonnes, and the majority of imports from South America are used as poultry feed. The figures are disputed by the Agricultural Industries Confederation, which says the poultry meat sector uses 1.26 million tonnes of imported soya bean meal for animal feed.

We reported an allegation from the China Africa Project that Sharon Duncan-Brewster, a black British actress, had been removed from a poster promoting the film Dune in China (World, Oct 27). The China Africa Project has withdrawn the allegation, which was false. Multiple posters, not all of which portrayed Duncan-Brewster, were used to promote the film in both Chinese and English-language markets. We are happy to make this clear.

November 6, 2021
We said that Graham Riddick, then a Conservative MP, took cash for asking parliamentary questions in 1994 (News, Nov 5). Later investigations found the payment was for legitimate consultancy and cleared him of any wrongdoing. We are happy to make this clear and apologise for any distress caused.

November 5, 2021
We wrongly said that St Andrews University had received dozens of claims of sexual abuse at events held by a student society (News, Oct 3). In fact a dozen such claims were made on social media.

November 3, 2021
We said in a headline that Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of Oxfam GB, was “behind” a decision to move a statue of Thomas Guy (News, Sep 11). While Mr Sriskandarajah became a trustee of St Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation two months before the decision was taken, it is not the case that he instigated it. We are happy to make this clear.

November 2, 2021
An extension of death benefits to cohabiting unmarried parents will cost the government £220 million over five years, not £220 billion as we wrongly stated (Money Budget special, Oct 30).

October 27, 2021
The picture accompanying our report on a proposed luge track at Blaze Fell, Cumbria (News, Oct 25) in fact showed Bassenthwaite Lake, 21 miles away.

October 26, 2021
Our article on Nic Chapman (Magazine, Oct 16) said her father died of multiple sclerosis (MS). He died from complications arising from the disease, which is not itself fatal. We also said a third of people with MS will eventually need a wheelchair. In fact studies indicate that if the condition is not treated, a third of people with MS will require a wheelchair or other mobility aid after 20 years.

October 22, 2021
An obituary of Gerda Mayer mistakenly carried a picture of Martha Sharp (Sept 18). We apologise for the error.

In editing a letter (Oct 21), “former archbishop of York”, rather than Cape Town, was added to describe Desmond Tutu. We apologise for the error.

October 20, 2021
Airey Neave MP was killed by the Irish National Liberation Army, not the IRA as we wrongly stated (leading article, Oct 15).

October 18, 2021
We referred to money received by the British Council from “the Chinese authorities” for English language teaching. (“The British Council is in crisis and I’m not sure it’s worth saving”, Arts, Oct 15). We have been asked to make clear that the council’s revenues in China come entirely from fees paid by individual students and channelled through the Chinese state exam regulator. The council receives no Chinese government funding.

October 15, 2021
An article on the trial of Stewart Edgar, former head of Gloucestershire fire and rescue service (News, Oct 13), was wrongly illustrated with a photograph of Wayne Bowcock, chief fire officer of Royal Berkshire fire and rescue service, who has no involvement with the case. We apologise for the mistake.

October 13, 2021
The Queen will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee next year, not her Diamond Jubilee as we wrongly stated (News, Oct 12).

October 11, 2021
We wrongly said that Neil Corbel’s duties on the continuous policing improvement command involved training officers on safeguarding vulnerable victims of crime, including sexual and domestic abuse victims (News, Sept 14). The improvement command has such a role but Corbel worked only as part of the national business crime centre.

October 6, 2021
A photograph of the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace showed a member of the Scots Guards, not the Coldstream Guards as we wrongly said (News, Oct 5).

October 2, 2021
A guide to wild swimming suggested walking from Rydal Mount to Buckstones Jum, Cumbria (Weekend, Sept 25). We have been asked to make clear that part of this route may in fact cross private land. Buckstones Jum can be reached on a public right of way from Ambleside via Birk Hagg Woods. A guide to autumn fell running the same day gave an incorrect postcode for the carpark in Craster, Northumberland. The correct postcode is NE66 3TW.

October 1, 2021
We said that Dame Cressida Dick, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, called the police officer Wayne Couzens a “bad ‘un” (“At least 15 women killed by police officers in past 12 years”, News, Sep 29). In fact Dick was referring to officers who perpetrate domestic violence, and not to Couzens specifically.

The port of Chittagong is in Bangladesh, not in Sri Lanka as we mistakenly stated (Comment, Sep 29).

September 24, 2021
We said that 6,500 migrant construction workers had died building infrastructure for the World Cup 2022 (News, Sep 2). The government of Qatar has stated that this figure is in fact the total for all deaths in Qatar over the past ten years of residents from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal. We are happy to put this on record.

September 23, 2021
In “Dropped testing firms claim approved status” (News, Aug 17), we alleged that Assured Screening had been removed from the official government list of approved PCR test providers for failing to meet adequate standards and was wrongly representing to the public that it was approved. We accept that these claims were untrue. Assured Screening was temporarily omitted from two lists of official test providers in error by the Department of Health and Social Care but it is government-approved and listed on all relevant government test provider lists. We apologise for the damage caused.

We said that Valerie Brown is believed to be part of Insulate Britain (News, Sep 18). Ms Brown states that she has supported the group on social media but is not part of it.

A map gave an inaccurate depiction of the borders of India and other Asian states (News, Sep 17). We apologise for the error.

September 18, 2021
We wrongly said that Covid-19 cases in Mauritius “have jumped over fivefold to more than 12,600 a day in a population of 1.2 million” (News, Sep 15). The correct number of cases in Mauritius is 14,073 in total since the start of the pandemic. We apologise for the mistake.

September 16, 2021
A diary item wrongly said that Viscount Portman was convicted of an antisemitic hate crime (Comment, Sep 14). It should have referred to Piers Portman. We apologise for the error.

September 10, 2021
Reporting the proposed social care reforms (News, Sept 8), we wrongly said that the means test will be adjusted so that those with assets under £100,000 would pay nothing towards their care costs. In fact those with assets between £100,000 and £20,000 will have their care subsidised. Those with less than £20,000 in assets will not be required to draw on them but may have to contribute from any income.

We said (News, Sep 8) that waiters at the Byron restaurant chain “on zero-hours contracts” are concerned that the company’s management might unduly influence a review of the system under which tips are allocated to staff. Byron states that the staff concerned are hourly employees; that it has no zero-hours contracts; that the review, which is being carried out by independent experts and restaurant staff, cannot be influenced by the management at Byron; and that there is no question of corporate managers taking a share of the tips as our headline implied. We are happy to put the record straight.

September 7, 2021
Our article “The prince, a royal honour and Saudi tycoon’s £1.5m donation” (News, Sep 6) wrongly said that Clarence House had declined to comment on a number of new allegations. In fact we had failed to invite comment before publication, for which we apologise.

September 1, 2021
We wrongly stated that east Jerusalem has been occupied by Israel since 1948 (World News, Aug 30). Israeli control began after the Six Day War in 1967.

We reported a claim by Diana de Vegh that an agreement to conceal her identity had been broken by the author Sally Bedell Smith in a book on John F and Jackie Kennedy (News, Aug 30). Bedell Smith says no such agreement existed, and states that she had been made aware of de Vegh’s identity as Kennedy’s lover by three sources before their interviews for the book took place. We are happy to make this clear.

August 26, 2021
In “Dropped testing firms claim approved status”, (News, August 17), we reported that Lords Pharmacy had been temporarily removed from the official list of providers of PCR tests. We are happy to make clear that this was the result of an error by the Department of Health and Social Care and there is no suggestion of any misrepresentation by Lords Pharmacy. We apologise for any confusion caused.

August 13, 2021
We wrongly said that the Duke of York is admiral of the Sea Cadets (News, Aug 12). He ceased to have this role in 2019.

August 10, 2021
The secretary of state for Wales is Simon Hart, not Ian Hart as we wrongly stated (News, Aug 9).

August 6, 2021
We wrongly said that an Ofqual report showed 87.5 per cent of A-levels taken at private schools and 44 per cent taken at comprehensives were awarded A or A* grades last year. The correct figures are 60.4 per cent and 32.7 per cent respectively.

August 5, 2021
A caption wrongly stated that flights from the US had landed at Heathrow for the first time in more than a year (News, Aug 3). Flights from the US continued through the pandemic.

August 4, 2021
The Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme has paid out on 14 per cent of claims since its inception, not 80 per cent as wrongly stated in a recent letter (Jul 27). The Department of Work and Pensions has said that the £120,000 one-off tax-free payment made under the scheme is “not compensation” but “a payment to help ease the financial burden on . . . individuals where . . . vaccination has caused severe disablement”. Claims are determined on the balance of probability.

August 3, 2021
The Russian Direct Investment Fund states that, contrary to our report (News, Jul 31), no country in the world has cancelled a contract for the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. We are happy to make this clear.

July 31, 2021
We wrongly said in a headline (News, early editions, Jul 30) that Lord Clarke of Nottingham had in 1983 declared NHS blood products to be “safe”. As the accompanying article made clear, he acknowledged concerns over safety but said there was not yet “conclusive proof” that the products caused Aids. We apologise for the mistake.

We said that coronavirus “is not transmitted via surfaces” (Comment, Jul 15). While the latest scientific consensus is that the risk of surface transmission is extremely low, UK government advice is that such transmission remains possible and steps should be taken to avoid it.

We said that a government report into President Macron’s former college, Sciences Po Paris, claimed that the college ignored 31 complaints of rape or sexual assault (World, Jul 29). This was incorrect. The cases involve both Sciences Po Paris and nine other Sciences Po institutes in provincial France and the report found that in at least some of the cases the alleged victims either opposed passing information to prosecutors or had already done so.

July 29, 2021
In an opinion piece published on May 22 (“It’s too simple to blame everything on Bashir”) we wrongly stated that Earl Spencer had refused to assist Diana, Princess of Wales, with the offer of a house after the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles. We are happy to report that having considered his sister’s safety, and in line with police advice, the Earl offered the Princess of Wales a number of properties including Wormleighton Manor, the Spencer family’s original ancestral home. It was wrong to suggest he had refused to help his sister or had failed to protect her from Martin Bashir and concealed evidence of the latter’s deception. We did not intend to suggest that the Earl was to blame for his sister’s death. We apologise to the Earl and have agreed to pay his costs as well as make a payment to him which he will donate to charity.

July 28, 2021
About 1 in 5,000 pharmaceutical drugs pass all stages of development and clinical trials to reach the market, rather than 1 in 500, as was wrongly stated in our article “My search for a cure to the disease that killed my mother” (Times2, Jul 27).

Coronavirus vaccines are not “risky” for people with blood cancer, as we mistakenly said (Leading article, Jul 26). Early research suggests their effectiveness may be reduced but side effects are no more common among blood cancer sufferers than for the wider population.

We stated that Frasers Group had defended its position of not returning furlough money and business rates support funding by saying “furlough did what it said on the tin and helped us retain thousands of jobs” (Business, Jul 27). This was incorrect. It was JD Sports that made this comment and defended its position.

July 27, 2021
We stated that fully vaccinated UK citizens are required to present a negative Covid test to enter France (News, Jul 26). This is incorrect. They must present proof of vaccination and sign a declaration that they are free of symptoms. We apologise for the error.

July 22, 2021
Our report “Global stocks tumble amid Covid concerns and rising inflation rate” (Business, Jul 20) transposed the previous day’s closing figures for the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250.

July 17, 2021
We referred to “NHS England’s contact tracing app” (news, Jul 15). This was an editing error. NHS England has asked us to make clear that it has no role in the app, which is run by the Department of Health and Social Care.

July 15, 2021
We wrongly said that the Chinese Sinovac and Russian Sputnik vaccines are being administered to patients in Qatar (News, July 14). Only the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are being used.

July 14, 2021
The Wimbledon men’s trophy was presented by the Duke of Kent, not the Duchess of Cambridge as we wrongly said (News, Jul 12).

July 13, 2021
The Bank of England interest rate is 0.1 per cent not 0.75 per cent as we said. (“Let’s talk about our addiction to cheap money”, Comment, Jul 12).

July 12, 2021
A headline wrongly stated “‘Woke’ culture war is biggest dividing line among voters” (News, Jul 5). As the accompanying article made clear, the polling expert Frank Luntz believes “Wokeism” and the culture wars are on course to becoming the biggest dividing line in British politics but they are not yet ranked first among divisive issues by voters.

Graham McCann’s 1999 book on Morecambe and Wise is not out of print, as we wrongly said (Saturday Review, Jul 9).

July 10, 2021
We said in a leading article that “the Foreign Office still advises against travel to amber list countries” and that this “invalidates many travel insurance policies” (“Holiday Plans”, Jul 9). This is incorrect. As we reported elsewhere, the Foreign Office changed its travel advice in relation to many amber countries on Thursday, declaring them safe for UK tourists (“Vaccinated Britons rush to book quarantine-free holidays in amber-list countries”, News, Jul 9).

July 6, 2021
In the photograph accompanying our review of Le Comte Ory (Times2, July 5), the singer in the centre is Jacques Imbrailo, not Jack Swanson as we stated.

July 2, 2021
We said that it was Stanley Baldwin, three times Conservative prime minister between 1923 and 1937, who introduced the first pension scheme (Obituary, June 24). In fact UK state pensions were introduced in 1909 by a Liberal government.

Roger Federer was not knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round in 2003, as we wrongly stated (Sport, June 30). He won the men’s singles tournament that year, having earlier been knocked out of the French Open in the first round.

July 1, 2021
Our headline “Death rate among those infected during third wave falls to 0.01%” (News, Jun 28) incorrectly rounded the findings of the Medical Research Council’s biostatistics unit. As the text of the article correctly reported, the infection fatality rate of Covid-19 was estimated at 0.085 per cent. The rounded figure should have been 0.1 per cent.

June 30, 2021
A picture in A Good Walk (Weekend, June 26) showed the foliage of a plane tree, rather than that of a sycamore as the caption stated. We apologise for the error.

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher is not the top British diplomat to the Holy See, as we wrongly stated (World, June 29). He is the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, a position equivalent to foreign secretary for the Holy See.

June 25, 2021
In “Bafta boss Krishnendu Majumdar worked with scandal star Noel Clarke on diversity” (News, May 3), we reported concerns that Krishnendu Majumdar’s close links with Noel Clarke and their work together to promote diversity could have hampered Bafta’s handling of the sex allegations against Clarke. We accept that this suggestion is incorrect. There are no close links between the men. Bafta’s response to the allegations was delegated to a group deputed to deal with the issue. Bafta has explained that the matter was determined by the lack of evidence it had at the time of having to make its decision on whether to proceed with presenting Mr Clarke with an award. We apologise to Mr Majumdar and Bafta for the distress.

June 16, 2021
Churchill College, Cambridge, has not held any meetings to discuss the possibility of changing its name and denies reports that it has plans to make such a change (News, June 11). We are happy to make this clear.

June 15, 2021
We wrongly said that Acas was among organisations to have withdrawn from Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme “in recent weeks” (“Taxpayers gave Stonewall £2.6m over four years”, News, June 14). In fact Acas left the scheme in June 2020 for cost reasons and continues to support Stonewall’s work. We apologise for repeating this mistake

June 12, 2021
The three dressing gowns described in our picture caption as belonging to Noel Coward (news, June 10) were in fact made by the design company Georgina von Etzdorf at least ten years after his death. One is silk, as stated, the others cotton and rayon velvet.

June 11, 2021
Reporting communications between Sir James Dyson and Boris Johnson, we described Sir James as a Tory donor. We are happy to make clear that a charitable gift from The James Dyson Foundation to the Conservative MP Michelle Donelan was to support the Wiltshire Engineering Festival for school children and did not signal affiliation to any political party; that his company absorbed costs of £20m by responding to the Prime Minister’s direct request for assistance in providing ventilators; and that Sir James was not seeking any favours in text communications with the Prime Minister. We are further happy to reiterate that Sir James contacted Number 10 in response to the Prime Minister’s direct request for assistance in relation to the urgent need for ventilators and his text messages were sent to officials and therefore not private. We apologise to Sir James for any suggestions to the contrary.

Julius Rosenberg ran an espionage ring within American nuclear facilities including the project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, but did not himself work at Los Alamos, as we mistakenly stated (Review, June 5).

June 10, 2021
In an article on the 2021 census we wrongly referred to “transgender patients who may be on long-term therapy … to change their biological sex” (Doctors who mix up sex and gender ‘put patients at risk’, April 3). Hormone therapy cannot change biological sex. We also reported that statisticians were concerned that census questions on sex, trans status and sexual orientation “could distort figures on issues such as illnesses specific to men and women”. We have been asked to make clear that the concerns expressed related specifically to guidance that the sex question could be answered with a gender identity.

June 9, 2021
An Irish subsidiary of Microsoft did not make a profit of $315 billion in 2020, as we mistakenly suggested (leading article, Jun 8). The increase in its balance sheet was due to an inter-company reorganisation.

June 8, 2021
Figures from the Office for National Statistics indicate that one in 60 of the UK population suffers from long Covid, rather than one in 60 of those infected with the virus, as our report incorrectly implied (News, June 5). We apologise for the confusion, which was due to an editing error.

June 7, 2021
Because of a production error, from April 28 to May 6 our graphic on Covid-19 statistics included incorrect figures relating to average annual death comparisons. In fact, weekly deaths were estimated to be between 0.8 and 5.3 per cent lower during this period than the five-year average. We apologise for the confusion.

June 5, 2021
We criticised an application by Jesus College, Cambridge, to remove from the college chapel a monument to its benefactor Tobias Rustat, who had links with the slave trade (leading article, June 1). In fact, before our article was published, the college had revised its original plan and now proposes relocating the statue to a permanent educational exhibition space. The expected cost is £85,000, not “hundreds of thousands” as we said. We are happy to make this clear and have revised the article accordingly. We apologise for failing to note the change in the college’s stance.

June 1, 2021
Facebook denies reports that its head of communications, Sir Nick Clegg, lobbied ministers concerning the appointment of a new chairman of Ofcom (leading article, May 28). The company has asked us to make this clear and we are happy to do so.

May 29, 2021
In reporting that the Bar Human Rights Committee had urged the foreign secretary to back an independent inquiry into alleged war crimes by Israel, we said that Schona Jolly QC, chairwoman of the committee, “did not respond to a request for comment” (“Backlash at barristers’ ‘one-sided’ call for investigation into alleged Israel war crimes”, news, May 17, and The Brief, May 20). This was incorrect. Ms Jolly indicated that she was unable to meet our first deadline for digital publication but undertook to provide a statement soon afterwards. In the statement she pointed out that her committee’s letter to Dominic Raab called for government support for an investigation into alleged war crimes by both the Israeli government and Palestinian armed groups, including Hamas. We are happy to make this clear and apologise to Ms Jolly for the delay in adding her statement to the article online and for not reflecting the BHRC’s position in the version of the article subsequently published in print and promoted in our newsletter, The Brief.

We reported that Acas, the employment dispute service, had withdrawn from Stonewall’s diversity champions scheme after concerns were raised that the campaign group had given unlawful advice on transgender rights (news, May 28). In fact Acas left the scheme in June 2020 for cost reasons and continues to support Stonewall’s work. We are happy to make this clear.

May 28, 2021
We said that “Tavistock patients are overwhelmingly gay, including 90 per cent of girls” (“Banning gay conversion therapy is a minefield”, Comment, May 17). We have been asked to make clear that this figure was an estimate by former Tavistock clinicians who have treated hundreds of young people. The Tavistock itself keeps no data on the sexuality of its clients.

May 26, 2021
Contrary to the impression that may have been given by our leading article (“Cover Up”, May 25), the director-general of the BBC responded to Lord Dyson’s report on the day of its publication. There was then a four-day gap before any BBC response to the Duke of Cambridge’s statement on the report. We are happy to make this clear.

May 25, 2021
A report from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch stated that, before a fatal crash, the skipper of a speedboat was operating “singlehandedly”. This means he was operating the boat alone, rather than with one hand, as we mistakenly reported (News, May 21). We apologise for the error.

May 21, 2021
We reported that the child rapist Kadian Nelson had previously assaulted his former girlfriend and was on the run for three weeks before he carried out a sex attack on a 13-year-old girl (“Partner reported rapist to police weeks before attack”, News, May 20). The Metropolitan Police has asked us to make clear that multiple attempts were made to detain Nelson after the first assault but he could not be traced. His arrest, after the rape, followed an extensive police operation.

May 15, 2021
Since our report “Holiday in Portugal — should you book now or hold off?” (weekend, today) went to press Portugal has announced that it will allow British tourists into the country from Monday, May 17.

May 13, 2021
A production error in The Times Scotland School League table saw some schools aligned with the wrong local authority area. A corrected version of the table is available on The Times website.

May 10, 2021
The Thunderer written by Douglas Cusine (“Politicians guilty of ignorance over not proven verdict”, May 6) used government statistics from 2010-16 and stated incorrectly that the not proven verdict was most often in road traffic cases.

May 07, 2021
The Sarah Ferguson who wrote Skiing from the Inside: The Self-help Guide to Mastering the Slopes is not the Sarah Ferguson who married Prince Andrew, as we wrongly stated (news, May 6).

We incorrectly stated that farrowing crates hold pregnant sows for the whole 16 weeks of their pregnancy (leading article, Apr 30). They are used for a maximum of five weeks during the birthing period. “Sow stalls”, in which sows used to spend their whole pregnancy, were banned in 1999. Germany has not, as we stated, banned farrowing crates, but has set in motion legislation to end their use by 2035.

It was agents of Thomas Cromwell, not Oliver Cromwell, who destroyed Becket’s shrine in Canterbury cathedral (arts, May 1).

May 03, 2021
Representatives of Alexander Bondarenko and Vladimir Stolyarenko (World, Apr 28) inform us — and we accept — that they have not been stripped of their Cypriot citizenship and that they are not on any international wanted lists on fraud allegations. We are happy to make this clear.

April 29, 2021
We wrongly described Alexandra Marks as a High Court judge (Business, Apr 28). She is a solicitor and a deputy High Court judge. The error was introduced in editing.

April 28, 2021
The Chinese company Nuctech’s body scanners are used by the the UK Border Force and Her Majesty’s Prison Service but not, as we wrongly said, at the Home Office headquarters in Westminster (news, Apr 27).

April 12, 2021
A photograph in the Easter Sunday radio guide that we said showed Sister Teresa Keswick was in fact of Sister Rita Macauley, who died two years ago (Saturday Review, Apr 3). We apologise for the mistake.

April 6, 2021
A headline in early editions wrongly decribed the late Conservatove politician Dame Cheryl Gillan as a “Labour MP” (News). We apologise for the mistake.

April 4, 2021
We incorrectly used a picture of Jiangxi Nanchang in China to illustrate Tel Aviv (Travel). The picture was miscaptioned by Getty Images. We apologise for the error.

April 3, 2021
In an article published on October 24, 2020 (News), we stated that Ben Delo had been charged with facilitating money laundering in the US and that, as a result, his former Oxford college was seeking legal advice on an endowment previously received from him. Mr Delo has been charged with failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering procedures at his company, a separate charge under US law. We have been assured that Worcester College has not sought legal advice in relation to Mr Delo’s donation. We are happy to set the record straight.

April 2, 2021
In “Charities accused of helping smuggle migrants to Greece” (World, December 10, 2020), we reported allegations made by the Greek authorities that Al-Khair Foundation, a charity based in England, had colluded with human traffickers who were assisting Somali migrants trying to reach Europe, including in one incident which led to the deaths of a number of Somalis in the Mediterranean. We accept that these allegations were and are untrue and we apologise to the Al-Khair Foundation and its Trustees. We have agreed to pay damages and legal costs to Al-Khair and its founding trustee, Imam Qasim.

April 1, 2021
In an article published on October 24, 2020 (News), we stated that Ben Delo had been charged with facilitating money laundering in the US and that, as a result, his former Oxford college was seeking legal advice on an endowment previously received from him. Mr Delo has been charged with failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering procedures at his company, a separate charge under US law. We have been assured that Worcester College has not sought legal advice in relation to Mr Delo’s donation. We are happy to set the record straight.

Because of an editing error, we wrongly stated that a study by Trinity College Dublin had found Google can collect information on “anyone standing nearby” to its Pixel smartphone owners (Phones collect your data every four minutes, Mar 30). The study made no such finding and did not suggest that Google collects this data. We are happy to correct the record.

March 26, 2021
We reported that one of the protesters photographed in Bristol had been identified as Richard Cooper, the 27-year-old son of Mark Cooper, a civil servant (news, Mar 24). We have been informed that this identification was incorrect. We apologise to Richard Cooper and his father for the mistake.

March 25, 2021
We reported an allegation that Roman Abramovich bought a yacht for president Vladimir Putin, when the latter was prime minister (“One superyacht just isn’t enough for Roman Abramovich”, news, Feb 25). We accept that this allegation is not correct. Mr Abramovich has never owned the yacht Olympia and did not give it or any other yacht to Mr Putin. We also wrongly reported that Mr Abramovich gave a yacht to Mr Eugene Shvidler. We are happy to clarify the position and apologise to Mr Abramovich for the errors.

We wrongly labelled Ukraine as Belarus on a map of coronavirus cases in Europe (news, Mar 23). We apologise for the mistake.

We stated (news, Feb 10) that since becoming an MP Matt Hancock has received £32,000 in donations from Neil Record, chairman of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). The IEA has asked us to clarify that it does not make political donations, although its trustees may do so in a personal capacity, and that Mr Record’s donations to Mr Hancock ceased before Mr Hancock was appointed health secretary.

March 20, 2021
We said (news, Mar 15) that Anish Kapoor has British and Indian citizenship. This was incorrect. Sir Anish is a British citizen. A Diary item (Mar 13) suggested that the Countess of Devon was advising the Duchess of Sussex “don’t be seen to be whiny”. This was inaccurate and taken out of context. The countess has asked us to make clear that she strongly supports speaking out on mental health issues, and that she is not personally acquainted with the duchess, knowing her only by reputation. We apologise for the misunderstanding.

March 12, 2021
Foxtons’ operating loss in 2019 was £700,000, not £700 million as we wrongly reported (Business, Mar 11). We apologise for the mistake.

From Feb 26 to March 3 the data provided in our Covid vaccination chart, How Britain Compares, was for the adult population of the UK, rather than for the total population of the UK. The UK’s record is not “second only to Israel” in terms of the proportion of the population to have received first doses of the vaccine (Business comment, Feb 17). Gibraltar, Seychelles, Israel, the Falkland Islands and the United Arab Emirates are all proportionally ahead.

March 9, 2021
The route used by the Marranella mafia clan to ship drugs from Morocco went through Campo de Gibraltar, the Spanish municipality bordering Gibraltar, not through Gibraltar, as we wrongly stated (world, Mar 8).

March 6, 2021
In a story published in the Magazine today we incorrectly report Ana Brnabic, Serbia’s prime minister, describing how she waited in vain to meet the foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt at a conference in London in 2019. The conference she was talking about was in 2018 and the foreign secretary who was too busy to meet her was Boris Johnson. We apologise for the error.

March 5, 2021
We wrongly said that indoor service in pubs and restaurants is likely to be allowed in mid-April (news picture caption, Mar 4). This should have said outdoor service.

March 3, 2021
The architect who built the public lavatory in Tokyo with transparent glass walls is not Kengo Kuma, as we stated (world, Mar 1), but Shigeru Ban.

March 2, 2021
We stated that St Albans has no dedicated police station (news, Mar 1). This was incorrect. We should have said that St Albans has no police station with front counter service.

March 1, 2021
We wrongly reported (news, Feb 27) that Professor Sarah Purdy and another pro vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol had signed a letter of support for Professor David Miller, who has been accused of antisemitism. The pro vice-chancellors were among senior academics to whom the letter was copied. They were not signatories. We apologise for the mistake.

February 23, 2021
It was the Roman Catholic diocese of Shrewsbury, not Salisbury (news, Feb 22), which commented that George Spencer’s conversion to Catholicism had horrified his 19th-century contemporaries.

February 17, 2021
Reporting a study by researchers at Columbia University, we said in a headline that “ten Mars bars a day will boost memory” (News, Feb 16). This was based on a remark by the author of the research. We have been asked to make clear that the study looked at cocoa flavanols rather than Mars bars specifically, and that it is not possible to infer a causal effect.

We wrongly said that Leysin American School in Switzerland is owned by an American company. It has been owned and operated by the Ott family for three generations.

February 11, 2021
On November 12 we reported on comments by Tim Martin, of JD Wetherspoon, and said “ ‘Go work at Tesco’ was his employee-friendly cry” (Bitter Truth, Nov 12). In fact Mr Martin told employees that supermarkets needed staff in the pandemic. Staff offered that work could take it and that they would be given priority at JD Wetherspoon should they return. We are happy to make that clear.

February 9, 2021
Sven Badzak attended Wetherby Preparatory School, not Wetherby Senior School as we said (News, Feb 8). The error was introduced in editing.

February 8, 2021
Our headline, “Children’s cancer surgery cancelled as hospitals feel pandemic pressures” (News, Feb 2) was incorrect. As the story made clear, children’s operations have been cancelled but not children’s cancer surgery.

February 6, 2021
In our article “Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has £200m British property empire” (News, Jan 30) we wrongly claimed that Mr Roman Abramovich had lost his UK citizenship and reported that he had made his money selling state assets after the fall of the Soviet Union. We accept that Mr Abramovich did not lose UK citizenship, as he never held UK citizenship and the assets sold had first been purchased from the State. In reporting wider concerns regarding individuals with links to the Kremlin, it was not our intention to suggest that Mr Abramovich himself was connected to corruption, organised crime or human rights abuse in Russia or elsewhere. We are happy to make this clear and apologise to Mr Abramovich for any misunderstanding. In view of these errors we have agreed to make a donation to a charity nominated by Mr Abramovich.

We reported on suggestions by Italian Prosecutors that Professor Abdelrahman of Cambridge University has failed to co-operate with their investigation into the death of the student Giulio Regeni (News, Dec 14, 2020). Cambridge University maintains that Professor Abdelrahman has co-operated fully with the Italian investigation, having answered questions on three separate occasions and voluntarily providing material. We are happy to make clear their position.

February 4, 2021
We stated that new-build flats in Edinburgh’s Western Harbour development cannot be bought or sold until their cladding is removed (Scotland news, Jan 30, Feb 1). This was incorrect.

February 3, 2021
The Edinburgh International Conference Centre and the P&J Live venue in Aberdeen can vaccinate 21,000 and 6,000 people a week and not each day as we stated yesterday (News, Feb 2).

February 2, 2021
The Supreme Court did not rule that fees to bring tribunal cases were unlawful, as we said, but that the fees in force were set at a level that was unlawful because it prevented rights conferred by employment statutes from being exercised (News, Feb 1).

February 1, 2021
A statement by Lord Bates (“National security is the prime legitimate concern of government. If the government felt the need to extend the Atas scheme then I would support it.”) was wrongly attributed to Lord Browne of Madingley (“Foreign Office security vetting will target China academics ‘likely to spy”, News, Jan 30). We apologise for the mistake, which was introduced in editing.

January 30, 2021
We said that the president of the Royal College of Physicians did not disclose details of a plan to sell books from its historic library until the proposed sale was reported by The Times (news, Jan 8). The college has since informed us that the proposed sale was discussed in a Q&A session at the end of its AGM last September. We are happy to put this on record.

January 28, 2021
The photograph of Nathan Evans, singer of sea-shanties, was taken at Newhaven Harbour in Edinburgh, not Airdrie as we stated (Times2, Jan 26).

January 27, 2021
We said that Robert Jenrick “greenlit the first new deep coalmine in Britain for 30 years” (Comment, Jan 26). We have been asked to make clear that he did not intervene but decided not to challenge Cumbria county council’s approval of the project.

The correct number for the helpline for HMRC’s “Chief” system for customs is 0300 322 9434 (letter, Jan 25).

January 21, 2021
We wrongly quoted Ian Whittle (“Jet pioneer Frank Whittle had a Blitz beater in 1938”, News, Jan 4) as saying that “the RAF had refused to entertain [his father’s] ideas until the war was upon them”. Mr Whittle in fact said that it was the Air Ministry that had refused to support turbojet development. We apologise for the error.

An error was introduced in editing to a letter on building emissions (letters, Jan 16). The construction sector alone is not responsible for “about 45 per cent of UK carbon emissions”. That figure relates to the whole built environment, ie the energy consumption of buildings as well as construction.

Priti Patel’s comments about closing borders to control Covid were made in a video call with the Conservative Friends of India, not with the Conservative Friends of Israel as we reported (News, Jan 20).

January 15, 2021
We have been asked to clarify that while Jimmy Page has in the past objected to planning applications by his immediate neighbours, he is not involved with residents’ objections to developments currently being carried out in Ilchester Place, Kensington (News, Jan 13). We are happy to make this clear.

We reported Professor Mark Woolhouse, a member of Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid-19 advisory group, as saying that Scotland “was tracing less than half of cases” (Scotland news, Jan 14). He has asked us to clarify that he was not talking about contact tracing, and that the word he used was “finding”, not tracing.

January 12, 2021
We wrongly stated (news, Jan 9) that the High Court had ruled that Pippa Knight must die in hospital. In ruling that her treatment should be withdrawn, the judge, Mr Justice Poole, specifically allowed for her to be allowed to die at home as an alternative to hospital.

Napoleon died on the island of St Helena, not Elba as we stated (picture caption, news, Jan 11).

January 7, 2021
We wrongly stated (news, Jan 6) that “more than one in 50 Britons have caught Covid in the past week”. The Office for National Statistics figures in fact estimate that more than 2 per cent of the population would have tested positive for Covid- 19 in the last week, not that those infections took place in the past week

January 6, 2021
In our interview with Nicholas Hoult (Times2, Jan 5) we confused two tsars of Russia. Catherine the Great was married to Peter III, not to his grandfather, Peter the Great.
The Victoria and Albert Museum has 19,000 objects from the former East India Company museum, not 90,000 as we stated (news, Jan 2).

January 4, 2021
We wrongly stated that UK travellers will need an international driving licence in addition to a UK driving licence in EU countries such as Germany, Italy, Greece and Spain (“Can I travel freely in the EU after Brexit?”, Jan 1). An IDP is not needed to drive in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein. If a driving licence was issued in Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey or the Isle of Man, an IDP may be needed in some EEA countries.

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See corrections and clarifications from 2016 and 2017