• A photo caption that referred to “the lighthouse at Whitburn, Sunderland” lost its way: the lighthouse pictured is in Roker, Sunderland, more than a mile south of Whitburn, which itself is not in Sunderland but over the borough border in South Tyneside (Cold snap brings a blanket of snow across the north, 1 December, page 10).
• Homophone corner: “I went to concerts … I was enthralled by the velvet base of the African American Paul Robeson at the city’s Hippodrome” (Recalling Coventry’s great cultural heyday, 11 December, page 28).
• Other recently corrected articles include:
After snakes and grubs, Kezia Dugdale steps out of the jungle into the bearpit
Blue Planet II: from octopus v shark to fish that crawl, the series’s biggest discoveries
Coventry named UK city of culture 2021
Senate strikes tax exemption for college linked to Betsy DeVos
