• Describing some of the things that happened after Japan's arrest of a Chinese skipper whose trawler rammed a Japanese coast guard vessel in September 2010, a piece said that four Japanese executives of the Fujitsu corporation were detained while working in China. The four actually belonged to Fujita, a Japanese construction company working in China. Elsewhere, the piece meant to say that the US marines who might be relocated from Okinawa to Guam numbered 8,000, but a digit was dropped so this became 800. (Reluctant Okinawa on the frontline again, 7 March, page 28).
• Looking at the subject of funding when it comes to the Yes and No campaigns in the alternative vote referendum, an article noted that Electoral Commission rules "allow two official designated campaigns" to spend £5m each. But in the absence of officially designated campaigns, the story went on, spending by any single organisation would be limited to £500,000. To clarify, that applies to single organisations – other than political parties; the latter have separate limits based on their share of the vote at the last election, meaning that any of the three main parties can spend more than £500,000. In addition, our piece said that "a yes campaign cannot be designated if the no campaign does not seek to designate itself". Designation lies, of course, with those supervising the process; what our shorthand was aiming to convey was that one side or the other – the no campaign, in the example we gave – might not seek to be designated (Rival AV campaigns pledge to disclose their donors before referendum day, 19 February, page 17).