A few items arising from election results covered in last Saturday's paper:
• A story gave 1998 as the year that the Liberal Democratic party was founded in the UK; that was meant to be 1988 (No to AV ... Yes to a whole new constitutional conflict, 7 May, page 1). Elsewhere, a piece said Newcastle's council result saw a 22% swing to Labour from the Liberal Democrats; this should have been 10.8% (Turfed out of town halls, bitter Lib Dems point finger of blame, 7 May, page 5).
• Regarding the Welsh assembly election outcome, comprising 40 constituency seats and a further 20 seats elected from five regions (each with four seats): a graphic was published without some final updates to certain regional outcomes. In the Mid and West Wales region, two seats were colour-coded blue for Conservative wins when they should have been red for Labour. In the South Wales West region, two seats were coloured green for Plaid Cymru when the outcome was actually two Tory wins, one Plaid and one Liberal Democrat. And on an accompanying list of individual constituency results, Llanelli should have been coded red for a Labour win, not green for Plaid Cymru (Elections: Welsh assembly, 7 May, page 33).
• In the list headed Elections: Scottish parliament – 7 May, page 32 – Aberdeen Central should have been shown as a Scottish National Party win (from Labour), not as an SNP hold.
• In last Saturday's financial section, a piece on Nat Rothschild's progress as a financier described Peter Mandelson's new venture, Global Counsel, as owned by marketing group WPP. Global Counsel has asked us to make clear that WPP has a minority equity stake in Global Counsel and provided seed capital along with additional benefits in kind including office space (Nat Rothschild leaps from the Bullingdon to join billionaires' club, 7 May, page 45).