• Looking at the extent to which universities are eyeing the revenue-boosting potential from foreign students' fees, an article listed the London School of Economics along with Oxford and Cambridge universities as places charging more than £18,000 for laboratory-based subjects in 2010. Instead of LSE, that should have been Imperial College London (Any currency?, 24 May, page 6, Education).
• A picture caption showed a coastguard rescue helicopter based at Stornoway, but went on to locate the town on Orkney instead of the Isle of Lewis (Can anyone rescue the coastguard?, 23 May, page 12, G2).
• The US government's debt ceiling was correctly identified as $14.3tn in the headline and first paragraph of a report, but unfortunately reduced to $14.3bn in a later reference (US government hits £14.3tn debt ceiling, 17 May, page 27).
• Poking fun at various homespun adages, a column said: "Take heart. Next year, perhaps, will be a good year for the roses, as the great philosopher Elvis Costello put it." While Costello gave voice to these sentiments in his 1981 version of A Good Year for the Roses, the original philosophising culprit was country and western songwriter Jerry Chestnut (Surrealism and the fine art of summarising, 23 May, page 16, Sport).