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Our editorial on Margaret Thatcher was incorrect to state that Labour had considered including the sale of council houses in its 1959 manifesto "but had decided not to upset its activists". That manifesto did have a commitment to allow council tenants to buy their homes. However, the policy was dropped from the 1964 manifesto after Anthony Crosland and Peter Shore argued against it. ("The great disrupter was bound to bequeath a divided nation" (Comment, last week, page 36).Our editorial on Margaret Thatcher was incorrect to state that Labour had considered including the sale of council houses in its 1959 manifesto "but had decided not to upset its activists". That manifesto did have a commitment to allow council tenants to buy their homes. However, the policy was dropped from the 1964 manifesto after Anthony Crosland and Peter Shore argued against it. ("The great disrupter was bound to bequeath a divided nation" (Comment, last week, page 36).
"We've seen sense on measles" (Comment, last week, page 39) said: "By the end of last week, there were 693 confirmed cases of measles in Powys." The 693 cases were in Swansea, which is in West Glamorgan."We've seen sense on measles" (Comment, last week, page 39) said: "By the end of last week, there were 693 confirmed cases of measles in Powys." The 693 cases were in Swansea, which is in West Glamorgan.
A caption to a photograph accompanying a story on the surge of interest in Pompeii fuelled by the British Museum's new exhibition said incorrectly that it showed "the mummified remains" of one of the victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The object shown in the picture is a plaster cast of the space left inside the once superheated volcanic ash where a body had been virtually obliterated. A mummy is a body embalmed or naturally preserved ("Pompeii is hottest ticket for British tourists", News, last week, page 13).A caption to a photograph accompanying a story on the surge of interest in Pompeii fuelled by the British Museum's new exhibition said incorrectly that it showed "the mummified remains" of one of the victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. The object shown in the picture is a plaster cast of the space left inside the once superheated volcanic ash where a body had been virtually obliterated. A mummy is a body embalmed or naturally preserved ("Pompeii is hottest ticket for British tourists", News, last week, page 13).
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