Article: PUTTING IT RIGHT

The Press is committed to accuracy and talking with its readers. Putting It Right is a forum for clarifications, corrections, trainspotters, pedants, perfectionists, etymologists, polymaths, people who make mistakes and those who never do. From August 26 to September 1, The Press published 1052 stories.

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The In Brief item in Friday's paper headed "Murder charge" contains three errors in the four words on line nine, which reads: "Delamere in Ollivier St".

It should read "de la Mare in Olliviers Rd".

Alan Tunnicliffe spotted this.

The correct spelling of the man's name was not established by the police in the first hours of their investigation; we established it only when the death ...

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