For the record

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Contrary to our Profile last week, Martha Lane Fox no longer has a government role as UK digital champion; she resigned in November 2013 but continues to chair Go ON UK, a charity she launched in April 2012, which, as the piece said, focuses on improving the nation’s digital skills. We also listed Channel 4 among her board appointments but her term ended in 2011. (“Tech champion who wants everyone to embrace the net”, last week, page 34).

We were wrong, in text, map and headline, to describe the city of Idlib and its surrounding province, which fell to Islamist groups led by al-Qaida’s Nusra Front last week, as being part of President Assad’s Alawite heartland. Alawites live west of Idlib, along the Mediterranean coast of Syria. (“Islamists seize city in Alawaite heartland for first time since civil war began”, News, last week, page 21).

A piece on Howard Schultz, founder and chief executive of the coffee shop chain Starbucks said he “won an athletics scholarship to Northwestern University in Michigan”. Northwestern University is in Illinois; Howard Schultz graduated from Northern Michigan University. (“Can Starbucks really be the face of ‘conscious capitalism’ in the US?”, In Focus, 22 March, page 38).

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